Hello everyone. I have been quiet on this blog lately. In part this is because finishing my novel has been an incredibly draining experience. Once you have produced a 103,000 word story, there are an immense number of moving parts, and working out which bits of the machine work and which are a little unsure—which moments speak with the character’s heart, and which feel unnecessary—which theme rises urgently out of her reflections and actions, and which remain invisible—it is a lot of head work. Juggling an entire imaginative universe, while also adjusting one’s one theory of the novel at the same time. It took more out of me than I realised. [Read more…] about My last month in London