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Tag Archives: backstory
Beaten To It?
…but hopefully not with a paddle. I spotted this in W.H.Smith at Northampton services on the M1 last weekend. I’d realised my novel’s title is a bit of a hostage to fortune. I like it because it works in conjunction … Continue reading
Broad Beans and Sea Urchins
I was in London today and took the time to do a bit of novel-related research. I’m planning on setting a small part of my novel in the Tate Modern and so thought it might be in the spirit of … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Writing Process
Tagged aphrodisiacs, backstory, broad beans, Daunt Books, food, Gerhard Richter, iguanas, London, psychology, sea urchin, setting, Tate Modern, The City, The Shard
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What Happens in Vegas…
…ends up in my novel. This may be something of a surprise seeing as most of it is set in an English country pub which, apart from the copious amounts of booze drunk, is probably one of the places least … Continue reading
Posted in Influences
Tagged backstory, Beatles, contrasts, Emma, James, Kim, las vegas, psychology, Research, sex, theme
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Schumpeter on the Art of Management
My ex-City coursemate Michael Braga shares with me a love of The Economist newspaper that must be very unusual among writers — many of whom probably consider its readers as the evil spawn of the global capital machine. I must … Continue reading
Posted in Influences
Tagged artists, backstory, business, Creative Writing Classes, MA Creative Writing, management, Schumpeter, The Economist, theme
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The German Fourth Plinth 2013
Here’s me for various complicated, meandering reasons, writing a novel about a German artist in London, which seems a bit esoteric but, come 2013, almost every visitor to London is going to see a memorable work by a German artist … Continue reading
Posted in Influences
Tagged artists, backstory, Fourth Plinth, Germania, Germany, Katherina Fritsch, Research, Zeitgeist
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Opening the Novel?
Unlike the majority of my fellow students on the City course I’ve not approached the writing of either of my novels-in-progress in any kind of sequence — either chronologically or in anticipation of the eventual order in the book. I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Structure, The Angel
Tagged backstory, computer programming, fire, inciting action, James, Kim, non-linerar thinking, opening chapters, planning, Plot, plot points, real life, Structure, tutorials, Village Underground
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Kim’s Hometown
We got given some homework yesterday — to write in one of our characters’ voices about their hometown. Strangely I didn’t leave it until a few hours before the next class to think about starting it. This probably followed on … Continue reading
Re-Think
One book I bought a while ago and have been trying to start reading in the New Year — it’s ‘Too Big To Fail’ by Andrew Ross Sorkin — subtitled ‘Inside the Battle To Save Wall Street’. It’s not a novel … Continue reading
Posted in Work in Progress
Tagged Andrew Ross Sorkin, backstory, James, Too Big To Fail
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