Jul 31 2001
I think the whole “making of a writer” headline might be a bit pretentious… could come up with a new title for this maybe. Or maybe not 
Archive for July, 2001
Jul 31 2001
Think I might get out of this old job sooner than later. It’s just no good to stay here anymore, watching all the people who survived the cull (or just got to keep doing whatever they were doing before) go on with things, while I’m in limbo with all the worst jobs left for me because there’s nothing else for me to do.
It’s only about money really … how much do I want before I get out of here? How much do I think I have to have - and will a few weeks more make any difference to me. Hmmm… probably not.
Jul 24 2001
Well I just gave my official decision to the boss (the old boss now leaving himself - which says it all), and I will be out of official employment in the next month or two. It makes it sound all so organised, all so professional, but the reality is I was pushed. I don’t hold it against anyone, I don’t resent anyone and I have certainly been happy with my time at my job (where that is I might not mention!), but I was pushed. Call it economic upheaval, call it totally fucking up - but that’s what happened.
Jul 23 2001
So why am I doing thing blog diary thing?
Good question I guess, since it probably is a given that few people will be reading it right now (that will change of course!)
Maybe it’s a diary for myself. To chart this important stage in my writing evolution. I’m ready to go all out and professional here and I know I am ready to succeed.
I will become a successful writer. A fiction novelist specifically. I am already part of the way to that goal (well most people who try don’t even complete a novel, let alone sell it - so I’m ahead there), but I will go all the way.
I don’t care about the odds, or the chances of success, or the facts of the industry or anything else. It can be done, new writer’s are doing it all the time, and I will be one of them. I don’t have to be a John Grisham level monetary success (though I would definitely not knock that back!) but I will do well enough to make a comfortable living.
It’s a given. I will do it because I say I will. It can be done and it will be done.
Jul 23 2001
I’m leaving my current job soon. But don’t take that to mean that I’ve quit.
The truth is, the job quit on me. It’s a funny thing when that happens. It’s called being made redundant, but they don’t make you leave. They send your whole work life into oblivion, so you’d be mad not to leave.
But it might just be the best thing that’s ever happened to me.
Jul 22 2001
Last thing for the night … I messed around and added my home email as a new account and removed the old account this thing started with - because that account used my work email address.
Pretty soon that email address won’t be there because I won’t be at that job. That’s a story for tomorrow though.
Moral of the story - make sure you use the right address on your blog account, because it’s damn hard to change things around! But it all works out in the end anyway
Jul 22 2001
Found a good story today on Telegraph online:
It’s a horrible URL, but it’s a great story. We all need more fantasy in our lives But I’m not writing a fantasy novel right now. But I know I will eventually (or it just might be in another medium even.)
Jul 22 2001
This is my website, and right now it’s the ever clever blog diary that will take centre stage. That won’t last forever, because I’m building the rest of the site behind the scenes here. But this is a good way to start. And I know the template isn’t that great, but it’s the first thing I’ll change I think
Hope everyone can read this format by the way. Whatever’s at the top is the newest thing and whatever’s at the bottom is the oldest. Keeps it simple.
Jul 22 2001
I knew it would work… it’s just a big thing starting this out.
Any writer will believe me when I tell you that writing a novel is the best thing in the world and the hardest thing in the world at the same time.
My first novel was real hard - and it was 6 years before I finished it. I didn’t write for 6 years, it just took that long to order my life to finish it.
My second novel? Well I don’t plan on finishing that in any less than 6 months.