I've committed the cardinal sin of blogging. My agent once gave me a piece of very sound advice that I've ignored; she said 'If you start a blog for God's sake keep it up or else it looks like you've abandoned your own life. Not good!'

I had such high hopes I wouldn't do that, so here's a very short post just to explain why; namely that the rewrite for Book Two of Fenn Halflin is taking SO DAMN LONG!

I had no idea a second draft would be this hard, but it is and it's taking me forever, so I've not had any time for thinking about other stuff. My new, improved deadline (yes, I had to ask for one -hangs head in shame, tail between legs) is in a few weeks so hopefully I'll be back to some normality then.

For those of you reading this because you're writing yourselves; good luck, you're not alone if it feels like a slog sometimes! It can be a real drag, you get back ache, you pray you won't get a trapped nerve again because you haven't the time to stop, your desk is a pit because you tell yourself you can't afford to stop for even 1 minute to clear away the empty crisp packets and apple cores. You get thirsty and your heart does a little somersault with glee because you find a day old half glass of wine hiding behind the monitor from your late night writing session and you think-'great that's two minutes saved not pouring one out' and knock it back after picking out the fruit fly....

But amidst the shameful, pig-pen moments, there are moments when you write something that feels like it works, and there was only that one way to say that particular thing. Then being a writer feels like the most brilliant thing in the world.

Now back to it!