by Mel | Mar 24, 2008 | Square eyes, Writing
Yay! 200 pages. Hopefully that means a downhill slide to the end. And then a honking big revision. I keep getting glimpses of what I want the book to be like. Odd times when I feel the weight of it or can almost smell it – like walking into the room a few hours...
by Mel | Mar 23, 2008 | Life, Writing
Melbourne has turned on a lovely warm Easter Sunday (after three chilly days) and I have walked, napped, relaxed and just had a lovely 12 page scene fall out of my head onto the page. Which puts me offically over half way if this draft turns out to be my usual short...
by Mel | Mar 22, 2008 | Writing
Some progress. Still pondering the ultimate solution but writing in between stuff while that happens. So: Progress – Witch 1 New pages – Five Intriguing things – Chinks in denial Annoyances – Really sure what I thought happened next isn’t...
by Mel | Mar 18, 2008 | Writing
Hooray, it’s finally cooled down. Last night the temp stayed around 27-28 degrees all night. Not good for sleeping. But now we have lovely cool evening with breeze. And it’s meant to be nice for the rest of the week. Only two days of which are left before...
by Mel | Mar 16, 2008 | Cool stuff, Writing
You know, writing and the way your brain puts together a story can be endlessly intriguing. Like today. I came back to a scene that was stalling a few days ago, to tweak it because I tweaked an earlier scene. And this is a scene I wrote the start of maybe three or...