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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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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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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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 …
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