Category Archives: The Writing Process

Progress

Despite having worked on hardly anything else this year, I have embarked on yet another draft of Novel 6. I just couldn’t stop myself. It was that new idea for the first three chapters that I mentioned in my last post. That inner-editor of mine just wouldn’t let it go, especially as the only reasonContinue reading “Progress”

The Story of a Christmas Tree

We have two Christmas trees in our house. One is a lovely 7ft artificial tree that we spent rather a lot of money on over ten years ago. It stands in our dining room, and it is my ‘posh’ tree; it is decorated exclusively in red and gold baubles, with red ‘cranberry’ style lights, andContinue reading “The Story of a Christmas Tree”

Dates in Fiction

Today is 12th October. On this day in history, the Battle of Hatfield Chase in 632 led to the death of Edwin of Deira, the first Christian king of Northumbria. It was also the birthdate of Edward VI, the son that Henry VIII hoped would save the Tudor dynasty. In 1979, it was the publicationContinue reading “Dates in Fiction”

Fictional Geographies and Imagined Architecture

As I mentioned in my last blog, my reward to myself for finishing the second draft of Novel 6 was reading some fiction by other people. This was my first opportunity to read Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry. He is a writer I admire immensely and this novel was just amazing, a perfect exampleContinue reading “Fictional Geographies and Imagined Architecture”