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Floating between drafts

29 Thursday Oct 2020

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drafts, historical mystery, murder mystery, Road to Murder, Tom Walsingham Mysteries, writing

Yesterday I finished, for all intents and purposes, the second draft of Road to Murder. Well, it was today, technically, around two in the morning – but still. I finished the second draft. Continue reading →

Shirley and the loss of Story-Innocence

15 Thursday Oct 2020

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Charlotte Brontë, Shirley, writing, writing and reading

Once upon a time – not long after our shared College years, I believe – my friend Fenella and I discovered a mutual liking for Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley. Now I’m sure you know how Shirley is rather the Cinderella among Charlotte’s novels – her one historical, written, at least in part, as a form of escapism while her siblings died one after another, and generally regarded as a lesser oddity.

Still, what can I say? I like it, with its background of faraway Napoleonic wars, and of Luddite unrest at home. I even like the unevenness of the whole. And I like the characters – even more than the eponymous girl (a heavily fictionalised portrait of Charlotte’s sister Emily), the quieter Caroline Helstone, and half-Belgian businessman Robert Moore. Continue reading →

The Accordion Years

01 Thursday Oct 2020

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Will it sound awfully cliché if I wonder, is it just me, or do years grow shorter and shorter as I grow older? Because… well, once upon a time, I used to draw my yearly sums, so to speak, at the end of December. A most sensible notion, you’d think, and a fairly common one. Continue reading →

Writingwritingwriting

24 Thursday Sep 2020

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multi-tasking, Procrastination, writing

I don’t know about you, but there was a time when, if asked, I would have said that I’d rather work on a project at a time, thank you very much. Continue reading →

Hear-ye hear-ye! (or, Sapere Books and I)

03 Thursday Sep 2020

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murder mystery, Publishing, Sapere Books, Sir Francis Walsingham

I believe I’ve hinted, now and then, at a work in progress labeled “TW”, set in Elizabethan times and hopefully destined for promising developments?

Well, o Readers, the developments have happened, and I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve signed a publishing deal with the wonderful Sapere Books! Continue reading →

Malamud and the Quote Found

20 Thursday Aug 2020

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Bernard Malamud, Israel Shenker, Stories, story, storytelling, writing

Yes, yes – in the end I found it.

We talked about that quote of Bernard Malamud, didn’t we? The one about stories, stories, stories, the one I was sure I’d jotted down and never found again – not in old notebooks, not in the Web… That one.

Well, as was bound to happen, I found it in the end. Continue reading →

Writing Obsessions

23 Thursday Jul 2020

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History, meme, metafiction, obsessions, writing

Ages ago, I was dragged into one of those meme things… I must confess I always go very reluctantly about those. After all, why would anyone want to know ten things about me, or what music I have on my iPod, or where would I like to travel…

This one, though, was about writing – and when it comes to writing and reading, we’ve long established that I have no control whatever. So I did the meme on my Italian blog. It was about writing obsessions – those recurring themes one writes about again and again, intentions, obdurate passions – half guiding lights, half Trade Winds… we all have a handful of those, right? Continue reading →

Sonnets, highways, and napkins in the fridge

09 Thursday Jul 2020

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Agas map, Estienne's Chemins de France, Shakespeare's Sonnets, theatre, writing

Tax-rolls for the names, the Agas Map of London, rope (or not rope) ferries, lute music, woodcuts and their elements, leagues and miles, Estienne’s Guide des Chemins de France, post horses, ruffs and collars, the (not very long) way from the Quai des Bernardins to the Rue des Anglais in Paris, the right way to take a bow, original frontispieces,  light hours in November, and Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day, Cadiz 1596, wives inheriting, Channel crossings, Thomas Platter… Continue reading →

Is this a salmon which I see before me?

28 Thursday May 2020

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BBC, Finding ideas, story ideas, writing

Do they ever ask you Where Do You Find Ideas?

Hereabout, it happens all the time. It is one of the Three Questions:

1. How much of yourself is there in this story?
2. How long does it take you to write a novel?
3. Where/how do you find your ideas? Continue reading →

Not Quite a Story a Day

21 Thursday May 2020

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#StoryADayMay, loss of momentum

So… how is it going? #StoryADayMay, I mean…

I must say that…well. I suppose you could say that technically speaking, having completed my fifteenth story last night,  I’m still on my chosen course of at least three stories a week.

And that’s good.

But… but. Continue reading →

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