Saturday 17th June 2017 Today has been a tough day. Some days writing flows like silk, and some days you’re in a trench engaged in a land battle. Today has been the latter. After not getting any work done yesterday, today I’ve been trying to make up for lost time. I wanted to edit a [...]
Friday 16th June 2017 Today was an odd day. I’m not sure if I ate something that disagreed with me, or I just naturally feel tired, or I’m mentally stuck on something but I spent the evening feeling totally exhausted and have decided to go to bed early. Worse still, I’ve not made any progress [...]
Tuesday 13th June 2017 There’s part of me that feels like The Climb is very repetitive at the moment. For what seems like a long time (but in reality is probably 3 or 4 days) I’ve been reporting on the edits, how I find it tough but also fun and how I am soldiering on. [...]
Tuesday 6th May 2017 I’ve been editing in an entirely new way today. Usually, when I have a major edit to do, I’ll start at the beginning and work my way towards the end. I like working that way as it gives me somewhat of a sense of security. It means that I can check [...]
Monday 5th June 2017 You know that meme where someone is returning back to work after holiday wondering “how they got on without me?” They open the door to the office to see a post-apocalyptic wasteland, people running around on fire, others pulling their hair out screaming, you get the picture. This was my day [...]
Thursday 1st June 2017 Today was the first day resembling a return to normality. I woke up in my own bed and returned to the day job. Of course, now that Chasepalooza is over, I have a mountain of things to do – from the mundane such as unpacking all my gear and dealing with [...]
Thursday 11th May 2017 Rather oddly, a few days before I travel to Canada and the US, I feel the need for a health kick. My diet has been pretty good for the last year but the major thing I did was give up caffeine. For the first couple of weeks I was a total [...]
Wednesday 3rd May 2017 The post-novel blues continued today. In fact, if anything, they got a little worse. It’s possible that health-related stress contributed to bringing me down, but I felt very despondent regarding my writing: everything I’m working towards isn’t going to happen, good things that happened were a mistake, I have a false [...]
Friday 28th April 2017 As you know, I like to write each edition of The Climb at the end of the day and then edit the next day. In the interests of full disclosure, this one was written at the start of the next day (for reasons you’ll find out). My current schedule is leaving [...]
Tuesday 18th April 2017 It always amazes me when people actively get in the way of your aims. I have a hard job understanding why. It’s almost as if they resent the fact that they acknowledge your progress. They’ll actively throw roadblocks in your way, sometimes under the guise that they think it will help [...]
