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 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 | Mar 27, 2011 | Diary, Writing
The second draft of Forever is underway now. Everyone tackles redrafting differently but I thought my method might be of interest to other writers and the handful of interested readers who like my stuff. It’s a variation on my short story process but with a few...
by Neil | May 23, 2010 | Writing
I started noodling on the idea that became The Scarred God in 2005, sat on a balcony in Italy, trying not to worry about my grandmother who was lying sick (dying as it happens, I didn’t know that at the time) in a hospital in Wales. The project was really...
