Well, New Year is over and it’s back to the boulder, although I’m having trouble deciding which boulder to push. I’ve got a lot of works in first/second draft that could use a clean up and need to get published, but I’m having a hard time deciding which. This is, unfortunately, a common problem of …
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Slow, Slow, Quick, Quick? No.
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist. Norman Mailer I’m beginning to think a career change may be in order. Apologies for the radio silence, but I’ve been busy been ill …
Navel Grazing
“Time and Tide wait for no man.” Ancient observation. Yet here I am, dawdling in the doldrums, whilst the surf of life smashes shale into granules of sand. I’ll wager you didn’t expect me to be waxing lyrical this early, but I’m in the mood for bloody awful poetry as I wade through the tide …
Awards Season?!
A heartfelt thank you to Monica from TinyTotsPoetry for nominating me for the Liebster Award, which is a badge of honour for up and coming Bloggers. She’s been nominated herself and congratulations to her! 🙂 Part of the Award Rules are to answer a series of questions and nominate twelve other Bloggers – this is …
Dried Up
I’ve finished the Synopsis for The Ares Gambit and it’s a whopper – these should only be 500 -1000 so I’m told, or ‘a couple of pages’. Well, I’ve got a 1,600 word monstrosity I need to pare back, shaping and trimming it into something that will appeal to an agent. And yet. I’ve been …
All Change
Tides of Azhov was progressing well, but I hate it. It’s into two chapters now, (about 7,000 words – which is about 1166 fathoms, but I digress) but only the first chapter is any good and I am not sure if I’ve managed to capture the character of our Protagonist yet. I just can’t inject …
A Dead Zone
“I’m sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel like melting the typewriter into a bar of steel and clubbing yourself to death with it.” – Richard Matheson And here it is. That period where I want to get on with something, …
Mightier Is The Pen 