At the moment I’m rewriting ‘Surrounded By Water’, my first novel, and it’s going well. I’m about 45,000 words in, which I think is about half way, and I’m loving the process. This new version of the novel has a stripped-down plot and the narrative point of view has changed; and because I already know [...]
I was going to start this post by saying, ‘here’s my favourite joke about writers’, but actually it would be more honest to begin with, ‘here is the only joke about writers that I know’. (Please feel free to add yours to the comments section.)
Anyway:
Why don’t writers look out of the window in the morning?
Because [...]
Well, my novel is finished.
Writing it has been quite a ride. It has some pretty dark themes, some funny bits, and a bunch of characters who, despite my avowed practice of ‘writing 1000 good words a day’, have had me in the studio churning out 4-5000 words in an afternoon as they moved through my [...]