In The Autumn Of My (Writing) Life

Summer’s never long enough, is it? If the reappearance of PSLs at your Starbucks wasn’t clear enough, or the resurgence of Gilmore Girls to the top of your Netflix algorithm, September’s upon us once more and the seasons seem to have finally turned. Here we go. I’ve long transcended caring enough about this blog to […]

New Year’s Progress

Dear lord, that last blogpost did not age well. As any long-time followers of this blog will know, a gap of seven months between posts isn’t exactly out of character for me. Nor is waxing lyrical about a novel’s progress, and proclaiming it will be done in a month or two. In actual fact, after […]

80k Update

Ahoy. Shadows‘ wordcount hit 80,000 this weekend, which by my usual standards is a bit of a suspicious milestone. I started writing this novel in March of this year – as a direct result of visiting the marvellous (and sadly over) Life in the Roman Army exhibition at the British Museum, as a matter of […]

Fine. *Fine*. *This* is what I’m writing.

Ahem. Been a while. Long enough for WordPress to completely reformat into a more user-friendly layout, that is a pleasant surprise as I type this. I’ve said a couple of times on posts this year that I’m trying to think about what this blog is going to do or say, and I’ve come to realise […]