by Clare Flynn | Mar 19, 2013
I’ve been trying to crack a plot problem and it’s been driving me round the bend. I can’t even decide if I want to simplify the story or make it more complex. I’ve been going round and round in circles (correction – in a vortex of doom)...
by Clare Flynn | Jan 11, 2013
I’m afraid I’ve been a less than conscientious blogger lately – and I plead the double excuse of the holidays (I’ve still had 2 parties this week!) combined with re-writing of elements of A Greater World at the request of my agent before she...
by Clare Flynn | Dec 3, 2012
Having completed my revisions to A Greater World and sent it back to my agent (a reworking of the way the protagonists meet) after a somewhat hesitant start, I’ve now begun a radical rewrite of Kurinji Flowers. Today my characters went to the movies at the...
by Clare Flynn | Nov 3, 2012
This giant stuck together spreadsheet is hanging on the back of my office door! I was feeling overwhelmed by the size of the task facing me in doing some fairly major rewriting of my novel, A Greater World. I’d make some changes only to discover I’d...
by Clare Flynn | Jun 16, 2012
I just broke through the fifty thousand word barrier on my new book Kurinji Flowers. Being here in Devon in the pouring rain is a great incentive to getting the words down. And even in the Devonian deluge, a good tramp down the country lanes always helps get the...
by Clare Flynn | Jun 14, 2012
I’m back here in Sheepwash Devon at the wonderful writers’ retreat run by Deborah Dooley. This is my third visit here and I was very chuffed to find that Anne Tattersall whom I met here last year is back again too – along with two other lovely people...
