Oh look, I haven't posted here in nine months. I've been having trouble logging on at home, then wifi died on the Mac and I've not really had time to follow through ( Read more... )

I've written at least 11,000 words on this novel already. You'd think 1,100 would be easier.

136600 / 120000 words. 114% done!

New version of Chapter Two - Chapter Three is a maze of black ink.

Six months ish since submission, and the process of rewriting begins. Meanwhile, the next book and the next book proposal lurk in the wings. Deadline March 14. Let's start with Chapter One...



139900 / 120000 words. 117% done!

So close... I reckon I have 200 word to add to end the project and I was going to keep going; but my bulb has gone ping, and I need to read some Ballard stories before I write those 200 words. I could adjurn to a room with a light bulb but I think that's my cue to get the fuck to bed. It being gone 1.40. I am unlikely to have time tomorrow (today) ( Read more... )

The problem with thinking, "I'll have lunch when I've finished this bit", is that you always find another bit that just needs finishing first. So before I investigate Eric Woolfson - or is it Wolfson - I shall break for lunch.

Just completed chapter thirteen, so that's four chapters drafted. It's at 7,500 words and more on It's Alive needs to go in (I thought I'd done that, but maybe I'm thinking of taking the notes...). I need some bits about Doctor Who, and to sprinkle the word "metanarrative" through the chapter a little more frequently. What's odd is the way the ( Read more... )

I really need to get writing. I know what I need to write. Am I writing?

No.

I had hoped that this year I could get involved in NaNoWriMo, and for the couple of days I was writing it was great, and reminded me how much I miss that part of being creative ( Read more... )

Well, another Monday not spent at the shining library on the green hill (or whatever Chandler's phrase is I'm mangling), as the Java Kernel busting VLE was desperately slow in uploading this week's lectures and the electronic submission page, and I had a pile of essays to virtually glance through and comment. With one thing and another, I only ( Read more... )