Working with outlines, doing away with time
The other day I said I’d go and meet H at 1230. We arranged this a couple of hours...
Read MoreThe vague feeling of love
(A short exercise in “putting the problem into the writing” based on a character from my novel.) The vague...
Read MoreTalking about your work
A fair few months ago I had a conversation with a colleague about my novel. I’d just finished the...
Read MoreBlog Hop: The Novel
Thanks to Em Strang (http://emstrang.wordpress.com/) for tagging me in the BLOG HOP. What is the working title of your...
Read MoreModelling the books
I am in love with words and books and stories. One of the greatest frustrations is a bad book,...
Read MoreWorld Vegan Day (of the Dead)
“If you could plant one seed,” David asks Esther, “what would it be?” He didn’t mean the seed of...
Read MoreApril is the hardest month
April, it seems, is the hardest month. I come out of the blocks in January committed to making the...
Read MoreNotes on Stucture: Andrew Miller’s Pure
Andrew Miller’s Pure was the 2011 Costa Book of the Year. Set a few years before the French Revolution...
Read MoreMurakami on Writing, Running
The thing I notice most about novelist Haruki Murakami’s style is this: a sense that when I pick up...
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