An Update

July 30, 2009 in Process, Summerbook | No comments

Including days ten and eleven.

This being the season of summers and also holidays, I will be away in a Kentish lighthouse for a week.

Thankfully my laptop will be accompanying me, and with the English weather as it is, I am hoping for a lot of opportunity to write without too many distractions, and with easy access to ale, who knows what might occur.

In prep for this, I’ve been planning some plotlines and ideas in various notebookery over the last two days, hence not much writing and updating.

If they have internet in Kent, I’ll post a few updates whilst I’m there, if not, be prepared for a bumper megaupdate on friday or saturday week.

Until then.

Cheers.

x

A minor observation;

July 28, 2009 in Process | No comments

I cannot write in these updates. My grammar is shocking.

I must have used up all my mojo in the book. (Rightfully so?)

Sorry anyway.

Tom

Day Nine

July 28, 2009 in Summerbook | No comments

Spent today in brighton; amongst the self consciously bohemian and artistic. Where the ratio of awesome cafes and delis and record shops and bars per square mile threatens to break all records. It’s like most of the best stuff from london, squeezed into an easily traversible space, a bit less stressful and with more vegans.

I spent most of the day imagining an existence here as a writer. It containing for me, all the essential elements needed to write;

  • The Sea.
  • Proximity and abundance of good coffee.
  • Excellent people watching opportunities.
  • Lots of birds overhead.
  • Multiple windy streets for writers-block-breaking walks at crucial creative junctures.

This evening spent trying to maintain progress in the project. Most of todays writing mines my own chequered work history, as establishing our protagonist as a minor retail slave, with him going to work the day after his break up. This goes with the bad interview scenes written earlier last week. Yes. Connections.

Today I appear to be mostly channeling Douglas Coupland, Gibson, and Palahniuk. I think the reception wasn’t great though.

Total Wordcount so far (after nine days): 7,992

Daily Wordcount: 1,001

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