As proof of the efficacy of leaving a novel to marinate, I woke up this morning with a new idea which should make more sense of the whole thing. All I have to do now is to write it all down! (yes, that's the hard part) 'Frozen in Crime' has been sitting on my computer …
Under blue skies
As I wait for my novel to marinate, I've mostly been stuck indoors looking at rain pouring on to the conservatory roof, but today I should be able to get on with some long-postponed gardening which I am hoping will encourage me to mull over the story-line and come up with some inspired improvements! Of …
Left to marinate
Although I've now written 'The End', the latest novel isn't finished. It now has to go through the essential stage of being left to marinate before I even look at it again. I'm actually almost desperate to get at it and move things around and add more explanation in the final stages, but I'm not …
Milestone in the snow
The badge I'm about to copy in below demonstrates that I've 'completed' my Camp NaNoWriMo novel 'Frozen in Crime'. Don't get too excited - I haven't actually written 'The End' yet and also there will be a few months of editing before it can be released into the wild, but the basis of the first …
31,000 words in
I hope Pitkirtly fans will be pleased to hear I'm now well into the 5th novel in my mystery series. Already the vague plot that was in my head has mutated into something rather different, and I am slightly dreading but also looking forward to the next scene I have to write, which looks like …
Dorte Hummelshoj Jakobsen – mystery writer
I'm happy to welcome a guest to my blog today. Dorte Hummelshoj Jakobsen is a Danish mystery writer whose characters are from the town of 'Knavesborough' - though by the sound of it they would be equally at home in Pitkirtly. Now over to Dorte: First, a warm thank you to Cecilia for inviting me …
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Countdown to a novel
This week I'm on my final countdown to the 1st of June, when I will join Camp NaNoWriMo and attempt to write the next novel in the Pitkirtly mystery series. I imagine the week will go something like this: 5 (today, Sunday 27th May) Panic about not knowing where to start - try and think …
Introducing Lynda Wilcox
Please welcome my guest for today, Lynda Wilcox, another UK mystery writer. She has just published her new novel 'Strictly Murder' as a Kindle book on Amazon - http://amzn.to/K1MC6U. Lynda talks here about blurbs, which are indeed impossible things to write. Who would have thought summing up all those months of work in two sentences would …
Unseasonal setting
Here's a small clue about what time of year it will be in Pitkirtly when I am next writing about it in June. (no, this isn't a comment about the Scottish summer, although anyone was caught in a hail/snow storm in Edinburgh yesterday might beg to differ)
Adapting to survive
An update to the previous post: I see Camp NaNoWriMo is going to run in June and August this year, so I may have to bring forward the planned Pitkirtly novel to June - or put it back to August. Just in case I decide on June, I've now started on the first phase, which …
Cecilia Peartree - woman of mystery 