Interesting challenge. Having dropped in all manner of clues and hints to what'going on - in the first three batches of 2,000 words for the Thursday Group - I'm now faced with the task of working out what is going on. Some of the clues and hints are dead ends, but the challenge is to work out which ones. It feels as if the answer is already there, and I have to, er, chip away the stone to find the figure inside. Kath called me an 'organic writer' the other day; that's what you are if you don't know what's coming next but would very much like to find out. Free range too, probably.
It's raining, and it's a Saturday morning, and the pressing task is to do the final edits on the page proofs of 'Ten Steps to a Bedtime Story', which are long overdue. The answer to the niggling problem there, curiously enough, came to me as I opened my eyes first thing. Shift the disclaimer to its proper place; bring a 'step' forward. I say 'curiously enough', because answers usually wait until I'm in the shower with shampoo in my eyes before coming to me.
Which is why I'm sitting here with wet hair and an A4 pad next to me covered in scribbles. I made it out of the shower, but couldn't wait for the 'information superhighway' to open up before me. Time between pressing on-button and being able to type is still a lot longer than time between taking lid off pen and starting to scribble. Does that make me an old-fashioned writer as well?
It's raining, and it's a Saturday morning, and the pressing task is to do the final edits on the page proofs of 'Ten Steps to a Bedtime Story', which are long overdue. The answer to the niggling problem there, curiously enough, came to me as I opened my eyes first thing. Shift the disclaimer to its proper place; bring a 'step' forward. I say 'curiously enough', because answers usually wait until I'm in the shower with shampoo in my eyes before coming to me.
Which is why I'm sitting here with wet hair and an A4 pad next to me covered in scribbles. I made it out of the shower, but couldn't wait for the 'information superhighway' to open up before me. Time between pressing on-button and being able to type is still a lot longer than time between taking lid off pen and starting to scribble. Does that make me an old-fashioned writer as well?