On The Treadmill
Part of the plan is to identify all the moving parts. Part of the plan is to move each moving part towards completion. You change the plan as necessary, and you continue to keep it all rolling along. Consistency is the watchword.…
Keep It Regular
Part of the plan is to identify all the moving parts. Part of the plan is to move each moving part towards completion. You change the plan as necessary, and you continue to keep it all rolling along. Consistency is the watchword.…
Words are important. The anatomy of language is something it is vital to understand for a writer.How do you find a voice? Well, you listen to yourself, and as you develop it develops. But how do you best translate that onto the…
Do you ever sit there and try and dream up new forms of writing? Give yourself rules by which you must operate in order to challenge your writing? My friend came up with a 434 word limit for flash fiction, and it…
It is hard not to come home some nights and just get stuck in the scroll. I watched a lot of TV, because I could engage with it, and it helped me think some, but getting stuck into the work didn’t happen.…
The year end gets log-jammed with Best OfsĀ and obituaries. It can be a weird mix of nostalgia and grief, and I am not sure I want to buy into that notion that I am cutting off a gangrenous limb and waiting for…
I am writing in different ways and in different places at the moment, but I am keeping it in. Nanowrimo was a little bit of a bust, with five novels started, but none of them getting anywhere near the finish line. I…
I am aiming at 5 different novels this year, and that way I might drag one over the finish line. I have only ever finished one actual target of 50,000 in a month, but I have several novels fairly far along in…
Hard work without a purpose seems like hard work. Why am I doing this? In what direction am I struggling? What is the end goal of all this labour? I do not know, so I drag my feet. Taking your life into…
I think I got accused once of writing cat and cuddling poems, or some such thing that tried to relegate me and my relevancy to a weird nether-region of the literary landscape where writers of doggerel and greetings cards laugh at the…
It really is hard sometimes to divorce the work from the artist, and there is a point where you wonder whether if you took everything in your home that had a problematic association and burnt it, whether you would have anything left.…