Still 'Ronin' on.

I am still writing about Ronin, I'm keeping going and see where my mind takes me. I did well this morning, writing a lot on the train, almost missing my stop in fact, but less on the way home.

So now you know. What I wanted to tell you all was that I wander, I have very definite ideas of what I want a chapter to be about and ideas of how to get there but it never quite works out like that. For example, I need Ronin to discuss freedom and the complications therein but instead he ended up discussing predator/prey relationships and the future of the Harlequin race. I like what I wrote, don't get me wrong but it's just not what I wanted to write. I know that the author of a text is on a journey of discovery and things will happen in the books that were not foreseen but even so.

Oh well, I have more travelling to do later so I will try and writ his freedom later today.

DR

Started again.

If you have been following my twitter feed, you will know that things have been going very a-pickle over the last week or so.

However...

I am delighted to note that today I did writing, quite a bit and it wasn't so bad. I was writing a conversation between Ronin, I know, I said I would change but I may not, and Bast his chief intelligence officer. They are discussing possible futures for the ships under Ronin's command.

With interesting results.

It took me in a direction that I din't anticipate, but the other stuff will have to go in soon anyway.

I won't be writing tomorrow or Thursday but I'm definitely good for Friday. This just shows you the power of headphones. (See Twitter)

This post is bitty but I wanted you to be the first to know.

As ever, comments are welcome.

DR

I feel obliged to apologise for my complete failure to write today. Just so you know, we mow have public holidays in France so no work, no travel and thus no writing for the next few days.

Sorry.

DR

Well hello everybody.

I'm back from my sojourn in the big apple and i'm disappointed to report that in terms of writing, i have done precisely zero. I'm very sorry.

For those of you who also following my twitter feed you may also be aware that i left my headphones at home. It is the reason that i am blogging now as opposed to later. I will try to write but generally find myself distracted when i can't block everything out. I'm sending this from my phone instead of writing. It's something about coming back off holiday too. I often find, as has been previously noted, that holidays tend to knock me out of my rhythm. All part and parcel of being in France, where endless holidays are enshrined in law. I know one person who gets, wait for it, 57 days holiday a year. A little over eleven weeks. I do have other holidays coming up too although running counter to that is the knowledge that i have quite a bit of work over the next few weeks too. Generally i write on the train and lots of work means loys of train travel. Still, i imagine that alot of writers struggle for rhythm at times.

What will happen will happen.

DR

Well hello...

Hello everybody,

And a particularly warm welcome to Teresa who has left me a message. Her previous attempts had been thwarted by updates and problems. I am yet to go to work today so I am yet to do any writing.

I will blog again later, hopefully having written something.

DR

Well the exciting news is that i finished another chapter today. I have decided that i will change character on my return from New York. The next problem is my subject matter. I need to think about it more before i commit it to paper. Ronin is being introspective without getting to the heart of the problem. I hope that my readers will notice that he is trying to resolve an emotional issue but is treating it as a mental challenge. He cannot resolve it because he doesn't understand it.

My apologies that this blog is short but i'm sending from my phone.

DR

Twitter Feed

I have been doing lots of exciting things with my Twitter feed, something I wholeheartedly encourage you to follow. Not only you you get updates whenever I blog here but you will also get audio blogs and hopefully video blogs in the not too distant future. Pictures are also coming on the twitter feed but I intend to put those on the blog as well for future reference. I have had a busy week, with my cousin's daughter here in Paris and organising things for my holiday. Yes folks, another holiday is winging it's way towards me, I will not be blogging from 9th to 17th May inclusive as I will be in New York.

Nor will I be using the new found powers of my twitter feed. On the plus side, I hope to have written some more of my book to discuss on my return.

I, as I hope you are aware, have been writing about Ronin. He is currently having an in depth conversation with one of the other characters. I might leave it there for the time being and then come back to him. I might do the following chapter too, I don't know. I will then move to a different character for a while though I don't know who. I have a feeling it might be the Dumru; Thorbardin.

We shall see. Still, just as I depart on holiday again, my writing seems to have returned. I will try and get as much as I can done before I go.

I shall try to address the current intermittence on this blog too.

Get in touch, I would love to hear any comments.

DR

The state of play.

Hello everybody.

I haven't written anything recently. Here's why; Normally I write on the train and I haven't been working as much as normally over the last few days. Secondly, the creative juices seemed to have clogged shut. I'm not sure what it is that makes it come and go. If I did know, I would bottle it and be a millionaire by the end of the week. I have heard many people say that external stimulus can inspire it, I will go to New York and see what I make of that. On the other hand, that is an external stimulus and I am trying to stimulate myself internally. Surely I need internal stimulus. To that end, this blog may go a long way off topic in the next few weeks. Invariably, to stimulate myself internally I read, last time it was The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant. Currently my bedtime book, which I'm rather enjoying, is The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. But that is my bedtime book. I think that this time I might pick up Nietzsche or Descartes and see what they have to say for themselves.

Reading texts such as these allows me to think about me more and as such, my book is just an extension of this. They are my ideas after all.

DR