by Neil | Feb 20, 2012 | Diary, Personal, Writing
You have good weeks and bad weeks. That’s just the way it goes sometimes. Last week was a bad week. My schedule got messed up, I wound up writing at awkward times of the day and with large gaps between sessions and I didn’t get as much done as I would have...
by Neil | Feb 12, 2012 | Diary, Personal, Writing
I appear to have inhaled January. Most careless. I’m trying to review my progress with a bit more care and attention than I did last year to avoid feeling like large chunks of the year have just slid away like wet cake. When you have lots on – day job,...
by Neil | Feb 8, 2012 | Diary, Personal
I spent last weekend in North Wales at the SFX Weekender. This is the obligatory round up post. 🙂 On the whole I prefer smaller events, as they offer more opportunity to chat with old friends and meet some new people. SFX may have changed my mind offering as it does a...
by Neil | Jan 29, 2012 | Diary, Personal, Writing
The new project: my slipstream fantasy crime novel, working title: All That Glitters, has begun. I spent the last week revising the synopsis, adjusting the outline and making sure I knew enough about the characters. There’s a point when all of that planning...
by Neil | Jan 21, 2012 | Diary, Personal, Writing
I’ve spent most of the last fortnight working on the planning, outline and characters for the next novel length project I want to tackle. As I’ve mentioned, this isn’t my default way of working but I want to see if it produces a cleaner first draft...
by Neil | Jan 9, 2012 | Diary, Personal, Writing
A week into the New Year it’s perhaps rash to make bold assertions but I think I’m off to a reasonable start: I’ve completed the first draft of the short story I mentioned in my last post and have the beginnings of a plan. If you recall I was testing a new way...
