What's new?
BUPA London 10,000
Writing site
01/04/2008 - Happy Birthday to the sites! It is one year since the launch of this site and my personal site!
Time for a new name, and some updates!
30/03/208 - for those who haven't seen my weekly column, I'm starting to reprint them on my blog each week.
01/03/2008 - Sponsor me! You can't miss the links to my BUPA London 10,000 sponsorship page. Please be generous.
Podcast
The Clamouring to Become Audible... podcast is now uploaded every Sunday. Check it out, go to the Podcast link and subscribe!
What is Paul up to...
"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." - Ray Bradbury
It is fast approaching one year since I sat down and realised that there was a snowball's chance in hell that I was going to get a PhD and become an academic. And so it is fast approaching one year since I realised that I wanted to be a writer. So what have I done in these twelve months?
I've been in a writing group and received valuable encouragement about some of my work. Although the group has since broken up Jay, Grace and Brendan have left their mark on at least two of the projects I'm working on.
Despite a complete lack of script-writing experience (and only just making the deadline), I was selected by best-selling author Scott Sigler to be part of his writing team for a forthcoming project.
In late summer 2007 through a visitor to my site I discovered a website featuring writers from across all genres. It's strange to think that I only started posting on the Write Stuff in August last year, as I feel like I'm part of the furniture now - not only a regular contributor, but also one of the weekly columnists!
NaNoWriMo is a distant memory now. It was a valuable experience - I have never written so much, at such length, in such a short period of time. I finally managed to construct a story that has been rattling inside my head for a decade. I achieved the 50,000 word target, but realised the story is maybe only half told at best. I now need to return to it and finish it. The aim is to have the first draft finished in time for spring, then by the summer to have edited it to a standard that it can be sent to an agent.
Here ends the extended ego stroke...
Feedback is incredibly important to me for this site, so I would greatly appreciate your comments, criticisms and congratulations (!). I have a Contact form, so please make use of it. Some of you have, and that's been great. Some intriguing thoughts on the name of the site and questions about my inspirations were very encouraging to receive. Please don't be afraid to tell me what you think, ask any question you like, or simply bug the hell out of me about how the writing is going. This is never going to work unless I get some honest feedback!
