This is actually chapter 2 and I've written it like a transcription of a police interview. It hasn't been edited so please bear with any mistakes. Enjoy! Chapter 2 from 'A Terrible Beauty' From the transcription of the Police Interview with Benedict Ashton Case 410 Present – Detective Morris Franklin and Sergent Barry Moss, Benedict… Continue reading Nanowrimo Extract
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Day 4 of Nanowrimo
Word count - 5109 Status - Tired Plan - The tramp has lifted off a man hole cover and is going to bump the body down it... But still Ash doesn't know what to do about him. I have a feeling that it may involve a knife. This is an update on my book I… Continue reading Day 4 of Nanowrimo
Day 3 of Nanowrimo
Word Count - 5068 Status - Confused Plan - Where did the tramp come from? There is a tramp in the alley on page 17. He has seen the dead body... How is Ash going to get rid of the tramp and the body? How did I write in a tramp? Not only a tramp… Continue reading Day 3 of Nanowrimo
Day 2 of Nanowrimo
Word Count - 1600 Status - Shocked Plan - I have a plan... No I had a plan... Then the characters started to speak. Goodbye plan and hello chaos. I must try to make sense of what my heroine is doing.
1st Nanowrimo update
Word count - 0 Status - panicking Plan - to write something! Anything! And then not to immediately delete it....
The first Nanowrimo meeting and a re-plan
I was cool, I was organised, I was calm... I am lying. No, the first meeting was good, despite the fact I organised it in the middle of a demonstration and the university open day. Okay, that was bad planning as we all sat looking at each other whilst a huge group of people moved… Continue reading The first Nanowrimo meeting and a re-plan
The First Chapters that have been scraped for A Terrible Beauty
These are the first two chapters that I wrote and then realised they didn't work so well. Please ignore spelling mistakes and tense problems as they have been checked but not edited. Enjoy A Terrible Beauty Chapter 1 “Ash!” The voice cut through the crowded train station and a tall woman turned, the sneer on… Continue reading The First Chapters that have been scraped for A Terrible Beauty
When to Start
I'm doing Nanowrimo this month, basically I have decided to write 50k words over the next month - November. I have an idea, in fact it was my first dissertation idea - A Terrible Beauty. The Synopsis On a night train from Paris to Munich two sisters are arguing, one is dying of kidney disease and… Continue reading When to Start
November and my plans…
I have decided to write a novel in a month! I'm doing NaNoWriMo or the National Novel Writing Month. The rules are that I have to produce 50k words over the month of November... To date my word count high has been 16k over 3 months so I think this might be a stretch. But… Continue reading November and my plans…
Kate Murray - Cleaver 