April. Can you believe it?! Yesterday the dominant activity was more work drafting "C". During that I had another wonderful example of how brilliant the brain is... In terms of the location in which my narrative is set, I was struggling a little with how to make a credible link between the last episode and … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 1st April →

Another tremendous Contextual virtual poetry reading event yesterday with my five readers doing us proud - as they always seem to! We had 23 people attend the hour-long meeting. As ever, there was a range of styles and themes on show. Occasionally I find the admin for these events a little onerous - but the … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 31st March →

It seems that drafting "C" is an unstoppable activity at the moment with yesterday's addition work taking the word count over 24k. It's amazing what happens when you latch onto a story you want to tell, and with characters you find interesting. There is a bizarre - and wonderful! - compulsion about the process; something … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 30th March →

A really good 'Write-on Ripon' session yesterday with a significant variety of work read - and some good discussions following on from those. Most enjoyable. I read another short chunk from the draft opening of "C" which seemed to go down well. The group seems to have found a heartbeat with attendees now regularly numbering … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 29th March →

As planned, yesterday saw me start to build out my fourth main character in "C", an activity which requires another 4-5,000 words drafted to round-out. As well as that, I did a silent, 'un-acted' read-through of Crash. Unplanned was the time I spent updating the Coverstory books website to include landing pages for my new … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 28th March →

A very modest day yesterday, as expected, with "C" the focus of what work I was able to fit in. I've started writing a little after dinner in the evening - something I normally don't do - and am finding it a very productive time. Yesterday evening, for example, I drafted 776 words in 30 … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 27th March →

The good news from yesterday was that the eproofs of my upcoming books look ok. There may be a minor font glitch in a couple of places on the back cover of a two of them, but only by getting the physical proof copy next month will I know if that's really the case (and … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 26th March →

I managed to spend a fair bit of time working on "C" yesterday. The most gratifying thing is that I feel I am beginning to craft three interesting characters; something to get stuck into. More than that however is the growing desire to tell their stories - which with fiction is often more than half … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 25th March →

Lots of progress on my May publications yesterday with three of them now at the printers for media set-up. The next stage of that process is to get an 'eproof' of the paperback after which I'll order physical proof copies to review. I'll do this once I have prepared Tilt in a similar way (likely … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 24th March →

A really busy day yesterday with two highlights. The first was being able to have a full read-through of Crash with Andy, and the second was having Julia Usman as guest reader at Ripon Writers' Group talking about - and reading from - her autobiographical book, A Little Country. It was clear that Julia's book … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 23rd March →