Will word for food

Here we go – month 1 of the Living by Men’s Health challenge. And a bumper month to start with! This issue comes in one of those extra big bags and makes crazy promises on the cover. Sex tips from the FBI! Wow! I have no idea what they could be. Always show identification? Make… Continue reading »

A brand new experiment: I’m going to subscribe to Men’s Health. Read it. Ignore (mostly) the pretty ladies in their pants. Then do the exercises, eat the food, follow the advice and see what happens. Will I get a six pack in a month? Will I get a beach body in a week? Will I be able to ignore the pretty ladies in their pants? No, probably not.

Work continues apace on the novel. I’m up to about page 65 of 300; there are sections I’ve not yet worked on, as they need fairly comprehensive re-writes, but I plan to work on those in one go. It turns out re-drafting is a more time-consuming activity than writing the first draft; more intensive, at… Continue reading »

Having finished the first draft of my novel, I’m now working through the first re-draft; here I introduce a little of the process I’ll be going through.

Booky booky booky boooooks – I love ‘em. Not only are they nice to touch, and a good excuse to have lots of bookshelves, but they also teach you many things. These are the books I found most useful when working on the novel.