A visual post for you today, for tEXt me. I know this isn’t a ‘mood board’ in the traditional sense, more reference and less mood, but I thought you might be interested in some of the things you’ll find in my new novel. I’m no …
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Countdown to Launch
Nervous times. Will anyone buy it? Is it any good? Does anybody care? Did I have a typo on page 147? Lots of questions at the minute, along with the scariness of a launch. When you get to that date when strangers may finally read …
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Fate can be a bitch. And some things just can’t be foreseen. In my new novel, there is a song which plays an important role in the plot, as being a sepcial one sung between daughter and father before the latter passed away. And you …
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So I’m delighted to report that I finished the first draft of the new novel today. It’s very rough in places, needs a lot of work but at 60,000 words it’s a good length for a first draft. I know there will be significant parts …
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Honey I’m home! Did you miss me? Okay, I’ll just pretend you said yes and noticed I wasn’t here. I’ve been looking at different things, short stories mainly, tinkering and editing so I can come back to the main book fresh. Main thinking today is …
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Wow, a lot has happened in the World of my novel! I’ve passed 42k words, lots of plot strands have fixed themselves, the entire story is mapped out, much wine, a couple of awkward sex scenes, Di and Alex now play a role and so …
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Now here’s a thought for today, which I don’t know if I’m going to take forward. When I went for my constitutional stroll before writing this, I was pondering how to bring Nick a bit more alive, and whether to include his backstory. He’s been …
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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 …
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