It’s official. I want a divorce. Not from my wife, of course. She’s the loveliest creature on this good earth, and no matter how hard things get in this marriage the D-word is one that will never come up. No, I would like a divorce from this novel. I have hit a period in the... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEDt1OxLVbM I said I would do it, and here it is: my first attempt at recording myself drafting the next section of 'The Singularity', with accompanying commentary. I'll be honest: this was a strange experience, and I'm not entirely sure of the effect it had on my output (quality, not quantity — what you see... Continue Reading →
The end of the first draft, for me, is always something of a cathartic experience. The ideas that have been boiling in my head for months (and, in the case of some scenes, years) are 'on the page': I've pinned them down, given them substance, made them physical. In the case of the more abstract... Continue Reading →
Matthew Wainwright, Children's Author 