Back on the post Instant gratification, or, Don’t blog tired., I was whining about having to take all 50000 words of the precious NaNoWriMo novel and turn them from a peculiar assortment of babble and plot-holes into a coherent, err, novel. Possibly doubling the word count in the process. (Ed, (as in pal rather than […]
This is, of course, where I retrospect, elegantly, no doubt while clad in satin pyjamas and sipping espresso from a Wedgewood coffee cup.
I won’t disillusion you, the reality is far too squalid for a sunlit New Year’s morning. Let’s just say, Rita Hayworth does not belong in the same sentence as Vicks.
And I do not […]
Let’s try this once more, with the caveat that whatever I write now will be not much like whatever it was I wrote before. Mea culpa for writing when tired and bah-humbuggery in the first place. And so on.
It is now not quite three weeks since I stopped typing, punched the air above my head […]
Hello, Editor here. I know some of you don’t like me much - thanks for ruining my suede loafers, by the way - but you’ll have to lump it. I am here to announce the unprecedented success of my very own little writery person.
Reed hit the 50000 word finishing tape at approximately one a.m. Greenwich […]
Bloglily and litlove are doing all these cool poetry meme things and I can’t join in. I have already overcommitted myself socially this week and I. Have. No. Time.
But I really really want to. I haven’t written a word about (or a word of, for that matter) poetry all month and it’s beginning to hurt.
But […]
The other night, as I fought and tore and wrenched myself closer to the 30000 word mark, my husband came over, bringing me a cup of tea. He stood behind my chair and I leaned my head back against his manly solar plexus and sighed. He stroked my hair.
‘How’s it going?’ he asked.
I waved my […]
Look! I’m very nearly exceedingly half-way there! 24205 words!
[Er, Reed, honey, it’s day 20 - Ed]
Yes, but I’m practically half-way there, which is very cool indeed.
[Yeah, verily, my feet are freezing. But you’ve already used up two whole thirds of your days allowance.]
So I’ve only got 25000 words to go!
[In ten days.]
Well….
[That’s 2500 words a […]
The thing is, I don’t like my main character much. I don’t even get the luxury of loathing the poor sap. I just… don’t like him very much. He looks interesting, he has an interesting job and an interesting scar and an interesting heart-rending dilemma to be getting on with, but he seems to have […]
Writer’s block.
I’d swear, but I haven’t the imagination to make it worthwhile.
This is not beginning with quite the flair and panache I was hoping for. Day four of 30, I should have written 6666 words already. I have written 4850. Underperforming just a tad, that’s me.
[Never mind that now. You have an entire first chapter in which one of the main characters doesn’t appear at all, […]
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