by Andy | 8th Sep 2012 | Writing
The Third Rule is now at an end. It has gone away to be fettled prior to release and that’s more or less the end of my creative involvement with it. There was a tear shed, I can tell you. But we move onwards and upwards – or sometimes just a little sideways. And...
by Andy | 21st Aug 2012 | The Third Rule, Writing
I knew it was going to be a long book, somewhere in the region of 250-270k words. The average length of a novel is around 90-100k. Just before I completed it, I decided that I would issue it as three separate books, Part One, Part Two, and Part Three. But wait; it may...
by Andy | 14th Aug 2012 | The Third Rule, Writing
Well it’s taken me 9 years and 4 months end to end, to finish The Third Rule. That’s not because I’m lazy and it’s not because I’ve been in prison either. I broke off writing it to concentrate on other writing for six of those years. And...
by Andy | 12th Jun 2012 | Writing
You know how some things make you smile, and how some other things make you smile and give you a little tingle too? (think harder then). Well, I had a tingly smile or two this week when I read a 5-star review of A Long Time Dead and then I had another such moment when...
by Andy | 5th May 2012 | Writing
I have just completed a tremendously long edit on some work I thought I had finished a long time ago. I was so utterly wrong. But exceptionally fortunate too. You see, the guy who made and maintains my website (Lexidays), introduced me to his wife. Her name is Alison,...
by Andy | 13th Mar 2012 | Life, The Third Rule, Writing
After a sabbatical from novel-writing (I’ve been playing with scripts for the last few years), I have worked on The Third Rule for the last three months solidly, to the exclusion of everything else except food and sleep – and only if absolutely necessary; that’s every...
