I wish I could claim that I've done nothing but write for the past 16 days and am therefore miles ahead on my NaNovel (like last year), but alas, it's not the case. I've had a pretty crummy start to November, in fact, with several days when I didn't...

Because I didn't go out for Halloween this year, I thought I'd start writing at midnight. And I certainly wasn't the only one. Six or seven us sat in the WriMo Ireland chat room and started off NaNoWriMo 2009 with a 10-minute word sprint. I managed...

Thud!, Terry Pratchett. Own copy. Comfort reading while I was feeling lousy with a heavy cold. Feersum Endjin, Iain M Banks. Borrowed(?) copy, first read. Another delivery from my Dad. Not sure I liked this one – it exposed to me how much I...

As mentioned several times already in the past month or so, November is National Novel Writing Month. This will be my seventh year taking part, and hopefully, my fifth time reaching 50,000 words in 30 days. Actually, this year I'm aiming for 75-80...

One of my local pound shops (which no longer sells everything at a pound, but has things priced at 1.50 and 2 as well) has lately renamed itself. I can't actually remember the old name, but I think it might have had ‘pound' in it. I could be...