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 …
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 …
