My previous posting of ‘Reservoir Blogs #1’ came to me while running through the slushy mud around one of Northamptonshire’s most important water sources, hence its title, so how better to get through the post-Christmas inertia of writing, or not-writing, a sequel to my novel The Typewriterists than by jogging once again on those sameContinue reading “Reservoir Blogs #2 – How Hard Can It Be To Write The Sequel?”
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Reservoir Blogs #1 – With Guest Editor, David N. Martin
‘Reservoir Blogs #1’ came to me while running through the slushy mud around one of Northamptonshire’s most important water sources, hence the title of this post: my ‘Reservoir Jogs’ shall henceforth be known as the ‘Reservoir Blogs’. (Yes, that’s as good as the puns are going to get. But no, that’s not me running. IContinue reading “Reservoir Blogs #1 – With Guest Editor, David N. Martin”
Six Indispensible Things You’ll Need to be a ‘Pro’ Writer
After years of research, I finally have a definitive list: 1) A word processor. Apple is preferred, but Windows and Linux based options make you look like you’ve suffered for your art, rather than been gifted a fifteen hundred quid PC. Whether you buy it, get given it or nick it, no writer can liveContinue reading “Six Indispensible Things You’ll Need to be a ‘Pro’ Writer”
A Question of Tense – part 2
Now I’ve had some time to stew on the question of ‘tense’ and its relation to narrative voice, I’ve come to an unexpected conclusion: ‘Tense’ isn’t a part of narrative voice, unless you deliberately mess with it.’ I was struck by the number of books I’ve read recently in which the tense changes. ‘The Goldfinch’,Continue reading “A Question of Tense – part 2”
A Return to the Blog (and a return to the novel)
So here’s the thing: I haven’t posted much in a long while, but I have a good excuse: I’ve been working on the first draft of a new book. Well, not so much a first draft as a zeroth draft: 90,000 words of unconnected vignettes that don’t hang together. No change there, you might thinkContinue reading “A Return to the Blog (and a return to the novel)”
