Month: January 2021

Where is this Prequel going? Well, I’ve been following the characters as they’ve developed their own narrative (I didn’t believe this, when I read novelists describing how the characters go where they wish, but there’s much truth in that sense, I now think). Of course, characters and story all derive from the author’s imagination, but… Continue reading With Ch. 3 done, where …

A challenge, identified by a recording expert in the family, is on track to being rectified: with my mouth only a couple inches from the Blue Yeti microphone, the iPad positioned at eye level above that, I can read softly and intimately, while keeping my sound levels within tolerance, as GarageBand records the narrative. We’re… Continue reading Recording refinements

As time marches on, so the words mount up, as long as I’m conscientious. I think I’ve finished the second chapter of Prequel, which means, in my working formula, that I’ve consolidated Act I, and now the fictional community of Biome NE47 must get to work to sort things out during Act II. Soon, perhaps… Continue reading Chapter 2, sorted

I wouldn’t dream of placing my efforts anywhere near Charles Dickens, of course, but I’m thinking that my approach to this Prequel is reminiscent of the serialised writing popularised in high Victorian times by the great man. Having finished the first chapter, and well on my way through the second, I’ve not really plotted the… Continue reading Serialisation . . .

Okay, I’ll come clean from the start: I love writing, but this blog is a dual-purpose enterprise. It’s a marketing tool, designed to elicit interest in the main event, the novel Biome NE47 It’s an exploratory device, helping me to understand the odyssey through the publishing maze Therefore, wait a minute, there’s a third purpose:… Continue reading The strategy …

I don’t know if this will be the place where I record the entire Prequel to Biome NE47, or not, but this is where I’ve just finished ‘Take 2’ of the first scene, for publishing to the Portfolio page. It’s rather primitive! I’ve arranged some insulation material around a fire guard that sits rather neatly… Continue reading Recording studio . . .

How fluffed the earnest peacock’s tail How fluffed the earnest peacock’s tail compels inamoratas with eyes that dazzle to prevail on target hens that matter. He’s not unlike the  crocodile, whose scales the muddy Nile break, who grins, as fish swim in its smile,  behind its fearsome teeth gate. As well,  the hippopotamus, basking in… Continue reading Honing technique …

In fact, the odyssey seems to be as long as the writing itself!  When my work organising, collating and writing for the Allendale Diary was finished, all 366 daily entries neatly compiled and formed into a comprehensive ‘Year in the Life of a Village,’ I decided to return to a dream of writing fiction. This… Continue reading And it continues …

Stories often begin at the beginning, but the story of Biome NE47 actually starts, in the author’s mind, some thirty years from the beginning. But who is to say when the ‘real’ beginning actually was? Hard as it is to fathom a beginning of an historical event, it’s even harder to put your finger on… Continue reading In the beginning …