This is the journal of an aspiring writer, struggling to avoid the temptations of the pub, the PlayStation and the telly in an attempt to get a novel out of his head and into Waterstones

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Sunday, February 13, 2005

Edging closer

Well, I managed to wring another thousand words out of my poor, over-worked brain today - have decided to reward myself with an hour on the PlayStation before Stargate starts.
Yes, I watch Stargate, there's nothing wrong with that - I'm not a geek dammit!
Alright, maybe a bit of a one.

Anyway, I'm now just over 86,000 words into my second novel - a kind of sci-fi western type thing (it's just an unrelated coincidence that I've read the Dark Tower books and David Gemmell's Jerusalem Man series). I reckoning it'll be about 105,000 words when I'm done!
My first novel was a werewolf style adventure. It was, I'm sorry to say, rubbish - as evidenced by the small pile of rejection letters I've collected. I still think there's a decent story to be had in there - just needs rewriting from the ground up is all!

Ah well, suppose I'd better start sorting my stuff out - planning to move down to Sheffield in a couple of weeks and I've got way too many old magazines knocking about!

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