by Mel | Nov 22, 2010 | Life, Writing
I think the year has officially reached the completely-crazy-lead-up-to-christmas part where the to-do list and social things and the year’s goals and a thousand other things start to form a hectic sort of tangle to conquer before it’s time for time off....
by Mel | Dec 5, 2009 | Writing
Finishing a book does strange things to your brain. I tend to write the ends of books fast and prefer, where possible, to revise fairly fast too (though there are multiple passes at this). For the first draft the endgame speed comes from the part where I finally see...
by Mel | Sep 15, 2008 | Random thoughts
Warning: potentially long post ahead. Like I have said before, it’s my birthday tomorrow and maybe it’s that (ie I’m a Virgo in Virgo season) or maybe it’s being back at work and needing to remember everything I’m supposed to know and be...
by Mel | Mar 30, 2008 | Random thoughts
You know, there’s something about hitting the last third of a book, even a very first drafty draft of a book like this one, that makes my brain go a little crazy. Normal people do not wander around the supermarket doing page count calculations in their heads...
by Mel | Nov 30, 2007 | Square eyes
Okay, who put the world on fast forward? Another week just flew by. Make that almost two weeks. I suppose when you throw in a weekend at the beach, parental birthdays, lots of work, christmas cake and pudding concocting (christmas – that can’t be right,...