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”
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Writing The Damn Synopsis!
I’ve been quiet for a while, trying to finish the first draft of my novel, almost dreading the moment it would be finished, because then – like all novelists- I face that dreaded Armageddon of Self-Belief when I have to write the synopsis. Many would say I’m now returning to the blog only because IContinue reading “Writing The Damn Synopsis!”
Eggs and Bad Banking on Day Six
Day Six of the twelve days of Christmas is all about geese laying eggs. How to get my true love this next gift? Now to be perfectly honest, I live next to a reservoir. We have Canadian Geese. It’s a lot warmer around Northamptonshire than Vancouver at this time of year, so rather than losingContinue reading “Eggs and Bad Banking on Day Six”
New Uses for Old Airfix Paints on Day Five
As Day Five of the twelve days dawns, we’re off the ornithology for a moment and onto jewellery, but a budgetary crisis looms. When it comes to the Gold Rings, said crisis is both mathematical and metallurgical. Firstly, the maths. It’s a weird gift-giving scenario we’re into here, in which the numerical quantity of giftsContinue reading “New Uses for Old Airfix Paints on Day Five”
The Days of Christmas (Part Four)
Day Four. We’ve done the nailed-on Partridge, the peroxide-modified turtle doves and the really-French French hens (see previous episodes). We’ve also eaten too much turkey, drunk too much wine, listened to the Queen (fell asleep, actually) and we’re drowning in the torn strips of wrapping paper. Now there’s a problem. What the f*ck are theContinue reading “The Days of Christmas (Part Four)”
