Strange, but professional behaviour. And a break.
Novelists are known for their strange behaviour. My search history is nowhere near as bad as that of a crime writer, but I do have a bad habit of staring…
Category: Inspiration
Pathological editing syndrome.
07.04 I spent six or seven hours this week writing a single email. It went to more than one person, but it was the same one. Did I need to…
Shtisel and losing touch with reality.
It seems I need other adults around to behave like a grown-up myself. My husband had COVID for the first week of the Easter holidays and was holed up in…
My novel undergoes its own dramatic transformation.
Rachel and I have three people’s novels to edit at the moment. There are contracts to negotiate, a tax return due, and this week I had a podcast to prepare…
Make Good Art
So tired, I can barely put a sentence together. So, I’m borrowing this from Neil Gaiman (again). With everything going on in the world, it’s time to make good art.
Wind days, hospital marketing, and a novelist’s ode to post-it notes.
We have ‘snow days’ in Britain, but for the first time, the children are off school because of the wind. Unfortunately for them, COVID means teachers have wised up about…
Parenting mini-mes, editing and the hard work behind magic.
The first sign of spring – forced daffodils in the supermarket. Give it another week or two and I’ll have snowdrops in my garden. I can see the crux of…
Canine proverbs, Riverdance, and keeping up the tension in my novel.
Eight days later, Pepper is still a walking miracle, though she’s supposed to be on bed rest. Try explaining that to a dog! However, she should however be putting on…
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