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 | 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...
by Neil | Jan 2, 2012 | Diary, Personal, Writing
I’m not doing New Year’s resolutions this year. The difficulty I have with them is that constructing useful ones is quite challenging because of the time scale is relatively large, habit forming is a slow process frought with distractions and breaking them...
by Neil | Dec 31, 2011 | Diary, Personal, Writing
2011 is done. Shit. Insert sands of time cliche here. There are lots of reason to dislike 2011: financial meltdowns that roll on and on, riots, large swathes of the world still embroiled in conflict, large swathes of the population still living in abject poverty that...
