Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! The end of a long day. He says at 7.51pm. I need more days like this. LCCN applied for, ISBN for 3 versions of The Gardener and The Goddess assigned, synopsis written, blurb rewritten and finalized. Cleaned up my office: I’m no longer in danger of being overcome …
Continue reading Long Day’s Rambling into Night (Gratitude and Random Thoughts)
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Well, I let a Tuesday slip by me at last without a blog produced! It was as inevitable as rain. In Scotland. But I have to say it was a surprise to me. I mean I thought I was going to write one at least twice yesterday, and …
Continue reading The streak is broken… Long Live the Streak!
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! This week marks the achievement of a blogging milestone for me. This is the 52nd week in a row I have posted a blog on Tuesday. Hooray! Now, blogging isn’t the powerhouse it once was in terms of garnering engagement, especially in my simple words on a page …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I'm 44.4-46.6% of my way through the copy edit, depending on criteria used, no graphic as usual. A word of warning: this is not my usual blog, it goes slightly longer, and takes a left turn along the way. Though you might think me discouraged by what I …
Continue reading A poorly researched partial polemic about reading standards
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Last week’s motivational chat to myself that I shared with you, worked. This blog, unknown to multitudes, ignored by many, read by the glorious few, serves a hugely worthwhile purpose in holding me to account when I have grown too lazy. Procrastination and delay can be addressed here …
Continue reading The Writing Life: Talking yourself into progress
In the month since I released my second book I have realised something. I was afraid of hard work after releasing my first book. I know why, it was because I read advice online, watched videos that said and repeated the message that a book on its own is nothing, that an author must have …
So it has been a while. I was going to call this Breaking the Silence II, but I decided to share this song with you instead. When I am in the guts of a pool match, and I or my team are a long way behind, I think of that song, and dig in to …
Continue reading The Writing Life: Ain’t No Way But The Hard Way
Today, when not drowning in work, I was thinking about analogies and metaphors and dusty tables. That is all. I also decided that I would set myself a small goal, and if I met it, I’d write a blog saying I had met a small goal. Because that is the kind of thrilling hi-jinks people …
Sometimes in the grind of writing, editing, marketing, and then selling your work it is easy to get lost. You forget the vibrancy of first ideas, the thrill of plot creation, the joy of characters growing beyond their first sketches and pushing against the boundaries of their originally envisaged roles. The slog of to do …
Thank you Kat for nominating me for this months and months ago! Finally - I yield up my answers and trivia! The Rules Acknowledge the person who nominated you! Answer the 11 questions Kat at The Lily Cafe asked me about blogging. 11 random facts about yourself. Nominate 5-11 bloggers. Ask nominated bloggers 11 questions. …
Roderick T. Macdonald 