Barry Walsh

Very late to this – two days gone already! – but I blame it on an overnight visit to Germany to see friends and celebrate Advent.

SloMo… I jotted a few ideas down for Room with a View, then decided I didn’t like them and another idea popped into my head this morning. Not sure it’ll work, but might play around with it this afternoon. I shan’t…[Read more]

A good last few days. This weekend I have sorted two probs with my revived MS, the ghost story A Record of Sin.

The first was the paragraph formatting. which was in a mess inherited from the days when I didn’t know how to do it properly. I’ve been through the whole MS and put it right.

The second was a last, rather tricky POV change. Tricky…[Read more]

True to form I am late to the party with this. I had a very good start to NaNo and a terrible end – but the good start enabled me to finish the first draft of a novel I’d been working on since 2013. It’s currently a 178,000 word monster, but I will use SloMo to start the long editing process, and also to write a couple of shorts.