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March 1, 2007 by graham

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 [...]

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February 10, 2007 by graham

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 [...]

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December 1, 2006 by graham

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. [...]

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November 18, 2006 by graham

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 [...]

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October 28, 2006 by graham

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 [...]

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October 18, 2006 by graham

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 [...]

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October 11, 2006 by graham

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 [...]

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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 [...]
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