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June 2, 2015
The First Draft Of Recital Abigail
Well finally I’ve finished the first draft of Recital and it’s come in at just over 73,000 words. That is to say, I wrote the last word of the book and it was the 73659th. The most exciting thing about this is that, regardless of the fact that there are massive gaps in the narrative and whole sections where I’ve said things like ‘something happens here’, I actually managed to make it to the end. I’ve printed it out to have a read through and it feels nice to hold something physical. Flipping...
The First Draft Of Recital
Well finally I’ve finished the first draft of Recital and it’s come in at just over 73,000 words. That is to say, I wrote the last word of the book and it was the 73659th. The most exciting thing about this is that, regardless of the fact that there are massive gaps in the narrative and whole sections where I’ve said things like ‘something happens here’, I actually managed to make it to the end. I’ve printed it out to have a read through and it feels nice to hold something physical. Flipping...
October 28, 2014
HORROR? WHY NOT? A LIFETIME OBSESSION WITH THE MACABRE: PART TWO.
For a few years during my childhood my mother accidentally went out with a man who thought that sending me to boarding school was a really good idea. From the age of nine to thirteen I spent most of the week wondering who I would be going to spend the weekend with, as the man also thought it was a good idea to live in France leaving me unable to see my mother for weeks at a time. It was down to a handful of relations and school-friend’s families to look after me from Saturday to Sunday during...
September 22, 2014
The Recital First Draft Cometh – Writing Can Finally Commence
Recital. So, I’ve researched. I’ve sketched. I’ve blocked. I know who is who, what is what, and I’ve got a fair understanding of most of the why and I have a spreadsheet the size of Manhattan showing about 80% of the when. Which means, after two false starts and a lot of other stuff in between, finally I feel that I can sit down and write my ‘real’ first draft.
This isn’t how it all started. It started when I sat down to write Recital and got to about ten thousand words before I realised ther...
The Recital First Draft Cometh – Writing Can Finally Commence
Recital. So, I’ve researched. I’ve sketched. I’ve blocked. I know who is who, what is what, and I’ve got a fair understanding of most of the why and I have a spreadsheet the size of Manhattan showing about 80% of the when. Which means, after two false starts and a lot of other stuff in between, finally I feel that I can sit down and write my ‘real’ first draft.
This isn’t how it all started. It started when I sat down to write Recital and got to about ten thousand words before I realised there...
August 30, 2014
Musical Inspiration – Recital Novel
One of the nicest things about writing my first novel is that’s it’s centred around music, and sourcing the music for the novel, as well as listening to it while I write, is a great source of musical inspiration and has helped propel the actual writing.
The time period, although not necessarily obvious in the writing, spans the last hundred years or so but some of the music is far earlier than that as the protagonist, initially at least, has rather conservative tastes. I thought I’d share som...
Musical Inspiration – Recital Novel
One of the nicest things about writing my first novel is that’s it’s centred around music, and sourcing the music for the novel, as well as listening to it while I write, is a great source of musical inspiration and has helped propel the actual writing.
The time period, although not necessarily obvious in the writing, spans the last hundred years or so but some of the music is far earlier than that as the protagonist, initially at least, has rather conservative tastes. I thought I’d share some...
August 15, 2014
Twitter Litter – My Top 20 Twitter No-Nos For Authors (and anyone else promoting something on twitter)
I’ve been off Twitter for a while, but since I resumed book writing mode I’ve been back with a vengeance, following and reading about what other authors, fans and reviewers are doing these days and how they use Twitter to interact with each other and the wider world.
It’s not pretty.
Twitter today is borderline unbearable. Every other author appears to think that the rules of engagement were written for everybody else to follow, and are confusing conversation with exclamation. It’s like being a...
August 12, 2014
Horror? Why not? A lifetime obsession with the macabre: Part One.
Deciding on the horror genre for my first novel has come as a bit of a surprise to some of my friends; I’m an upbeat kind of guy, I don’t restrict my wardrobe to black and I’ve not had one goth girlfriend. I’ve been known to wear some horrifically loud shirts over the years, but that’s about it; I’m just not that well known for being scary.
The truth is, I’ve been into horror for as long as I can remember. One of my earliest memories of witnessing a horror film was when, aged six, my mother l...
Horror? Why not? A lifetime obsession with the macabre: Part One.
Deciding on the horror genre for my first novel has come as a bit of a surprise to some of my friends; I’m an upbeat kind of guy, I don’t restrict my wardrobe to black and I’ve not had one goth girlfriend. I’ve been known to wear some horrifically loud shirts over the years, but that’s about it; I’m just not that well known for being scary.
The truth is, I’ve been into horror for as long as I can remember. One of my earliest memories of witnessing a horror film was when, aged six, my mother le...
