Archive for October, 2013
26
Oct
Reaching the finishing line of the marathon
Yes, it’s true: at last I’ve finished the novel! Or to be more precise, I now have a complete manuscript, checked three times for inconsistencies, typos, creaky bits, stylistic sickeners and general infelicities, and tomorrow I shall dispatch it to…
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13
Oct
Are you sitting down…? Mark is blogging!!
“Welcome,” said my elder daughter recently, “to the twenty-first century.” Her remark was occasioned by my discovery of the meanings of ‘blog’ and ‘blogging’. Those words had hitherto been as inscrutable to me as ‘sooterkin’ and ‘cablish’ – but, as…
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01
Oct
OCT 2013 NOTEBOOK ENTRY
The novel is still ‘nearing completion’; almost all the remaining text is drafted, but the pieces aren’t necessarily (to quote a well-known comedian) in the right order. Shuffling the pack is quite entertaining. Progress with this minimum opus has…
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