I’ve found a mental and physical exercise routine that has worked for me while writing the first draft of my new novel which I finished on Wednesday and celebrated as a significant landmark even though I know that there’s plenty…
We’re not meant to enjoy undiluted pleasure very often in life and yesterday was no exception to that miserable truth. First the good news: I’ve finished the first draft of my new novel which is coming in at around 80,000…
In my eyes down mode, I’ve been coming to the final pages of my new novel’s first draft and yesterday, June 4th, went by without me recognising the 24th Anniversary of the tragedy of the Tiananmen Square riot, demonstration, or,…
The writing goes on. Sorry to pop in here so briefly again but I’ve just one chapter to write before finishing the first draft of a new novel. Tomorrow should get me to the end but until then I shall…
As you can see, I’m frantically writing at the moment and today’s blog has got a bit over-looked. I’m galloping towards the end of the first draft of a new novel – I should get there either tomorrow or the…
Living in Lewes, UK, you just have to know which side you’re on. On Friday night I was given a choice: turn right or left. I knew which way to go. Would you? It was a great night, in case…
My seat near the front of the stalls last night in London’s Royal Festival Hall meant that i could hear every note that was played in the Philharmonia Orchestra’s concert under their principal conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. The notes were worth…
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) There was a riot in Paris one hundred years ago yesterday, 29th May, 1913. The audience at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées were shocked, outraged and excited when Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe company gave Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring…
Living in England, a small island North of the land mass known as Europe and, of course, a part of Europe, I am lucky enough to be able to see the sea without travelling very far. Nine miles actually. After…