This Blog is Blocking me: What the F**k do I do about it?
It’s been a challenging year.[i] As a consequence, I missed last month’s blog post deadline and am perilously close to missing this month’s. The primary purpose of this article is to get something, anything up on the site. I am also going to explore some of the reasons why keeping the blog going is difficult, and what I can do to make things easier. You may find this post helpful if you also have trouble achieving apparently simple objectives.
I am writing a one-hour script to be broadcast as 5 mini-episodes. For my first draft I wrote the whole play as one story. But the structure requires more discipline: each segment must tell its own little story, seamlessly advance the main story, and end on a cliffhanger. How do I keep the action moving to make my mini-episodes compelling stories in their own right?
Last month I entered the 
Synopsis writing is essential but dreaded. How can you explain your whole story in a short summary? Recently, I had to drop everything and write a one page outline for my new novel. This is for reasons that will either turn out to be bloody brilliant or will be forgotten, consigned to history and never spoken of again. But whichever way it works out, getting the synopsis right was important. So why is it such a hard job? And how do you do it well?
Welcome to the new website! Thank you all for your patience while I painstakingly rebuilt from the ground up….