Stuff…

It was back to work with a bump today after a nice long weekend (in the UK there’s always a bank holiday the last weekend in August). I’m on the final few days before I head round the far side of the world to see my sister and so I’m frantically...

Creativity

I posted this on twitter a while back. In case you don’t follow me, and because it’s easier to find again here, I decided to post it. John Cleese on creativity: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGt3-fxOvug]

Deadline

I’m about 25k into my next novel, I expect the first draft to come in around 140k*. It’s taken me about a month to get this far, for someone who was banging out whole first drafts in 8 weeks** only a year or two ago this is kind of appalling. You know how...

Urban contemporary

I’ve been making steady progress on the current work-in-progress. I’m averaging around 5-7k a week at the moment which is forward motion, even if it’s not at the rate I would like and I’m starting to feel like a proper book is coalescing....

Missing the point

I took the unusual step of reporting a fellow Twitterer the other day. I reported them because they were sending threatening messages of vile and violent manner to another user, who I follow, and who has had problems – I believe – with these kind of users...