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 …
Thank you, entertainment
It will come as no surprise that in the last ten months, I have been absorbing a lot of "media". I've taken not just to reading but also to listening to audiobooks through BorrowBox. I've got access to many streaming platforms. My Spotify Wrapped 2020 was an ungodly number of hours of podcasts and songs …
7 ways to leave your Shudder
This week, desperate to see the Zoom-based British horror film, Host, I took out a free seven day subscription for Shudder, Amazon Prime’s horror extension. Having already completed Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime in lockdown, I figured it would be a good idea to ween maximum content from the subscription before I cancelled so here …
