Well, there it is. I typed the end, and then I typed ‘The End’, and then there it was, done. How do I feel? Relievedexcitedproudsmug? No, none of the above, really. Maybe a little relieved. And starting to worry about what to do next, already. And a little bit drained. But I think that’s just… Read More Carnegie Blog 8: Conclusion
I’ve had another blog prompt, this one from my supervisor, professor Anna Vaninskaya, who originally nominated me for the scholarship which this project is for. She asked, in a comment on my previous blog: I’d be curious to know how you manage the speaking voices in the 1822 section – are you going for antiquarian… Read More Carnegie blog 7: Research and Accuracy
Well, I’ve just written my climax. Not, you understand, my ending; I still have three small chapters to go. But I’ve written the moment of climax, the point where the ‘rising action’ of the story peaks, and only the ‘falling action’, the mopping-up, remains. And if that all sounded disgustingly phallic, well, that’s literature for… Read More Carnegie Blog 6: Climax
My flatmates are in disagreement regarding the ‘nobhead’ vs ‘knobhead’ debate. Make up your own minds. This is the fifth of my blogs about the process of trying to write a novella, 35k-50k words long, in six weeks. Next Tuesday is my final day; my wordcount is just over 30k. In this blog, as suggested… Read More Carnegia Blog 5: Character (or, why Stephen Ferris had to be a nobhead)
The fourth of my supposedly ‘weekly’ blogs about the novella I’m writing for the Carnegie Vacation Scholarship, full of apologies and half-explanations for taking so long to write it – and also a few little updates on the book itself. Hello! It’s been a little too long since I wrote the last one… Read More Carnegie Blog 4: Back in the Saddle
My third blog about the process of writing a novella in six weeks for the Carnegie Undergraduate Vacation Scholarship. In this post I’ll talk about settling in to the project, artistic crises, and the way that a piece of story can suddenly buck like an ill-tamed mustang. Use the ‘recent posts’ section on the right-hand… Read More Carnegie Blog 3: Going Through Changes
This is my second blog about the Carnegie Scholarship, for which I’m writing a first draft of a novella over the course of six weeks, starting 12/6/2012. See below for my first post, which was all about what the scholarship is and how I came by it. In this follow-up, I’m going to talk a… Read More Carnegie Blog 2: Surveillance Dugs (working title)
This is the first in a series of blogs I’ll be doing over the next six weeks, as part of the Carnegie Undergraduate Vacation Scholarship. I’ll update at least weekly, possibly more, contingent on how much I find to say about the writing process of trying to produce a 35,000 – 50,000 word novella (first… Read More Carnegie Blog 1: Fear of the Blank Page
Reasons to Remain 