I thought my Crash read-through yesterday morning went well. Having done it so often now I get a sense of where I'm hitting the right notes / tone / emotion and where I'm not. Just under six weeks before the performance and half the tickets already sold... I may get a chance to 'dress rehearse' … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 1st May →

So Twitter have made another one of those knee-jerk random decisions and with no notice at all withdrawn the ability of WordPress users to automatically post to their Twitter accounts. Facebook took a similar, but slightly less extreme measure, a year or two ago (only allowing you to post to a page). This is what … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 30th April →

After all the emotion on Thursday at the Athol Fugard event, perhaps inevitably yesterday was something of a damp squib. Just about the only meaningful thing I managed was some work on "C", the rest of the day being sacrificed to domestic 'life' things which had to take priority. But that's what life does, right? … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 29th April →

In many ways yesterday was something of a 'monster' day, four chunks of time spent doing very different things - one of which was astonishingly moving... The first two of these time-segments - me, alone, working in my study - were pretty run-of-the-mill: a read-through of Crash, and some drafting of "C". In terms of … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 28th April →

For the record, this is day 118 of consecutive posts..! So what did yesterday - day 117 - deliver? A new podcast episode for a start. "The Big Red Button" is taken from my short story collection, An Irrelevant Piece of Sky, which is published next month. The podcast - WalkingThruFire - can be found … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 27th April →

It is both interesting and understandable how writers fixate on word count when producing longer works of fiction. What else is there by which to measure them? And it's a useful boasting chip! I know I've referenced word count in this diary to demonstrate progress. But the thing I find more meaningful is number of … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 26th April →

Yesterday was the best day for a week in terms of time spent on projects. I had hoped for as much, but when you come out of a flat spot - for whatever reason - you can't be certain how long it will take you to get going. Do you find that too? Oh, and … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 25th April →

After three unproductive days, I finally managed to put a few miles on the clock yesterday. It was a great relief. The one thing I'd planned to do - more drafting of "C" - took place as expected. With the word count now at around 42,600, I'm about two thirds of the way through. I … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 24th April →

Sleep! It's so underrated! The highlight from yesterday was waking up this morning with the bed looking like it hadn't been slept in. I moved so little in the night! I've probably not fully caught up, but I feel fired-up enough to kick on. Indeed, I've already had an idea for another Villanelle, those really … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 23rd April →

What's the best way to describe yesterday given I did no work worthy of the name? Well, in a way, quite good. Not because of the lack of work, but rather the vestige of a return to something like sleep. I started to feel a little better during the afternoon and by evening the hacking … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 22nd April →