Category: Blog

New Year, new me, new resolutions. Well, the resolutions are the same from the previous year and are the same from the year before that and so on, so on.

Goal: finish this damn novel. Whose current progress sits at 35,000 on a redraft with another 35,000 to be drafted. Or probably, more appropriately, to be beaten to a pulp and see what pieces I can salvage and make into something new.

Anyway, my one *new* resolution is to write in this blog every week and capture my success or fails and any stray thoughts I might the on the whole matter of writing.

Wish me luck!

Welp, that went swimmingly…

It’s been a month since I said I’d try be more regular with these posts but obviously that didn’t go well.

Updates: up to 68,000 words. That’s 1,000 words in a month. Must do better.

Re-Reading Grant Morrison’s Batman run at the moment. I also picked up two books from the local library on history of Dublin City. Particularly, one on the Viking Era and another the development of the city from 1910-1940.

I’ve had this web page for nearly ten years now. Haven’t posted much but going to make a start at being more regular going forward. So these will mostly be small bursts of updates, mainly once a week. Probably on the weekend.

So, current word count of my latest book is 67,000 words. Of this I’ve redrafted 25,000. Which means I’ve a long way to go yet. Yay… But my goal for the rest of 2024 is to finish redrafting and get ready to start another book sometime next year.

I’ll probably include things that are on my mind or things that are influencing the work as I go.

This week I’ve been listening to ‘The Foggy Dew’ by Daoirí Farrell for RTE on repeat. I’m also listening to Chris Gosden’s ‘History of Magic’ on audiobook. Fascinating discussion on the interlocking of Magic, Science and Religion.

Oh, finally I’ve found Bluiríní Béaloidis amazing to listen to. Currently listening to Stones of Strength in Irish Tradition.