I am a big fan of crazy, ambitious goals. I think it has a little something to do with being the kind of person who always starts projects the day before. Caffeine, cigarettes, and working well after midnight, fuelled four years of varsity. Not to mention years of being a journalist with a weekly deadline. While I’ve…
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I have this little chalkboard on my desk where I’ve written the word Believe. It’s about giving myself over to the magic of writing, and trusting that when I sit down to write everyday, the magic will come. Elizabeth Gilbert wrote a while ago that her first novel was the hardest thing she ever wrote, that the words…
Here is an extract from my forthcoming short novel, a magical ghost story set in Cornwall. The Postcard *** It’s only when I make to close the desk that I see it; a paper triangle peeking out from the metal arm. It’s tightly wedged, but after some wiggling I manage to pry it loose, only in…
I’m very excited to be taking part in NaNoWrimo this year. After spending the past six months finishing a novel; and years attempting to do that before, the idea of writing a novel in 30 days is, well, thrilling. Seriously. And quite uncharacteristically my second novel Glimpse has an outline, an actual 3000 word long…
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Just a short update on the novel progress. Yesterday I reached the 50,000 word mark, a new milestone. Whoop whoop. Quite a feat I think (ahem) as it is the length of a short novel, Nicholas Sparks’ The Notebook was 52,000 words and a Nanowrimo novel is 50,000 words. It’s taken longer than expected to…
Lily Graham 