It may have taken far longer than anticipated (as usual), but as of thirty seconds ago the second draft is now done. There’s a certain satisfaction in tapping out the final words of the final scene, something the first draft never quite had since I was dissatisfied with that first ending as always a placeholder.
Still [...]

Hello. I’ve redesigned the web site. Why did I do this? I don’t rightly know, except that it always used to bother me that the journal and the shop were always completely new sites under the one umbrella. When I started blogging, I realised I could set the whole site up around a blog and [...]

Here’s a perfect way to avoid working on your manuscript. Do a complete redesign of your web site.
In fact this redesign has been on the cards for ages, probably six months or so since I discovered I could run the whole site from a Wordpress blog with various plugins and addons.
It’s coming along nicely too, [...]

Notes for part three, part four
Apologies to Stanley Donwood and Dr Tchock for the doodles at the bottom.

Notes for part three, part three

Notes for part three, part two.

Notes for part three, part one

No, not a misprint. The quiet nights of December are a good space to stretch your legs on the couch and do some serious lashing over a keyboard. This is now the third successive new year’s I’ve spend tapping at a keyboard.
Don’t cry for me. I have young children anyway. I hit it pretty hard [...]