by Neil | Jun 24, 2011 | Diary, Writing
This is a short one. As am I. The month’s been markedly more busy than I intended and so progress, while steady, has been slow. By far my main focus is still the second draft manuscript for Forever. The structural changes continue to ripple through the rest of...
by Neil | Jun 2, 2011 | Diary, Writing
The second draft of Forever is going well, albeit taking a little longer than expected. Slow and careful wins the day… One of the principle changes I made early on in the drafting process meant that I’ve had to do some shifting around to graft that change...
by Neil | May 26, 2011 | Diary, Writing
Ideas can flash from anywhere. I mentioned before that I was blocked on the idea front for a while and my relief that these are now starting to bubble up again. Thing about ideas is that you can’t control when they occur but that moment of clarity that it is a) an...
by Neil | May 20, 2011 | Comment, Diary, London
Social media bleeds into meatspace far too often in London. Try as I do, I still fall foul of the repeated error, usually on my way into work half asleep, of seeing people I know through either twitter or blogging and reacting as if I know them in the real world when...
by Neil | May 17, 2011 | Diary, Writing
It’s been something of a relief to me that in recent weeks I have started to have new ideas. It’s something of a dirty little secret but over the last twelve months I’ve really not devoted any time to this* as I wound up tying myself in knots trying...
by Neil | May 15, 2011 | Diary, Thoughts, Writing
For the interested I remain deep in the guts of the second draft of Forever. Things are going well albeit a little slower than I would like. Loose threads… The difficulty of structural changes is that they are always more significant than you think. In this...
