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On the subject of “The Sisyphean Task of Novel Writing” I suspect it would have been better as a flow chart, but that was beyond my technical capabilities 🙂

So, today our friendly local vicar, Mark, in full knowledge of what I write, has asked me to go into our local church primary school on Wednesday and talk to the 5-11 year olds for 10 minutes about being an author.  Preferably working something about God in there too. I’m thinking I’ll say something about…

Woohoo, I’ve finished chapter 19!  I have a strange plan with 21 chapters, but already suspect that I’ll need to renumber everything because some chapters are very short and some are very very long.  Nevertheless, a large part of the climactic battle is behind me, everyone now knows whose side they’re on and what they’re…

Well, I was right about yesterday having to be paid for.  Today I managed to make my word count, but only at the expense of feeling rotten, eating constantly and being irritable when my family asked me to do completely outrageously selfish things like say hello to them, answer the phone, or cook dinner. It…

was a good day for me.  I wrote 2,605 words and finished chapter 18.  (As you can tell from this single sentence, I’m not doing NaNo properly.  I’ve got 110,000 words of this book written already, and this is just giving me the push I need to get over the ‘I don’t really want to…

(As copy-pasted from Joyful_molly.) Ship in Need: Vote for the “Falls of Clyde”! 30 October, 2010 Hampton Hotels has a “Save-A-Landmark” program to support refurbishment of national landmarks. The “Friends of Falls of Clyde” have nominated this wonderful national historic landmark for a grant. A desperately needed grant, I have to add. Alas, the whole thing…

COUNTERPOINT: DYLAN’S STORY is the story of Dylan Rutledge’s life, from the age of eighteen until his early thirties, and of the two men whose lives were intertwined with his at different times and in different ways. At eighteen Dylan Rutledge has one obsession: music. He believes his destiny is to be the greatest composer…

Just not the type I really should have focused on. I finished the big stuff on Rose’s dress, but as you can see, the shoulders are so wide that they fall off on one side.  I’ll have to tweak it somehow – maybe a dart in the centre of the back? – so that the…

My first memory is of exile – a cabin in the the boat that was carrying us away from our home in Northern Ireland.  But I was born in N.Ireland only because my family was there temporarily with my father’s job.  So when my own family followed the same pattern, moving frequently, following Andrew’s work,…

Can anyone recommend any great books featuring elves which I really ought to read in order to catch up with what has been done by novelists writing about the realm of Faerie recently?  I’m trying to put together a society for the elves in Under the Hill, and it occurs to me that – since…