Having read back what I have so far, I’ve given myself a bit of a dilemma. I think Martin (is ‘affairee’ a word?) needs to be charming, cheeky and appealing, but should he be the villain based on his behaviour when younger at University? I’m …
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What an unexpected evening! Being slightly grumpy from the mild achyness of my second jab (and a little disappointed they didn’t give me a lollipop) I was genuinely excited to hit 40 followers on Twitter, so did a little tweet about that. Bugger me, all …
Read MoreWriting Process 3
Because I don’t want to get ahead of myself, I note a few things I need to research, as a reminder, realistic costs and contemporary references, and some details on calorific intakes. I’d decided early on this would be a quirk for Tiffany in her …
Read MoreWriting Process 2
I now have Tiffany born in 1968, at University in 1986, the fateful brief encounter in 2000, and Chloe naturally being born in 2002, after the affair is over, making her 18 in 2021. This pleases me aesthetically and structurally, and I have a note …
Read MoreWriting Process 1
So, I keep my promises and said I’d blog a bit about my process of writing a new book, so here goes. Everyone will have their own process of course, and every book is different, but when I have a new idea, my most common …
Read MoreScenes that just don’t fit
I just wanted to mention the setting and background for a scene which I’ve wanted to put into four different stories now, but sadly it just doesn’t seem to fit with them so has never been used. I tried to find a way of using …
Read MoreWorks in Progress
In the Twittyverse authors often talks about their current work in progress (WIP), but I find that a really difficult one to answer, as it really depends on the day of the week, or even hour of the day. When I came back to organise …
Read MoreShow Me the Money
This is something fellow writers must ask themselves as I did. How much should I spend on my writing? First tip, by no means innovative or shocking to say, but don’t use Vanity Publishing. Simple. These days if all you want is a good looking …
Read MoreThe Mock Song – John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50453/the-mock-song You may not know John Wilmot’s work, and he’s probably best known today for his crudity, but writers as diverse as Aphra Behn, Voltaire, Hazlitt and Germaine Greer all found something unique and admirable in this arch satirist, and his contemporary translations of the …
Read MoreDisconcerting
We seem to have a short series of less than chirpy blogs here, but as this series of posts is following me on my writing journey (like an Albatross stalker with a hard-on and a thought about how my eyeballs might taste) I guess that …
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