Graham Holliday's Blog, page 5
October 22, 2015
drafting
I’ve taken quite a different approach to writing this book. I divided it into stages. I sometimes wonder whether this was wise. The first stage was months of research and making contacts. This was followed by six weeks of circumnavigating Korea. During those six weeks I ‘wrote’ the book in it’s most basic form in […]
August 5, 2015
1985 sizes too big dreams
A-side: Are Your Dreams At Night 1985 Sizes Too Big? I wrote a ‘review’ of a Spacemen 3 gig that I went to in 1985. It’s very long. About 12,000 words. It is the result of several months of an-hour-here-and-an-hour-there ‘hobby journalism’. The reaction has been incredible. And very positive. It was a great gig. […]
June 19, 2015
words
Word count for books, and attempted books, since I started writing them in September 2012. [Not counting blog posts, tweets and notebooks that never made it to the big screen.] Eating Việt Nam = 88,785 Eating Việt Nam discarded words = 22,567 Korea = 61,107 Novel = 87,241 Other Novel = 17,046 Yet another novel […]
May 4, 2015
80,000 words
The easy bit is now finished. Nine notebooks were filled. 38,805 words were typed into a phone or a computer and saved into Scrivener. 70 interviews and field recordings were made using the Voice Memo app. Many miles were travelled. Almost 6,000 photographs were taken. A mountain of receipts were collected. Interesting things were eaten. […]
