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October 17, 2006 by graham
Clicking along on bright rails
252 / 333 (75.7%) Just eighty-one pages to go. Well, probably. I can’t remember whether or not, somewhere in those eighty-one pages, I’ve written a message in caps to myself, telling me that I need to fill a bit in. In fact, I’ve just come across one such note at the end of page 252, [...]Archive
September 29, 2006 by graham
Note to self
NaNoWriMo 2006 registration starts tomorrow. Don’t forget.Archive
September 5, 2006 by graham
My kingdom for an update
Funny things, blogs. You can set one up without too much thought (I’m living proof of this, by the way) and happily pootle along, filling it with all kinds of foufouraw about your life, your aspirations and your thoughts, and never really think about what you’re writing. And then, one day, your workmates (hello fellas) [...]Archive
August 15, 2006 by graham
Graham’s Theory of Writing #42
Writing is far easier when you don’t have to think about how to start. It’s true, it’s true. For the past three nights I’ve sat at my desk and stared first at the computer screen, then at some blank A4, then at one notepad, then at the A4 again. Finally, I’ve stared at my little [...]Archive
April 9, 2006 by graham
So it begins
And so it begins. To the left, observe the first draft of Muse – or whatever it ends up being called – in all its double-spaced single-sided glory. I managed all of ten pages today – the first chapter – though it felt slightly strange, as though they weren’t my words at all and it [...]Archive
February 26, 2006 by graham
Done
98,203 / 98,203 (100.0%) 98,203 words.Done. More-or-less, anyway. Okay, let’s be honest here. There are bits that I need to fill in, mostly marked in caps, dotted all around the manuscript. Unless I’m very much wrong, they’ll add up to at least another 5,000 words, but the story’s there, even if it’s just in brief [...]Archive
December 14, 2005 by graham
Wherein Nothing Happens
A sudden, sickening, horrible thought hit me as I was finishing the 1,800 words that I wrote tonight: There a part of my story in which nothing really happens. Worse, though, is the fact that that part of the story accounts for most of the damn novel, or at least so it seems to the [...]Archive
November 30, 2005 by graham