Get back on that there horse, sonny boy
I’m avoiding writing. Okay, so that’s nothing new, which makes it all the more of a ball ache, but I’ve got $foo pages of notes on novel-the-second and it’s starting to piss of Writer Graham that Codemonkey Graham is sitting around tinkering with things (like the new grahambinns.com in all its Django‘d goodness) and essentially [...]
Neroblogging, birthdays, etc.
I woke up yesterday morning to find myself, somewhat disconcertingly, a year older than I had been when I went to sleep. I don’t have much truck with birthdays to be honest. As a kid, of course, they were second only to Christmas in the times-of-the-year-to-be-excited-about stakes, but, being a kid, that was pretty much [...]
Jobsworth
I suppose that I should probably have managed to get more done over these last few days, but I’m satisfied nevertheless. The plot outline for Muse-that-was is now complete; 83 notecards (or rather Impress slides, but let’s not quibble) worth of stuff, which I shall proceed to sort through on Sunday, are the final result. [...]
Slacking
Okay, I confess, I’ve not been much with the writing lately. Not because of lack of time – I’ve had plenty – more because of a lack of motivation. I’m sick of the sight of the novel formerly known as Muse. I’ve spent most of November working on writing an outline of the current plot [...]
For the sake of argument, morning ends at 1:30pm, okay?
333 / 333 (100.0%) Done. And now onto other things.
Twenty
313 / 333 (94.0%) I’m procrastinating, but I think I’m allowed to procrastinate just a little. I have but twenty pages of manuscript left before the first pass edits are done on the project-formerly-known-as-Muse (let’s just call it The Novel and have done with it; I haven’t got a damn clue what title I’m actually [...]
When the muse doesn’t come, sing
The muse is, rather ironically, ignoring me tonight. Not in the sense that I’m suffering from what I’ve rather tediously referred to in the past as writer’s block; more accurately in the sense that I can’t seem to find any real desire to work on the Muse manuscript this evening. It’s probably because I got [...]
One of the good bits
222 / 333 (66.7%) After last night, when I did no editing whatsoever because I was, to put it mildly, in a blue funk, tonight came as a pleasant surprise. Tonight I got to edit one of the really good bits, one of those bits that doesn’t need a lot of editing because it’s almost [...]
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 [...]
A Bit of a Rest
I’m taking a semi day off today. That is to say that I’ve been programming for eleven days straight and so, apart from a little work on Das Projekt, today is mine. I thank you. I really need get back to that editing thing that I used to be doing. I think you can probably [...]
While There’s Time
A brief lull in the busyness that seems to be my lot at the moment, brought on by having just got home and additionally by waiting to see what Sarah would like to eat for tea (Lamb Kare Lomen or a green salad being the two main options), finds me sitting at the computer with [...]
Getting back on the wagon
I slept later today than I meant to. For some reason, be it age or a lack of practise, staying up until past two in the morning doesn’t sit well with me any more, and it left me feeling drained, hence the going back to sleep when I should be getting up and working mojo [...]
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 [...]
