Yesterday, I spent some time with the cool older relatives of my partner. It reminded me of conversations I would have with my grandparents (god rest their souls). It left a slightly melancholy feeling with me that I wanted to explore a little by celebrating my grandparents. My nan passed away when I was too …
A day at the races.
Even before we had passed through the less-than-stringent security checks at the gate, I had a feeling our day out was not going to be as expected up until that moment. I don’t know if it was in the stumbling walks of those patrons ahead of us (at 2pm) or the general air that it …
An update
I've failed to post anything to my blog in over a month. There's a very good reason for this. I've been obsessing over something else. Some writing. A bigger THING than anything I've done before. Depending on the edit, it's between 134k and 136k. For the longest time, I've had a goal in mind for …
Review: Helford Honeymoon – Davey Hal
When I sat down to talk to Davey Hal about his new EP, the excitement in his eyes told me that this was a project beyond the work he had shared before. Only some of that was down to the contact he’d had with the Du Maurier estate. The rest is because Helford Honeymoon is …
It’s not finished…. it’s finished.
A few weeks ago, I mentioned the project I had been hard at work on. I am pleased to announce that the latest draft of it is now done. What follows is a lengthy edit process. Taking each page at a time and reading through it until I am satisfied that every word is in …
Am I still writing?
Last week, a friend asked if I was still writing and where they could read more of what I've been doing. While I love that people are aware of my passion for writing and know that it's what I want to be doing more than anything else in the world, I'm not currently in a …
Failing Camp NaNoWriMo
At the start of April, I was bragging about the work I was undertaking, intent on writing 90,000 words in a month. I updated my blog about it every day and then I went radio silent for three weeks. I can't completely cover the reasons for this. All I can say is that something else …
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day 12
In my usual way, I am being far too harsh on myself. Today I hit the 30k mark but I know I'm five thousand words behind where I expected to be. If I had kept the marker at 50,000, as is the goal for anyone else doing the National Novel Writing Month challenges then I …
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day Eight
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 …
