by Neil | Sep 21, 2008 | Personal, Random, Thoughts, Writing
I’ve been trawling around trying to decide what to do next in my writing. On finishing TSG* I started something new, something completely different and wrote a first draft of a story (Ice) that will either be hacked to pieces to short story length or will remain...by Neil | Sep 9, 2008 | Fiction, Personal, Seemed like a good idea at the time, The Woodsman, Thoughts, Writing
The Scarred God has now been read by two of my three test readers and the feedback is positive. I’ve got a bunch of inevitable corrections to do and I’m not sure it’s standing out enough from the genre that the idea germinated from, I was keen to try...by Neil | Sep 6, 2008 | Family, Hay-on-Wye, Personal, rambling post that goes all over the place, Random, Thoughts, Writing
No flash this week. Actually, no anything this week. I am unspeakably lame. I’ve been pretty much snowed under with work and not much energy left to do anything other than my minimum word count. Subsequently on the writing front I’ve only just managed to...by Neil | Aug 19, 2008 | A fistful of Neils and a sprinkling of John, Personal, rambling post that goes all over the place, Random, Thoughts, Wales, Writing
If a forest is empty and a tree falls does it make a sound? I’m sure most people are familiar with that old trope but what if you have no memory of something that happened to you. Would it still have been you? What am I withering on about? Today I had what...by Neil | Aug 18, 2008 | Life, Personal, rambling post that goes all over the place, Thoughts, Writing
I haven’t been around much at all because I basically hit the wall last week. No I haven’t gone back to cycling and hit anything, I’m just exhausted. Consequently it was about all I could muster to get up, go to work and get home again. I slept for...