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And Draft 1

10 Thursday Mar 2022

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book 2, deadline, draft 1, draft-0, Tom Walsingham Mysteries, writing, writing experiment, writing schedule

Well, no – this is not to say that I have finished Draft 1… I’m about halfway through, though, and it is not an entirely bad place to be at this point.  Oh, I do have almost daily bouts of How Will I Ever Meet The Deadline, but it is a common disease, and actually I’m pretty much on schedule, so what does one do, except ignore the bouts and write on? Continue reading →

Names, names, names…

27 Thursday Jan 2022

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Historical fiction, languages, names, naming characters, research, spelling, Tom Walsingham Mysteries, writing

Yesterday I spent a good deal of time perusing lists of names of Guild members in 16th century Bruges. It’s one of the many wonders of the Internet that you can find this sort of thing for the asking… and, as I said, I ended up spending a good chunk of the afternoon going through list after list, copying the promising ones in my notebook – one column for given names, one for family names – trying them out for size, and even involving a Dutch-speaking friend for a sense of how a few of them would be pronounced… Continue reading →

Floating between drafts

29 Thursday Oct 2020

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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 →

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