Week 1
- Read first chapters of Anomaline 2.0 to M and S. Found that I wasn’t too satisfied with the ’savvy’ voice, and miss the naive, fumbling language of the first version.
- Started learning a bit about GitHub and ‘versioning’, which may make it easier for me to more readily edit a large text like a novel.
- Got a computer, backed up HD 2 onto Dropbox
Week 2
- Completed recorded readings of first three chapters of Flatland.
- Saw ‘The Favourite’
- Listened to Debussy and Schubert at Southwark Cathedral
- Read a lot of Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, and enjoyed it. Noticed that the novel is not so extremely consistent, and that maybe consistency is not all important in my novel, either.
Week 3
- Finished reading Calvino. Started reading Not to Read by Alejandro Zambra
- Started writing in Bear-Sublime Text-Git
- Wrote a new bit of writing in Anomaline on the autumnal vibe of peeling plaster
Week 4
- Got into the flow with writing in Sublime Text and branch 3.0, worked from 3.30-10.30pm one day, just on the novel
- Had idea for Fitzcarraldo Editions book proposal, the ‘autobiography of a fictional character’
- Read The Lost Daughter Collective by Lindsey Drager
- Submitted my LAHP application!
- Started reading Tristram Shandy
Week 5
- Applied for a reading pass at the British library
- Submitted Bloomberg New Contemporaries application
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