Wowee, the “Give U More” video has had 2474 views on YouTube since Tuesday morning. I thought only cats playing the banjo got watched that much, so thanks everyone! We’d love to get your ratings and comments so if you fancy saying anything please head over here to...

I did it!!!!!! Never did find out who Bruce Fish was, but that’ll come in the second draft, I’m sure. For now – woooooooooooooo!!! Thanks to everyone for being so supportive, especially @solobassteve, MasonicBoom and @eph_brinkley. Here’s to next...

It’s nearly over, and by jove I think I might actually ‘win’ NaNoWriMo this year. After a surprisingly productive couple of writing sessions today my wordcount stands at 40,591 with three days to go. It hasn’t been easy. A few days ago my already bleak-ish story started getting worse,...

It’s NaNoWriMo day 22 and my word count is a respectable 26,589. I’m behind the ideal word count by some margin but I like my story and I am stubborn. Today I plan to keep coming back to the laptop for half hour bursts in between all the...

I’m all about the challenges these days, what with the recent half marathon and now NaNoWriMo, so when I saw one of my favourite blogs, (ex-Sleater-Kinney guitarist/vocalist) Carrie Brownstein’s Monitor Mix, was encouraging everyone to celebrate home recording this weekend by writing and demoing a brand new song I was...

Lagging behind at 12,741 words. Hmph. Pregnant friend safely out of hospital and boyfriend safely off on tour though, so I should be able to focus more over the weekend and hopefully catch up. Tonight’s writing was nothing special but it’s good to get in to it again. I have...

In the ultimate display of public procrastination I have posted all eleven chapters of my NaNovel on my shiny new Posterous blog. After three days of no writing due to work, work, work and exhaustion I am trying to get going again and managed another chapter this morning before...