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Novel Blog #4: It’s World Book Day and I’ve Finished* Mine!

It’s World Book Day. At least, I hope it is, or I should probably expect a concerned phone call from my kids’ school after they went in dressed as Alice in Wonderland and a Nazgul from Lord of the Rings. It’s also high time I wrote an update to my Read more…

By Mathew James Westhorpe, 4 months03/03/2022 ago
Writing

Novel Blog #3: Milestones, Millstones, the Spectre of Uncertainty and the Destruction of Reality

I’ve just realised it’s been nearly two months since I blogged about my novel progress. It’s funny, over the weeks I’d thought of plenty of things to share about the experience so far (and honestly thought I had), but I suppose I was worried it would be a waste of Read more…

By Mathew James Westhorpe, 7 months06/12/2021 ago
Writing

Novel Blog #2: Long Covid vs Writing

When I decided to plunge naively into attempted professional authordom, I had originally intended to write a weekly blog to report my progress. However, it is only now, at the end of week three that I’ve found the time and the energy for the second edition. It’s been an unexpectedly Read more…

By Mathew James Westhorpe, 9 months24/09/2021 ago
Writing

Novel Blog #1: Distraction, Discipline and Writing in Wagars

It’s been a week since the kids went back to school and I’ve been able to resume my ambition to write a complete novel. It’s a running joke among writers that we are world-class procrastinators easily distracted by- ooh, squirrel! And have you seen this hilarious photo… What was I Read more…

By Mathew James Westhorpe, 10 months13/09/2021 ago
Writing

The Shunned

Mallory watched as the man died. He wasn’t as old as his haggard face looked, but his 37-year-old body had been broken by the ravages of their forsaken existence. Each gurgling breath was weaker, less perceptible than the last. His misshapen chest rose unevenly, fell, and then paused. She waited Read more…

By Mathew James Westhorpe, 12 months11/07/2021 ago
Writing

Michael’s Next Adventure

When my nephew Michael died last year, a little over a month after his 15th birthday, the greatest part of the tragedy was the future his fate had stolen from him. In the weeks after his death, I wrote a short story about what I like to think happened to Read more…

By Mathew James Westhorpe, 2 years15/04/2020 ago
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