Off on a Tangent- Writing A Novel Page by Page

This week has been rant filled, I've reduced them down to five relevant ones for your delectation.  So, listen to me fulminate on education and the exams debacle, ludicrous notions of ownership of women in 2020, 'Golden Ages', gatekeeping and telling...

So many tangents. Still talking about the writing of my novel, but this week it's all about setting the direction clearly.Lets drive through France, taking wandering thoughts through gender representation and the use of he/she and the importance of...

Episode 4, dear me.  Here we meet Clem in the back of a down at heel pub, dancing with a stranger in glittered heels before they go off into the night together and think about how music can inspire words.  I go off on a rant about society's way of...

Episode 3, where we meet Sam and run away.  We discuss the sentence lengths, create distance between our friends and finish by getting sexy with the undulating curves of a draining board.  Oh, and decide whether to break the law on smoking in a café.

We discuss a love of swearing and how that started the whole project; the problems of gender and how gendered language is so pervasive; how the podcast and the work in progress got its title before finishing with an exploration of the whole planning...

Welcome to the start of this little project, where we look back at all the failed writing projects over the years and reflect on thrilling things like why I write, why I keep abandoning things at 60,000 words and what do you do if you don't have to hide...