June 10th, 2008
One of my major stumbling blocks in quenching my creative writing thirst has been style. Not only has it taken years to come to terms with my personal style, it has also been a journey to understanding how style can affect the worlds we create in words. But a deliberate choice of style has its [...]
May 26th, 2008
It’s official, now that I am well on the way to completing Persistent Spirit, I can say I officially do not enjoy writing. But hand me the chance to this it full-time, and I’d bite your arm off faster than a starving mongoose with a genetically enhanced disposition for arm-biting.
It’s not the writing itself that [...]
April 11th, 2008
There are two ambitious, inexperienced, but capable writers under this roof. Each has their own projects, and each project is so very different in style, scope, and planned result.
Traveling in the car a few weeks ago, jEN and I got talking about our individual writing projects. The discussion mainly centred about how different our methodologies, [...]
April 4th, 2008
I have been writing less lately, around here and elsewhere. TableRappers is an experience in wading through treacle right now. I could not call this a case of the infamous ‘writers block’, it’s more a case of discovering a segment of the story that was less well formed in the first draft. This has resulted [...]
March 26th, 2008
So there it is, as of right now, I just clocked up over 50,000 words in the writing of TableRappers - Persistent Spirit. And they are pretty good words.
Which equates, according to this particular popup information dialog, to almost 140 pages of a printed novel. Of course, that all depends on the size of [...]
March 9th, 2008
We have discussed the financial struggle faced by the majority of published writers in a recent post, but the subject came back to the fore after a short piece in the April edition of Writers Magazine.
The piece covers the story of Catherine O’Flynn, and author who had her book, What Was Lost, rejected by fourteen [...]
March 8th, 2008
The only thing you need as a writer is stamina because you have just got to be able to finish your book. Most people can’t. That’s the whole trick of it. [...]
February 28th, 2008
The above is a shot of what is sat on the corner of my desk right now - and it brings me joy. Despite only relatively recently discovering this hefty tome, I can quite honestly say it is the single most important tool for writing after a pen and paper - I place this book [...]