Now published!

Yup, I am now a published essayist, I hesitate to use the word author to be honest, but certainly an essayist.  The book is the Encyclopaedia to Literary Romanticism, ed. Andrew Maunder.  Check it out on Amazon.co.uk

had a really good day yesterday

I was alone all day, having decided to come back home from the old man's cycle race weekend.  Had a really long bath, well rude not to, and then settled down to write.  I achieved around 1,000 give or take, and have managed to move the story on rather than tweak the existing chapters.

it's slow progress, as I have limited time available, but it is progressing, and that's important.  I am setting myself now, a deadline of this Christmas to get it finished.  I need that deadline, in order to press on with it.

Had a big dilemma over the last few days

I did manage to get some writing done this week, today has been a bit of a disaster on the creative front however.  I do feel that the story is coming together now, it's been very hard work with a lot of research, but I think it is far better for it.

some short stories abound, and hopefully myself and Caroline will be able to get our acts together and maybe get something to an agent in the near future.  can't believe it's nearly winter again and the book still isn't in the state i'd like it to be in.

actually it's not nearly winter is it, it just looks like it out there!

not getting overly far

with the writing at the moment, just when you think you've got five minutes to get to grips with it, then something happens.  After the stall day, I have two commissions one of which is now complete, the other of which I cannot complete until tomorrow.  Also another dilemma, do I shell out nearly £200 for a stall at an event in London?  it's a lot of money, but a potentially huuge return.  This is no state of mind to be in when trying to write a novel I can tell you!

Still Cyprus looms in the near distant future!  Yayyyy  (very unacademic of me)

ooo haven't blogged here for a while

well, after my very small success, and frankly somewhat unsurprising success, in the writing comp on Facebook, I have managed to finish a short story, started last year, and have spent a goodly part of today on the novel.  I'm still missing some links however, so I need to have a good old think about those missing bits.  it has to be right, or it could be the worst!

The thing is....

that it's all well and good these planes going over all day every day, but it's really not conducive to writing.  not so much the noise, but the fact that everybody downs tools and runs outside to see what's happening! 

I'm fitter though! 

Writing is so hard to do

ha, no not the writing itself, but finding the right space and time.  It's difficult to write whilst a 100 and one other things are going around in your head.  Still even if one can get 20minutes to 'bung' something down and then edit it later, it's better than nothing. 

I soldier on.....