Revelations

I had a couple of sudden revelations about my Rufa Rujab story, the sort of revelations that other people pay me to have about their writing. First, I realised that there is no real tension in the story, no stakes. Second, I realised it is far too linear, and if I am writing a novella […]

Sepang stockpile

The delivery company says that the reason my laptop has spent the last 10 days in their warehouse in Sepang is because someone somewhere forgot to pass on the appropriate documentation to customs. This, they say has now been done. I have not received a daily update about the laptop being in the warehouse, so […]

Biofilm

I read a fascinating article on microbes and their group intelligence, and useful one too, as I have an unfinished story (yes, one of many) in which biofilms play an important role. Lovely images too. Other than that it was a quiet sort of day, spent struggling with a couple of quite poorly written documents. […]

And another

12 Rabi-al-Awwal is live too. Please pardon the execrable drawing not to mention complete inability to use an Apple Pencil. This is why I don’t write and draw under my own name.

One inch up goes live

Dipped my toe in the water, put a story online: One inch up, one of the rare stories I successfully completed. Don’t expect the floodgates to open though.

Brunei

Brunei was in fact as boring as it is advertised. The Gentleman Friend was unwell, though as I said to him, he could hardly have picked a better holiday spot to feel unwell in. The Empire hotel was blingy and expensive and had a Costa del Sol feel to the pool areas but comfortable and […]

Word hole

A few days ago a word fell out of my mind. It fell as though it had been greased, and every time I tried to pick it, it flew out of my hands and disappeared again. I could remember words adjacent to it, and a few times I googled them to remind myself, but as […]