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Dumas on counting words

08 Thursday Sep 2022

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Alexandre Dumas, deadlines, Le Constitutionnel, The Three Musketeers, wordcount, writing

This one is for T.

I’m always a little amused at being reminded that, in my corner of the world, measuring a written text in words, is still a somewhat alien notion. No, really. I still run into people who go round eyed and ask how on earth are they going to keep count – and are genuinely amazed to discover that any word processor will do it for them… Continue reading →

Then came the plague

28 Thursday Jul 2022

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Covid-19, deadlines, The Tom Walsingham Mysteries, writing, writing schedule

I’d somehow managed to dodge it for more than two years and a half, but at last the plague caught me – or, in other word, I caught Covid at last. I suppose it was just a matter of time – and that I caught it at the theatre was just as inevitable as it was fitting.

Last Friday, more or less from one moment to the next, I found myself with a very sore throat and a temperature above 39° C. Within hours a rather fierce cough and a cold joined the company – and there I was. Continue reading →

The not-quite-finish line

26 Thursday May 2022

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deadlines, Procrastination, writing

I don’t know about you – but with me it’s like this: the closer I get to finishing a project, the more I slow down. Continue reading →

A bit of panic – or, The Great Duck Mutiny

24 Thursday Mar 2022

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deadlines, Emma Darwin, overwhelm, rachel aaron, theatre, wordcount, writing

I didn’t post last week.

I found myself on Thursday morning with no post ready and no good idea… Continue reading →

Blocked?

05 Thursday Jul 2018

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competition, deadlines, Historical fiction, Short Stories, writer's block

There is this competition, you see – short stories, historical setting… I really, really want to submit. I’ve known about it for quite some time – and, in fact, for some reason, at first I thought the deadline was in late April. So I began brainstorming ideas back in March, and went through old notebooks, mining for those little Could This Be A Story notes, or hastily sketched half-page notions, and wrote down lists of promising ideas… and then hit on something I liked. Something that was tied to my work in progress. Something promising.  Continue reading →

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