Sent off chapters 7 to 10 today to my prospective agent, at the end of a day of leave. Feel very pleased. Also sailed over the 99,000 word mark with some last minute splicing in of new sources. One of my favourite bits added today: Contemporaries described the fire as (amongst other things), “fearfully imposing” […]
Writing and Researching
A Room of My Own
I write in the cellar, which also doubles as a dining room. I also share it with the washing and the hoover. Here is the view this afternoon as I finish off chapter 11. Of particular note is the ubiquitous diet coke can, and my cat in a warm spot by the radiator. The cat also […]
Happy New Year to All My Readers!
During the first week of 2011 I completed work on chapters 7, 8, 9 and 10. I now have two-thirds of the book finalised, and am just doing final checks before sending this latest chunk off to my prospective agent. I also have three kind people reading and commenting on chapters 0 to 6, which […]
Christmas Presents!
Having been given a print of the fire for my birthday in November, my other half presents it to me – framed – for Christmas – lovely!
Snowed in Too
Yet again snowed in from 17th December. But then got sidetracked helping my other half with proofreading his book (out loud!) for three whole days…not much progress at my end of things.
Snowed In
More frustration. Flew to Edinburgh to attend an annual reunion with university friends, but delayed coming back by bad weather. In the end we had to abandon the return flights and get a train back to London the day after – which could have been seven hours of prime time for working on the book but I had neither laptop […]
