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Latest blog posts from Cementum - The creation of a novel
Writing and risk taking
Taking risks with my writing, I’ve thought about this a few times but Mark’s recent post over at his excellent blog " Voice of your muse " has inspired me to blog about the subject. Ever since man has been able to constructively put pen to paper it’s caused everything from quiet... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago
Naming Characters
What’s in a name? Well, a lot I’d like to argue, actually a considerable amount when it comes to both the naming of the novel and the naming of the characters contained within. But as the title of this post suggests, I’m just going to stick with character names. I feel there are really... Read more...
Published a month ago
Staying Creative
I can’t decide if the post title is a statement or a question, to put an exclamation mark or question mark at its end. This is how I stay creative! Or, how do I keep staying creative, what stokes my fire, what parts of reality make my brain tingle enough to shoot its custard all over my peers?... Read more...
Published a month ago
Writing a novel on the move
This is a post I’ve been meaning to do for a while now, considering all the traveling I’ve been doing with work and such. I got the urge again after a recent Anchored Author post by Tracy, so hopefully this will come in useful to a few people, but also explain how I manage being a completely... Read more...
Published 2 months ago
Following your dream
Time for assessment I think. It’s been a few weeks since I last posted, in that time I’ve completed the first nine chapters, totaling 55,643 words. I’ve had it tidied up by an academic, sieving all the grammar and punctuation mistakes and generally cleaning it up, and I’ve sent it to the... Read more...
Published 2 months ago
Surrealist writing for a novel?
I love walking into my local G&D’s cafe in Oxford, grabbing a cup of tea, opening up my laptop, sitting down in the middle of the room, sticking my headphones in, looking at faces and letting go. Controlled breathing, a straight back, lots of sugar, appropriate music, and letting my mind flow.... Read more...
Published 2 months ago
Writing about the devil within
The duality of man is a subject that philosophers and authors have fought around for some time. I doubt my 8500 words in Chapter 8 really do the subject much justice when you’ve got masterpieces of literary history like The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. But I’ve given it a go, and... Read more...
Published 2 months ago
Writing about love
Arh, now, there’s a subject, if not THE subject. To end, to beat, to change all other subjects, topics, themes. I’m finding writing about it almost as difficult and pleasurable as the actual experience. Through the fire so to speak. Love. It’s intrinsic to human nature, yet, not everyone... Read more...
Published 3 months ago
Finding answers with my writing
On an instinctual level I like to believe books are there to raise questions, to grip you by the throat and make you challenge everything you every thought was right. They can make you surf an emotional tidal wave of epic proportions, bringing forward all the greatest horrors you had never even... Read more...
Published 3 months ago
Why am I writing a novel?
“Why are we here? To have fun, or get the job done?” Approx quote " Hunter S Thompson " Fear and loathing in Las Vegas Well, as Dr Gonzo so infamously replied - ‘To get the job done of course’. But still, a difficult question to answer at this juncture. In my first post on this blog I... Read more...
Published 4 months ago
