Just a short one. I am setting myself the challenge this week of writing 15 000 words (by midnight Saturday), thus taking me to 40 000 words, which is a significant number and should constitute roughly a third of the book. This blog will function as my public accountability. Rather than posting a new blog [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Breaking backs
Posted in The writing life, writing solutions on April 12, 2009 | 9 Comments »
The best laid plans of desperate novelists…
Posted in Deadlines, Kimberley Freeman, The writing life, Work/Life Balance, bottom of the roller coaster on April 11, 2009 | 9 Comments »
I am at home. I am not in Tasmania, where I was supposed to be. Instead, I am stealing a few minutes while the children watch a Yo Gabba Gabba DVD, to catch my thoughts.
Astrid came down midway through the week with a violent gastro bug, and Mirko and I have been cleaning up vomit [...]
My magic trick
Posted in Kimberley Freeman, The writing life, favourite things, top of the roller coaster, viewpoint in fiction on April 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »
It works like this. I get up in the early morning, while it’s still a little dark. I tiptoe past the kids’ room and shut myself in my study. Then I start writing. And words come. They don’t sit dammed up in my brain behind that invisible forcefield. They come out of my head, down [...]
