Author: ivan

The end of a long hiatus. And the beginning of a new dream.

Hello blog, my old friend. I have – with equal degrees of non-success, kept a blog for going on 10 years now. I have never really built a rhythym of posting, or a readership, or really got what I wanted out of it. Initially, I wrote a blog because I was lonely. And it’s difficult… Continue reading Generally inefficient – hiatus

See you when the next novel is complete.

Chastisement to self.

On how I stopped writing for writing’s sake, and instead learnt to write better, by reading, listening and thinking. Hard stares and ginger beer all round.

I have decided, with a typically male lack of need for scientific, or indeed, observable, corroboration, that I have writer’s woe.

In which I describe losing my London Book Fair virginity. Quick, embarrassing, and not eked out to make it value for money. No change there, then.

Homicidal thoughts on the towpath, out for a run in the sun. Disturbed by Transition, by Iain Banks.

On dynamics within plot, and how Mankell’s Wallander is a superior crime drama.

Musing on characterisation, and getting the right blend of child/adult and monster/alien in my fiction.