Peter Gabriel once said, “Deadlines are the things we move through on the way to finishing.” I should learn not to post a time limit here. In Blog-land, like in the Real World, time does not conform to its usual form. At least that’s what I tell myself. After all, Mr. Gabriel took ten years [...]

Was briefly interrupted by celebrations for the now two-year-old star of an earlier post. And, what do you know? I re-read the final draft of my old story and found a heap of errors i apparently missed on the forty thousand other times I’ve read it.
Should be pretty quick to fix though and then it’s [...]

One second, Sherry sits on the plastic chair looking a bit bored, kicking at the doughnut bag crumpled into a ball at her feet. The next she’s stomping around the room demanding that Lionel Brownstitch face her. Cameras swarm from nowhere and Flymo wonders briefly if the producers maintain crews on standby for any kind [...]

Was up late last night making lists. Lists are an extremely important part of preparation. At least they will be this time. I’ve often attempted lists, chapter summaries, timelines, all sorts of crap, only to find that when I sit down to actually write something, I forget all about them and do the whole wild [...]

So, if this blog is really about the process of writing a novel, I should fill you in on what the story is so far.
This is not a brand new story I’m writing here. The idea has been bouncing around my head for a good couple of years and I have a draft in progress [...]

What is probably the final draft of the last novel has been dispatched and is off to agent and publishers for the truly business side of writing. That gives me time to reassess the story I had been working for most of last year. Frankly it kind of sucks.
I should be more specific. The writing [...]