Tag: writing

A little bit of literary help

The not-really-NaNoWriMo novel is progressing apace. After a slow (ie mostly knitting, watching TV, seeing friends and dog-walking) weekend, it was back to the studio yesterday, and I finished the fourth section of ‘Surrounded By Water’, and passed the 35,000 word mark. (Before you get really impressed, I need to remind you that I did [...]

Room with a view

I have a recurring dream, or at least, a recurring-themed-dream. I had it again last night.
The dream goes like this. I am living in a place that I know to be my home, even though it’s not a place I recognise from real life. Sometimes I live there by myself, sometimes with Alan, sometimes with [...]

Start as you mean to go on

There are lots of jokes about writers and how they like to put off the evil moment where they need to Actually Do Some Writing. My favourite:
Why don’t writers look out of the window in the morning?
Because then they’d have nothing to do in the afternoon.
So when I decided it was Time To Sort Out [...]