Saturday 30th December 2017 I didn’t feel too bad this morning considering how much I’d had to drink at the party, but I was glad when some of the others who’d stayed over decided that we’d go to a greasy spoon. I’m not sure whether it was just the hangover, but I think that was [...]
Tuesday 5th December 2017 It seems there’s a new bug going around and I’ve come down with it. Over the past 24 hours, 2 of my friends have come down with this light flu. You’re basically bunged up and your muscles and joints ache like they do with a normal flu. It seems to pass [...]
Saturday 23rd September 2017 I had planned to have a busy day tidying the house. Given all the tournaments and edits of recent weeks I actually had a day where I didn’t have to do anything. But despite doing nothing for 3 days earlier this week with my cold, it seemed my body just wanted [...]
Friday 8th September 2017 It’s tempting to think that whilst I’m sat here playing World of Warcraft and tracking friends who are chasing Hurricane Irma, that nothing is going on with the writing career. But the fact is that whilst I try and recharge, the manuscript is currently with my agent. I got an update [...]
Wednesday 6th September 2017 Well my friend replied to my email with the comments on her story, so she’s still speaking to me. But in a few IMs she did raise a good point. How do you develop a thick skin when it comes to someone critiquing your story? You should blog about it, she [...]
Sunday 27th August 2017 The final stage before I send off a manuscript is what I like to call manuscript prep. It’s the stage where I go and run a spell checker, fix small formatting issues and similar things that need to be done before sending the manuscript off. I’ll check things that I’m worried [...]
Friday 18th August 2017 If it’s possible to both love something and hate it, then I have reached that stage of the novel. I made great progress today. So great, in fact, that I constantly stopped myself to double check I wasn’t becoming slapdash due to an overriding urge to get the novel done. I [...]
Saturday 29th July 2017 Whereas yesterday I woke from a nightmare, this morning I woke to a revelation. The novel starts in the wrong place. I’ve been stressing over the early chapters of Black As Knight. It’s probably been the biggest challenge throughout the creation of this novel. I rewrote it a couple of years [...]
Wednesday 12th July 2017 For some reason I’ve been consumed by note taking today. And not taking notes but the process of taking notes. I’m not sure if this is driven by a need to be more organised after the disruption of the last week or not but I realised that there must be a [...]
Tuesday 4th July 2017 I’ve been doing some delicate editing today. The first couple of chapters are the real challenge in this edit. I have to make some subtle changes to blow the protagonist’s agency through the roof. It basically means that his plans have to be a little more solid. Of course, this means [...]
