TW3 - Friday night, allowed to stay up late despite not entirely understanding the satire of Willie Rushton, not sure whether or not David Frost was a pain and loving the husky break in Millicent Martin's voice, but knowing that this was something new and shocking.
But I'm more referring to the past week - a scratchy week of grey cold, lots of reading (a Good Thing mostly) and bloody editing. Sometimes editing feels good, improvements flow and you know things can only get better, but last week that 'are you sure you're not overwriting, losing the freshness?' question kept asking itself. Over both novels, which are at the same stage, despite having been begun six months or so apart.
The reading has been mixed: three fast-paced, violent, noir, damaged hero crime novels (Ken Bruen, Declan Hughes, Ray Banks), all superbly written but a factor in my mild dissatisfaction with what I've written (and no I do not want to emulate but in admiring one can't help but measure). Frances Fyfield, more thriller than crime but much more 'English', and Tessa Hadley were equally enjoyable.
[N.B. do click on the top five book covers in montage in the right hand column for more information]
But yesterday I joined a group called WriteWords which promises much, provided I make the effort to participate.
This week's Prediction prompts are eldritch, manse and aristocracy, with the addition of syzgy if I fancy it. Not sure how Tao and Carrion Jack, or John Pettinger and Raptor are going to manage those (The story so far can be read on Pages, above.)
I loved TW3, what I've seen of it. And It's a Square World too. My staying up late as a kid was for Steptoe & Son, and Monty Python.
ReplyDeleteI have a plush dragon called Eldritch. (He wrote a book about some of his adventures. It sold better than my novel!)
ReplyDeleteI love weird words, of course. Not sure what I'd do with syzygy though.