I've recovered from the position I left myself in yesterday, which is an incredible personal achievement considering how busy I've been all day. I don't know how much of Chapter Seven will remain because even as I was putting it together it felt like filler but it's all working towards something. At the end of …
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day Seven
Well, I've fallen behind. It was only a matter of time. I have been doing well for a week to keep up with my insane expectations but I'm calling it a night at 2,400 words. I'm too tired and I shouldn't have had three beers before trying to make the last thousand words, while on …
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day Six
I started out well. Got over a thousand words done after my morning exercise but before work, but then the day got away from me.So I am now up until at 11pm, drinking white rum and making my wordcount because I am insisting on getting this done to my own goal, rather than the 50k …
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day Five
Well, I feel like I've cracked it. I've often said that I do my best work before 9am and that was certainly the case today. I got up at six (very quietly because it's a Bank Holiday and I don't want to be killed), worked out for half an hour, showered, dressed and wrote two …
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day Four
Well, I'm still to learn from the last few days. Over the Easter weekend, it has been difficult to carve out an exact time to write. I know that I can get a thousand words done in half an hour if I really set my mind to it and there isn't much outside research that …
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day Three
Another late start, I left it until after dinner to get any writing done. Chapter Three was a complete departure from the characters that I had introduced in the previous two days/chapters so it was an easy roll into the world of the chocolatier and a chance to get some outside ideas down on the …
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day Two
Having struggled to reach my target yesterday, I was pleased to find the time today to get a chunk of writing done and am now at the six-thousand word mark, which is just scratching the surface but is at least still on the target for the rest of the month. My plan is to write …
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day One
It's been a month or so since I updated my blog. It felt like a good time to go for it as I have been bitten once more by the writing bug. For April 2021, I will be attempting something stupid, a 90,000 word first draft of a novel that I am currently calling Death …
How Do You Feel?
Today is my birthday. For months, in lockdown, I've been working on an album, my fourth, and it seemed like today was as good a day as any to allow it to see the light of day. How Do You Feel? comprises of ten songs written over the last fifteen years. It's entirely possible that …
Feelgood, Inc.
This week, Mark Kermode covered feel-good films on his podcast. It got me thinking about the films that I turn to when the world is a little consistently too much. If you need an example of a time when that might have been the case, now would be a good time. I read elsewhere that …
