So a great big wodge of more or less free time has opened up this evening and instead of devoting my time to changing the tense of my novel (ooh!), I’m instead helping my three year old visit the sandman.

Don’t get me wrong, as far as distractions go this is about as good as they [...]

So the third draft is on. I’ve done a re-jig of the text which requires (gulp) a change of tense in great big chunks of the story.
I’ve always thought writers, like drummers, have a natural rhythm. If you’re talking music my natural rhythm is a slightly skewed 5/4. Read into that what you will.
As far [...]

I sat down tonight for the first time is a while to face the novel again. Deep breath, et cetera.
It’s always a bad sign when I avoid getting started and even worse when I look at the manuscript utterly confused as to what I should do now.
It sort of like writer’s block I guess. I [...]

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I’ve left the manuscript fallow for a couple of weeks.
There are a few pretty good reasons for this (aside from laziness). The beginning of the year is generally a busy time for submissions, grants, and general crap. Writing is a business after all and its eternal conflict is that no business gets done when you’re [...]