Welcome

This blog is just to record my experience of writing a story. That is something I have wanted to do all my life. I guess it is now or never.

I am just doing it for fun. I do not really intend to publish it. Mind you, I shall give that a try if I ever get it finished :).

The blog is only intended for me to keep a diary of my thoughts and for some of my close friends, especially those at the Richmond Writers' Circle (bless them for their patience).

If you have found your way here by accident, comments are welcome - especially the kind ones.

If you are, like me, attempting to write your first novel, please share the ups and downs.

Tuesday, 21 May 2013

I'm calling the new story Jaspar

... until I can think of something better. I was going to post my diagram plan here but it clearly doesn't do pdf files. Oh well.


Monday, 20 May 2013

Well, not quite

Still in La France Profunde. Still learning how my galaxy note works. But... I have been working on the plot for for Jaspar. Actually I have been discovering the importance of woking out plot and characters in some detail in advance if the writing is to go fast.

Saturday, 18 May 2013

Novel in a month characters

Reading words of wisdom that writing fast is partially dependant on having characters sorted I decided to adopt the Enneagram types as a starting point

Friday, 17 May 2013

BACK!!

Well, I have to confess, I don't deal too well with breaks to my routine.  I wish I did but I don't.  I haven't posted here since my mother had a fall and I went to Oz. I wasn't long back in London when here we are in armagnac. I going to have to get better at this.

In the meantime, I booked myself into writing course at the RACC. It is how to write a novel in a month.  (Don't laugh! )
Basically,  I'm committed to about 50 thousand words in 4 weeks. If I get time to post about it at all I'll do it here. My point being that this blog about the Gentlemen Rankers is going to be taken over by my new (to be done in 4 weeks) story.