by Mel | Jul 3, 2010 | Writing
I feel like I’ve got hold of the new shape of this book now. The weight of it is sitting right in my head and I can tilt it and turn it and see the whole picture nearly. Sometimes writing feels like hiking up a heavily wooded trail. You get glimpses of the...
by Mel | Apr 12, 2010 | Life, Writing
>Yes, I am indeed alive. Bad blogger. But I have been suffering from a horrible cold which decided it should bring its friend razorblade throat and consequently have done little worthy of blogging for a week. Catalogues of pills and potions and tissue count are not...
by Mel | Mar 13, 2010 | Tech-o-drama, Writing
>Thanks to the gods of communications who decreed that fixing my landline = breaking my adsl I am without Internet at home and can only get online via the iPhone (have I mentioned how much I love my iPhone?) So I’ll be tweeting a bit and checking emails but...
by Mel | Mar 8, 2010 | Random thoughts, Writing
Well, I didn’t quite make it to 40k which was my goal for the weekend, thanks mainly to a fit of the tireds yesterday and a fit of the generally uninspireds today. But I did still manage 7 pages today so that’s not a complete write-off. If I do six...
by Mel | Mar 4, 2010 | Writing
If my wip were a person right now it would be a teenager. A slightly sullen, earphone wearing, far-more-interested-in-texting-their-best-friends-than-talking-to-someone-as boring-as-the-person-writing-it teenager. It’s at that awkward stage. It happens every...