Posts about writing

Spooky title thing

So Old Man and I went to my friend Belinda Gannaway‘s jolly birthday party on Saturday night[…]

Weightlifting for weedy writers

I have printed out my first draft of novel #2, and it comes to nearly 500 pages,[…]

Research wasn’t like this when I was a lass

Today I am feeling a little Lazarus-like thanks to antibiotics. But still happily confined to bed, where[…]

Lazy old bag

What do writers and women of the night have in common? Prostitution, you may say**. But we[…]

Thoughts about process

I have spent the last couple of days catching up on admin and reading, trying to flush[…]

So this is how it happens

Today, after a fruitless day yesterday where I wrote myself into a dark hole, (including some inappropriate[…]

The First Draft Appears

That’s what it’s feeling like at the moment. I’m in a good spot after a slow summer,[…]