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Notes on the Bleeding Obvious
This year I took part
in NaNoWriMo, a worldwide event where participants spend the month of November
writing a short novel (50,000 words, the same length as Brave New World ) in thirty days, at 1,667 words a day. I’m pleased to say I stayed the course. In fact as a professional writer I thought I should
aim for a total of 60,000 words, and ended up writing 70,000. I don’t know if the
finished product is any good or not – it’s too early to say – but the point was
not to be brilliant, the point was to have written a novel.
My friends and family will
attest that I have been loudly promising ...
Posted 14 Dec 2011 02:56 by Niall Leonard
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Absence of Malice
The tens – nay, dozens
– of readers who follow this blog may have been wondering about my recent resounding
silence. The fact is that for all of
November 2011 I have been taking part in NaNoWriMo, a world-wide organised hysteria
where the aim is to write a 50,000 word novel in a month and share the inevitable
fear, exhilaration and frustration at the same time as one hundred thousand other
people doing the same thing. Even at its
most challenging it is so addictive and engrossing that I feel guilty just
writing this note instead of getting back to my text. But I am learning, and relearning, an awful
lot, and some day when it is over I will ...
Posted 22 Nov 2011 04:50 by Niall Leonard
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Not Getting It In Writing
My agent, the lovely
Valerie Hoskins, recently launched the website www.vhassociates.co.uk to show off her
stable of writers (I’m the niffy old mule at the back… be careful, I bite) and
very generously asked me along. Of course,
wherever there shall be more than one writer present, there shall be also bitching
and moaning (see war stories below)
and I found myself recounting one particular incident that usually I manage to
blank out of my mind.
A few years back I was
hired to do a rewrite on an episode of new TV series, very close to shooting. The director – an old film-school friend –
had recommended me to the producers as someone who could write ...
Posted 17 Oct 2011 03:15 by Niall Leonard
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