Last night I braved a downpour so severe I could barely make out my own headlights on the road ahead to make my way towards a modern building in an esteemed seat of learning, and found myself sitting in a classroom for the first time in over a decade. I was surprised to see that [...]
Note: Before we get going, it strikes me as slightly ironic that when I bought www.bloodonthemotorway.com the idea was always that the novel would be serialised, and this domain, Blog On The Motorway, would be simply a new home for the blog I have written for years. The title being nothing other than a simple [...]
Last night I was getting all flustered about not having blogged in a whole week, when my partner rather sagely pointed out that nobody is even remotely likely to have noticed, something which seemed cold and cruel at first, but also wildly accurate. I never really notice when even my favourite bloggers go quiet for [...]
Now that I’m getting pretty jazzed about my writing again, I’m really keen to do my total physical rewrite of Blood On The Motorway’s opening chapters. Since I have written on some form of computer pretty exclusively since I started writing for sun, I’ve always edited by tinkering with the existing text. It seemed somewhat [...]
I will return to the 30 day song challenge shortly, but the next topic is ‘a song that makes you happy’ or some such, which is too difficult for me to wrap my head around at the moment, given that I have a head full of nasty cold, which I am currently trying to expel [...]
Just a week or so ago, I was feeling pretty blue about my major writing project, Blood On The Motorway. It is in itself something of a product of a fractured genesis, and if in fact the reworking of my first ever attempt at a novel, and although it has drastically changed over the near [...]
So setting up a writing group is hard. I had firstly expected that when I put the clarion call out through Facebook and Twitter that the response would be a floodgate of people, all wanting to be a part of my new literary equivalent of a biker gang. So far I’ve had three people, and [...]
I go through little bursts of enthusiasm every now and again, when for a moment all my dreams of being a writer seem like an achievable dream, rather than some mirage of a distant sunny shore to a man drowning in his own mediocrity. These moments are rare, but can last for months at a [...]
You may have noticed that since I started my new job (and if you didn’t know, I’ve started a new job!) the frequency of posting has dropped to around the level of satisfaction of your average Charlie Sheen concert attendee, the whole idea I had at the beginning of the year to post as close [...]
Finding this a bit of a struggle today, a combination of being bloody tired after staying up too late after Richard Herring, a very early start for my new job, a long train journey, a tiring evening and then watching what was simultaneously the most uplifting and depressing hour of television ever broadcast in Brian [...]
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