Monk Quixote

Not even a chocolate mousse has alleviated my petty *meh*ness. I haven’t found myself the time to write for a week and while work has been stressful and involved longer hours than of late I think it’s simply the same old same old doubts about the plotline kicking in again.
I’m tempted to simply finish [...]

Hmm.  As before, the last time I tried to keep a blog while writing I find that as I get more and more absorbed into the story, I find less and less to entertain my one reader with.  Reading about plot technicalities when you don’t know the plot, the characters or anything really must be [...]

I’m very pleased with how Monk Quixote (the novel, not the blog) is going.  While it’s still disconcerting how inconsistent things can become when writing in a non-linear fashion (reminding myself what a character does or doesn’t know at specific moments, what they’re wearing, in a surprisingly large number of scenes how inebriated they are….) [...]

Ten days holiday – sum total written = Zero.  Nicht.  Nada.  Nul points.  Do not pass Go and on no account collect 200 beer tokens.  Or any other form of tokens, whether Tolkein tokens or smoking tokens or rooting tooting tokens.  Or Dokken.  If you know who they are, you need shooting.
Two hours on a [...]

I made a teensy bit of a fool of myself today.  Now this, in itself, is not news.  Far from it.  What was news was that it involved punching the air while travelling on a packed train.  Monk Quixote made his first appearance in Tom’s Universe I.  And he made sense of everything.  Themes that [...]