Category Archives: drafting

getting to grips with ‘the paragraph’

Posted on November 5, 2018 by

I was recently asked how I felt about paragraphs. “Well you know, all the feels” I might have replied. But I didn’t, largely because I don’t usually think about the paragraph. The question made me wonder whether I take the … Continue reading →

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the writer’s tic – it’s all about the invisible gorilla

Posted on June 23, 2016 by

Lots of us have writing tics. A writing tic is involuntary, something we do without thinking. Many of us get a writing tic or two when producing a first draft. But we only find this out afterwards, when we read through what … Continue reading →

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book blogging – it’s done but not dusted

Posted on November 24, 2014 by

We’ve played The Hallelujah Chorus. We’ve bounced around to Bowie’s Let’s dance. We’ve shouted Ole and Hooray several times. Yes, we’ve finished a first draft. We have 80,000 words or so – 60,000 of which were written in the last … Continue reading →

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handing in the PhD – yes, it’s a checklist!!

Posted on August 28, 2014 by

There’s nothing quite like the countdown to handing in the PhD. Puff pant, puff pant. I think I can, I think I can. But…. On the one hand, you may be absolutely sick of the sight of the text and … Continue reading →

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book blogging interlude – turn around when possible

Posted on May 31, 2014 by

This is the last of five days working on the book with Barbara. By the time she has to get on board the train back to London this evening, we will have finished off most of a section, and revised … Continue reading →

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