With just one more studio day remaining to complete my album ready for mastering it’s time to turn my attention to visuals. There’s a lot to be done: photos, website, video content…all, for me, just as exciting and important as the music – more ways to tell stories. I...

* chest hooping – it’s so difficult but I managed three successful seconds yesterday and I’m going to try again when I’ve finished the video edit that is rendering as I type this post. * embracing change – new hair is happening! I’d forgotten how fun it is to create...

This month I have mostly been: - Getting snowed in to a nice cottage in the Scottish Borders, enjoying open fires and mulled wine and rescuing Benji from various scrapes including getting stuck in a hedgerow and falling through melting ice in to a very cold river. He’s clearly a...

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...

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...

With 8597 words tapped out so far this week I am on target despite missing out a day so I could try to banish my bout of flu once and for all with a lot of lovely sleep. My novel currently has seven pivotal characters: Carrie, Dan, Sol, Robin,...

Had to go and put that lyric in a song, didn’t I?! Though I took part in NaNoWriMo last year I didn’t complete the 50,000 target due to various overambitious slip ups – I can miss a day or two, or three, I’ll catch up!…um, yeah – and was determined to...