After much faffing, huffing, displacing and stressing, the second, agent-ready, draft begins.
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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.
Dreaming of an end
I had a dream where I pitched my novel as a series of author-based equations. Which I don’t think is the done thing, dear boy.
My name is Im Probable Nonsense. You killed my vanity. Prepare to die.
Sigh.
National Navel Gazing Month
As the Great Eric once said, when the cats follow the sardine tin, it is because they wish to perform on the Miaow Factor.