A moment of satisfaction

I have printed out a first draft of my second novel which I finished writing last weekend. (My first novel? I completed it to a second draft stage but after working on this novel, I feel a demotion coming on. It’s probably not as bad as I think it is. I wish!) Anyway, after teasing […]

My practice novel

My first novel is a practice novel. Simple as. It is the first novel I have ever written so surely it is a warm up, an attempt to practice the craft of novel writing. And revising. And editing. Just as the first child is the practice child. So it is with the first novel. And […]

Music and sleepiness make me write faster

This is the weirdest thing I discovered while trying (I have to use that word) to write a first draft for a second and third novel idea (I started the second novel got bored and started the third idea – me like this one). I would turn up at the pc in the morning and, […]

Book an hour for yourself

In your diary, right now, book an hour where you will write. It’s a date. It’s your hour.   I book my time and try to turn up. I notice that I sometimes get there late but I say to myself – stay and write. Even if I’m scared of writing. The first few times […]