Month: February 2021

As I finished, or thought I was finishing, Chapter 5 of Biome NE47: Prequel, I looked back over the 50k words laid down so far, and thought, this is all very pedantic, a set of semi-intriguing strands to pull together, but . . . . . . . Where’s the drama? Or, rather, where’s the… Continue reading An emotional crunch

I can feel the doldrums coming. Halfway through Biome NE47, I felt overwhelmed by despair: this story would never resolve itself. As Margaret Atwood mentioned in a recent Guardian Book Club, novel writing is a kind of hacking through. It’s a necessary chore. Now just at the halfway point of Prequel, with all the components… Continue reading Chapter 4 and beyond

With the clever cuboid acoustic foam covering, over my Blue Yeti microphone, the ambient background noise is dramatically reduced, and the popshield seems to eliminate plosives as well! A little tidier than my sello-taped flyswatter, I think. Placement of an iPad at eye-level, with the laptop running the Garageband recording software, means that I can… Continue reading Audio refinements