I’m a fanatical seeker of little notebooks. The sort that you can put in a pocket and take anywhere with you. I particularly like the ones that have an elastic strap that holds them together. I discovered Moleskine notebooks a few years ago when I bought one at the gift shop near Bunratty Castle in … Read more
Well, I have stared writing the 50,000 words of novel for the National Novel Writing Month. It’s going painfully slowly. I was struggling to find the motivation to get the thing moving along steadily. I had set up a separate weblog to post some of the material I create, and to post comments as I … Read more
There are days when the words don’t want to come forward. I surf across weblogs on the net (some are over on the right) and find some bloggers who post every single day. How do you do that? There are days when life gets in the way. There are days when emotions get in the … Read more
The plans are emerging for the Novel Writing month coming up. According to the rules it’s OK to plan and prepare outlines before the writing starts. (Never forget that rules are made to be broken anyway!) I’m thinking that I will do some more work to pull together what this whole 50,000 words is going … Read more
I signed up for the National Novel Writing Month initiative today (www.nanowrimo.org). I have only the vaguest idea as to what I will write about when it starts on 1st November, but then I think that is partly the point! I thought I would produce a sequel to the first novel which I wrote – … Read more
Across poetry sequences, pieces of fiction and other creative processes, there are a number of key characters and images that repeat. These are: – Blue – Alice – Aslan – Kingfisher – Water These have a deeper range of meanings, and are ‘characters’ that I can work with through diverse contexts. Bringing them back again … Read more
National Novel Writing Month This looks really good. National Novel Writing Month – or NaNoWriMo for short. It starts on 1st November and participants have until the end of November to write a novel of at least 50,000 words. The full description is on the site – it’s about setting the standards low to make … Read more
I have just worked out how to get images into my blog. So, I am posting details of the first two booklets that I published last year, together with images from the covers. If you are interested in seeing these booklets drop me an email (email address here). I’ve also put these details on a … Read more
I’m filling my head with the deranged sounds of The Residents and People Like Us, both of which are so incredibly diverse and innovative, whilst still keeping a strongly specific sound, so that you know that is who you are listening to. I think I have written about both of them in earlier entries to … Read more
Stuck – stuck – stuck. Frozen in activity. Thanks to the fact that I am exhausted, and the weather is terrible, and I should be doing a million things. It’s the pause before a flurry of action…