I’ve just got back from a blissfully child free twenty four hours spent with The Husband in London, where we went to see Arthur Miller’s The Crucible at The Old Vic. Now, plenty of people far more erudite than me have written reviews of the play, and it would be tedious to repeat what many have… Continue reading The Crucible, The Old Vic, 20th August 2014
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Letting it go…the end of the beginning.
This afternoon I came to the end of the first draft of Far From the Tree. After six months and 28 days of near-solid writing, and close to 125, 500 words (not including the rigorous chopping along route), I think I can finally say it's finished. Not finished in the 'done and ready to send off'… Continue reading Letting it go…the end of the beginning.
Writing, the ‘old fashioned’ way!
I've been on holiday for the past week, and apart from the obvious security implications of taking a laptop to a tent, I decided just to take my most recent paper notebook with me. I also decided that, for the first time in eight months, I wasn't going to work on Far From the Tree, but… Continue reading Writing, the ‘old fashioned’ way!
Writing Process Blog Hop
A great idea whereby you get an insight into how and what makes writers write. I jumped on the bandwagon after the lovely Jessica Bloczynski did a post on her blog, which you can find here: http://maniacmarmoset.wordpress.com/ Anyone who'd like to be tagged to do this, please let me know 🙂 What am I working on? Currently, I'm… Continue reading Writing Process Blog Hop
Literary influences: Jilly Cooper
I can still vividly remember the first time I read a Jilly Cooper novel. It was 1989 or thereabouts. I was twelve years old. It was Riders, the first in the now ubiquitous Rutshire Chronicles series. And although a lot of the literary and sexual references went straight over my head, I loved every single last… Continue reading Literary influences: Jilly Cooper
Fantasy Casting Contenders: Paul McGann (again!)
This is not helping my obsessions with: a) the main character in my novel Far From the Tree b) Paul McGann in general. I don’t care if Paul’s not 6’3” - he’s got the hair, the brooding looks and the Land Rover, for goodness’ sake. It’s him or Armitage.
Fantasy Casting Contenders: Paul McGann
(Via misschanandlermbong) A glorious picture of one of the contenders for the role of Matthew Carter in my novel Far From the Tree.
Pretending I’m actually famous enough to be interviewed…;)
I found this list of questions on http://www.publishing-hub.com/2013/11/words-with-writers-20-fantastic.html and I thought it might be fun to answer some of them, to give people a flavour of what I'm like as a writer. So here goes! -What does your writing process look like? Process...hmmm. Well, at the moment, it's five minutes here and there during the day,… Continue reading Pretending I’m actually famous enough to be interviewed…;)
wonderfulbritain: As the Sun Sinks by Doolallyally on Flickr. Gorgeous panorama of a beautiful landscape.
w0mb4ts: Photo 25-01-2014 14 12 51 on Flickr. Another idyllic shot of Somerset. Gorgeous!
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