Nicky Bond's Blog, page 31
March 9, 2020
LeezaCon Can't Be Far Away...
On Saturday it was a year since Leeza McAuliffe Has Something To Say was published. It's flown by and it's dragged. It depends on my mood as to whether I feel like it's ages ago or if I'm still caught up in the frenzy.
Happy birthday to this gal!One of the things I've learnt since getting my books out there, is how far apart the peaks and troughs really are. The ebbs and flows. The highs and lows. Back in the day, I think I assumed that if someone had written a book, then that book would be...
March 2, 2020
Land Mines and Other Pointless Similes...
Right then, it’s book update time. I could tell you were desperate to hear where I’m up to. It was written all over your face.
The yellow chair of joy. All editing
activity has taken place here. This
photo also includes exciting redacted
content. (All right, all right, I'll tell you.
It's boring filing cabinets, OK? Now
get lost and leave me alone.)If we split the editing process into three stages, I’ve definitely entered the worst part. You know the bit I mean? The,...
The yellow chair of joy. All editingactivity has taken place here. This
photo also includes exciting redacted
content. (All right, all right, I'll tell you.
It's boring filing cabinets, OK? Now
get lost and leave me alone.)If we split the editing process into three stages, I’ve definitely entered the worst part. You know the bit I mean? The,...
February 24, 2020
A Small Stuff Influence-ee...
The author, Val McDermid, was once interviewed by Graham Norton on his Saturday morning radio show. He asked whether, as a full-time writer, she could still read at the same time. The implication being that when working on her own writing, it might be hard to keep her own style distinct from the authors that she read at the same time. Her answer was clear.
'Some writers say, 'Oh I can’t read when I’m writing, I’m worried about it infecting my style'. But I’ve never felt that insecure about my...
February 17, 2020
The Name's Bond. Nicky Bond...
Twitter trends come in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes they're celebratory, sometimes they represent a shared television experience, other times, they're properly tragic. The death of someone far too young has dominated Weekend Twitter, and a variety of hashtags showing support, grief, and outrage have been listed. This post isn't about that. It was written before that particular news broke. But as it references Twitter trends, it seemed random to upload it without referencing how...
February 9, 2020
The Irony of Forgetting the Hippocampus...
The Bond family's WhatsApp group is an interesting place to hang out. A hotch-potch of info, gossip, and news. (It's arguable there are no distinctions between each.) It combines videos of the nieces and neph, weekly pub quiz rankings, football bantz, and important news. It's literally the only way I communicate with several members of my family, and when I've had reason to keep my phone in my bag for a couple of hours, there's always 30+ messages waiting for me. Often with no real...
February 3, 2020
Oops. My Inner-Reader's a Dick...
It's only Eurovision keeping our continent together now.
Let's not take that for granted, FTLOG.So much happened last Friday, didn't it. January 31st 2020. Cast your mind back, if you can even bear it. Did you wave your cheap Union Jacks with the worst of them, or did you force yourself away from the racist hole of social media? Were you bulk-buying your celebratory tea towels or instead compiling the pro-EU charities to whom you'll donate your Oxford comma-less 50ps. Either...
January 27, 2020
Normaling is Fun...
Here's a NSFW question if you can handle it. Treat it rhetorically, please. I have no need for actual answers when I'm merely trying to illustrate a point. Brace yourself, Prudes, here we go...
Have you ever been in the middle of having lovely consensual sex in an upstairs room when you hear someone's key in the front door?
HAS THIS EVER
HAPPENED TO YOU?Look, sorry for going straight to the nub of the issue here. Except I haven't yet, that's still to come. Still, you know. Sorry. But,...
Have you ever been in the middle of having lovely consensual sex in an upstairs room when you hear someone's key in the front door?
HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED TO YOU?Look, sorry for going straight to the nub of the issue here. Except I haven't yet, that's still to come. Still, you know. Sorry. But,...
January 20, 2020
Where to Begin Next...
Lolz. It isn't. It just takes work.The skive is over. The routine is back. I'm out of bed, I've a complete draft of Book Three printed off in front of me, and it's time to make it read like the quality literature that it probably is deep down. But how exactly am I going to do that? Good question. How exactly indeed. Well, one thing I can say with confidence right now is that I'm aware of the limitations of the story so far. The plot might unfold the way I had planned, and the characters...
January 13, 2020
The Joy of Being Empty Headed...
This is an exact representation of me right now. Except I am not a turtle.
And I have no pizza.It's week two of my three week break/skive* and I am relaxed. The story so far is that I'm trying to forget what my first draft of Book Three looks like, so I'm 'chilling out' and 'having fun' now that the business of December is over.
And it has been fun so far. Not setting an alarm in the morning is a treat. No guilty urgency about word counts or the number of hours spent tinkering with a...
January 5, 2020
Warning: Creative Juices Depleted...
Hello war with the Middle East,bush fires, Brexit and EVERYTHING ELSE.We're a week in. Everyone coping so far? Yeah, I know world events haven't exactly eased us in gently. Huge chunks of Australia continue to burn. World War Three was trending by the 3rd. Best not check back in with the news. Not for a while, anyway.
Focusing on the mundane might be all that is possible. What can we fill our time with if we're going to attempt to ignore the impeding doom around us? Well, it's different...
