Waiting for feedback, remembering what it’s like to be a freelancer and the ghosts of clothing mishaps past and present.
What is done, is done, and cannot be undone. Or it can’t if you post the badger.
In which the author wibbles on about querying agents, and is happy that the Royal Mail has no Apple-Z or CTRL-Z function. Or does it? Please say it doesn’t.
Tease me, tease me
Update on the re-draft and preparations for the agent submission process.
Rien ne va plus
After much faffing, huffing, displacing and stressing, the second, agent-ready, draft begins.
Words, words everywhere and nary an editor in sight
Writing about the editing process, and pondering the ironic feedback loop of how much better this post would have been had I edited it….
Mouldy peach sunrise
I wake and decide to go for a chilly early morning 5 mile run along the Thames. I jog along dead man’s beard pavements covered in frozen chewing gum and dog turd
Learning the process
Hello blog. It’s been a while. I wasn’t very well. And real life is just so ‘gosh darnit’ real at times. The novel remains unedited. My diary remains unfull – I am practising my positive spinnery in anticipation of paid marketing work. Hence not ’empty’ – merely ‘unfull’ – which suggests that at any moment… Continue reading Learning the process
The waiting soup
Patience required. Ingredients missing.
Finished, but not ‘finished’ finished
On the excitement or humdrum caused by finishing, but not ‘finishing’ finishing, the novel.
Writer as cartographer
In which the author compares himself to a cartographer, a small hairy mammal, and talks about towels.