| Author | Message | ||
     Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.30.20 |
Well, I've just finished my new novel. God knows how I managed it amid everything else I appear to have taken on lately. But I have. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.167.138 |
Congratulations, mate! | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.169.217.52 |
Fry's the man. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.30.20 |
Thanks, guys. Simon, it's not as long as yours. The novel, I mean. Natch. | ||
| Colin Leslie (Blackabyss) Username: Blackabyss Registered: 02-2010 Posted From: 86.132.5.239 |
Congratulations Gary, does it have a name yet? | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.178.82.41 |
Well done Gary - looking forward to it. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 220.138.167.246 |
Good job, Gary. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.19.172 |
Oh, he's done it before. It's no big deal.  Is that the whole thing or first draft, Gary? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.30.20 |
 You tinker, Tony. Just the first draft, mate. Needs plenty of editing yet. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.19.172 |
Just when you think the tough part is all over it feels tough again, doesn't it? My book began breezily, and to go back to it after the ending I reached is very difficult. But some things, feeling the shape of the story starting to appear, is great and unexpected. Realising you can manage something. But we did good; Martin Amis recently threw an unfinished novel he'd been writing for ages away, you know. That terrifies me; I came close precisely three times with that one. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.19.172 |
Er, this one. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.30.20 |
I think Amis rewrote the whole MS from a different POV, Tony. It would be The Pregnant Widow. But yeah, the tough part for me is having to read how clumsy it all is until I refine it. It all looks bad, but it isn't really. Just needs a tweak. Like a sketch you turn into a drawing. Shape followed by detail. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.30.20 |
>>>Realising you can manage something. Yes, and that confidence born of knowing sustains you, you know. I hope you'll continue writing, Tony. Grind em out. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.19.172 |
Ha! Grind is a Mark Lynch word! Right now I am re-re-rewritng my opening scenes, what are must surely be the most valuable in any book. It's horrible tricky - action, drama, is easy compared with having to describe a person from scratch, set up where they are. I must have had more trouble with this than with any other part of the book put together. I heard Amis on the radio saying he'd started Pregnant Wife after chucking a book away. Hope he did use it, because I think anything is salvagable. And the idea of feeling all that work has to be binned is awful. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.103.170 |
Another one done...good news! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.30.20 |
I think that may have been the book Amis was writing about Islamism, Tony. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.200.240 |
(I didn't know this thread was here when talking to you on Facebook Gary!) Well done that man -Lets see more of you in print! -you have been quiet too long. gcw | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.30.20 |
I've been busy enough! I now have six novels in the bag. One day . . . | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
You spawny get. I'm a mere 29,000 words into mine, and I have to deliver in by August.  Well done though, fella. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
deliver IT | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.30.20 |
Well, that just goes to show how motivating a lack of a deadline is. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
I wish I could produce novels as quickly as you. I find them a bit of a slog, to be honest. But oddly I prefer writing novels to short fiction. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.30.20 |
A sharp knock on the occipital lobes should be enough to induce OCD. Failing that, I could do some brutal work to your basal ganglia. Either way, insanity and writing novels quickly will almost certainly result. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
Sounds good to me, mate.  | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.30.20 |
I'll bring my trepanning tool to our next curry night. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
Oddly enough, I've been doing some research on trepanning lately. Those tools look brutal. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.30.20 |
Only when wielded by a demented and embittered novelist. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.210.209.136 |
Great stuff, Gary. Looking forward to seeing its emergence. | ||
| Mark West (Mark_west) Username: Mark_west Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.151.35.154 |
Good news, Gary, well done! Six in the bag, eh? | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.167.254 |
Good work, Gary. Another man who never sleeps. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.30.20 |
Funnily enough, I only ever sleep properly when I'm this busy. Whenever I live in a graft-less vacuum, I lay awake for hours itching for activity. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.176.9 |
Chris Evans said on the radio today that the key to happiness was hard work. He's currently - in my eyes - the sage of the airwaves, that guy. He's become a lovely, wise and generous bloke. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.30.20 |
"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness." -- Sigmund Freud | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.30.20 |
Without work, leisure has no meaning or appeal. And vice versa, of course. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Without work we'd all have the time to think about how crap society is and start killing politicians. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.30.20 |
Like chavs do, you mean? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
No, they don't have the balls or the intellect. I'm on about real people, not two-legged vermin. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
Without two legged vermin, there are no real people |