After I completed my first draft of The Chimney Rabbit and the Underground Mice, I took a break from writing for a little while. I’d gone straight from finishing The Chimney Rabbit into editing it, then straight into writing the sequel, and while working like that does have some benefit in the momentum it generates,… Read More
Month: April 2013
The Underground Mice
Two nights ago I completed the first draft of the sequel to The Chimney Rabbit, entitled The Chimney Rabbit and the Underground Mice. They say that everyone has one novel in them – at least I know now that I’ve got more than one. After so many years of writing without ever coming close to… Read More
A gift from the Culture
Earlier today, the writer Iain Banks announced that he was dying of cancer and had less than a year to live. I found this news quite upsetting, to say the least. It’s never pleasant to hear about cancer, and I’m sure most people have had cancer touch their lives at some point – it’s a… Read More