Tag Archives: novels

A story is the same length as a piece of string

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Mhairi Simpson

Another Flash Fiction Friday goes by without a flash fiction from me. The Smurfs are still languishing on my hard drive. It being a humorous kind of piece, I have to be in the right frame of mind to write it and … Continue reading →

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Agent research – the start of the Yellow Brick Road

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Mhairi Simpson

As you probably know, I finished my first draft and started editing. Strangely enough, my mind isn’t nearly as focussed on editing as it was on writing. I’m not feeling the pull, mainly because there isn’t one. The story is … Continue reading →

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Uphill struggle… the key word is ‘up’

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Mhairi Simpson

I wasn’t particularly happy this morning. I woke up and looked at the letter confirming my MRI appointment for today, just to remind myself that yes, it was for 10.30am. Except that it wasn’t. It was for 9.20. In an … Continue reading →

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Proactivity

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Mhairi Simpson

Today has been a somewhat frustrating day. In way that’s good – it means it can only get better. Problems will be solved, some of them simply throwing some time at it, people will move on, etc, etc. Of course, … Continue reading →

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Productivity, thy name is not Anne-Mhairi

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Mhairi Simpson

If you were so kind as to drop by this blog yesterday you will have noticed that there was no Friday Flash piece. In fact, there wasn’t anything new at all. I had decided I was definitely going to do … Continue reading →

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Editing. What to expect from a first draft…

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Mhairi Simpson

I’m exhausted today. Not because I’ve been working my fingers to the bone, slaving over a smoking-hot keyboard (the underside of it is smoking-hot and has slowly been cooking my right leg for the last several weeks). No, I’m absolutely … Continue reading →

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Death, Destruction and Despair – Writing Conflict

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Mhairi Simpson

I’m working on the synopsis for my next Splintered Lands story (bless them, they want me to write more) and I reached a point this morning where I threw down my mechanical pencil and whined ‘this is boooooooooring! Where’s the … Continue reading →

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Don’t slash and burn. Slash and save the offcuts.

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Mhairi Simpson

In a single morning, no doubt rather stressful for my manuscript, my ‘Extra bits’ file has gone from two pages to ten. The first three chapters of For the Love of Gods have been conflated into one and the whole … Continue reading →

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How much is enough?

Posted on April 17, 2011 by Mhairi Simpson

As sometimes happens, I’m not in a particularly productive mood today. This probably has more to do with my friend’s party last night than anything else, but it’s Sunday, so I think I’m entitled :). This post was going to … Continue reading →

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Editing. And marketing. This is the present continuous…

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Mhairi Simpson

I was walking down the road (as I do quite frequently these days), mulling over what I should post about today, and I thought of two things. Editing and marketing. It only occurred to me as I was typing the … Continue reading →

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