Paperback, b&w, 2022, 101x152mm, 56pp

Overview

A small guide to all the things writers use as justification for not writing - notebooks, pens, sexual infidelity, that sort of thing.

Background

I’ve had a lot of long-running projects that, while not stalling exactly, have felt sometimes like they will never reach anything like an endpoint. Wanting to just get something finished, I blurted out this short How-To book, aimed at people like me who call themselves writers but often do anything but.

It’s basically a series of stupid questions, all of which have the same answer (It doesn’t matter. Just write.). Most of them are drawn from my own personal experience, when I’ve used all manner of excuses for not knuckling down and doing the work.

As the idea had been brewing for a while, I was able to put everything together quite quickly. It’s very short, so I did the first draft on Monday and had everything typeset and proofed by Friday evening. I used Ingram Spark (as I had previously on Forms) and the whole process reminded me of working in the production department at JKP. It’s the first time in a while that I’ve made an ebook and I had forgotten what a finickiy process that is.

Anyway, I think it’s a nice little book. If you know someone who writes (or claims they do) then it might make a good gift.

Writing.IE asked me to write an article about the book’s genesis. It’s almost all true. You can read it here.