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13:41 GMT, Wednesday 7th May 2008. *coughing, spluttering, nose oozing septic green slime* You’ve got to admire the predictable nature of man-flu. A well designed piece of viral engineering: for what purpose though,...
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19:24 GMT, Sunday 4th May 2008. Sitting at the barely used dinning table, next to the bay window at the front of the house. Large open plan lounge spreads away to my right. Through two archways I can see Jo in...
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03:35 GMT, Tuesday 29th April. Kneeling on my ergonomic stool, darkness pressing down against the glass of the canopy above my head, deep red glow from the lava lamp. Gary Numan - HAUNTED - is playing through the big...
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08:23 GMT, Friday 25th April. Barely awake. Finding it hard to get out of bed past few mornings. Not sure if it’s the weather…temperature and humidity rising…or the fact I’m starting to struggle with the book....
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01:05 GMT, Wednesday 23rd April. So here I am again. Back in the saddle at silly-o'clock. My brain snapped awake awhile ago and I lay in the darkness and silence of the bedroom thinking: christ, what time is it? My brain...
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08:32 GMT, Saturday 19th April 2008. Kneeling on my ergonomic stool with grey light filtering in through the canopy above my head. Life support is on...humming away to my right blowing warm air on my bare legs. I'm wrapped...
¦ dialling in from the Sky Bunker ¦ 20:50 GMT, Tuesday 15th April 2008. I'm wrapping up for the night. Been at the novel since finishing work, with a couple hours before work in the morning too. Now into Chapter 32, and 50,000 words in. Had a final design...
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21:44 GMT, Friday 11th April 2008. Breaking my golden rule not to work on the computer after 9Pm but fek it, I've been on a roll. JUst finished Chapter 29. I'm 47,000 words in. Not bad for three and a half weeks of effort....
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04:01 GMT, Wednesday 9th April 2008. Black outside. Very nearly black inside... just a wee lamp in the corner of the room throwing out a studious light the colour of dried parchment, and of course, the deep red infernal...
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12:34 GMT, Monday 7th April 2008. Lunch break. Sitting at my workstation with a mug of tea, following a delish spicy chicken pasty.
A stressful morning was interrupted by a beam of sunlight. A brown package...
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09:24 GMT, Saturday 5th April, 2008. Just returned home from a lovely little night out. Came home from work last night a little weary and saddle-sore. I cooked up some dinner, then dutifully climbed up into the Sky BUnker,...
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I’ve just finished chapter 20. That’s 31,000 words since 18th March. I had to go through a complex expansion of the underlying structure, creating four new chapters off-the-cuff that I’d not planned for,...
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07:01 GMT, Monday 31st March 2008. Kneeling on my ergonomic stool, sunbeams the colour of pale honey streaming in through the canopy above my head. Excellent weekend, not much progress with Edge but then...
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06:55 GMT, Easter Monday, 24th March 2008. Sitting at my parents old dinning table, tucked away in a corner at the front of the house. Nick Drake is playing on random selection through laptop & earphones. To my left...
I started the new novel, EDGE today. ...
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19:33 GMT, Monday 17th March 2008.
"Check it" by Gary Numan - circa 1977-78 is playing on random selection. I've hit that weird zone, where you finish something and end up shooting over the rim of a temporal cliff edge......
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08:52 GMT, Sunday 16th March. I'm kneeling on my ergonomic stool, just touched down into the saddle, hopefully ready to start a very productive, and quite significant day. Bright yet grey sky above me, large drops of rain...
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Crazy times. Not much writing done at all since the big push to finish Shadows of the Quantinex the weekend before last; a combination of exhaustion following the current intensity of the job with some heavy-duty...
Okay – so I’m a regular consumer of the best sushi in the world, a place called Yen Sushi.
I’ve now discovered something to fill the alternative lunchtimes…
The Whole Bagel
4 Upper Borough Walls, Bath, BAS1 1RG
www.thewholebagel.co.uk
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16:51 GMT, Saturday 1st of March 2008. Kneeling on my ergonomic stool, flesh pink and cooling from the hot bath I recently climbed out of - catching sight of the dense tangle of red, brown and white-blond hair that now...
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18:40 GMT, Sunday 24th Feb 2008. Sitting at the wide expanse of oak table in the cavernous lounge / kitchen; absolute darkness beyond the square lattice panes of the french doors to my left; mum and Jo reclined in chairs...
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03:39 GMT, Tuesday 19th Feb, 2008. Kneeling on my ergonomic stool, "That's Love, That It Is" by Blancmange playing by random selection on my laptop. Darkness presses down on the glass canopy above my head.
Jo and I polished...
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19:23 GMT, Sunday 17th Feb, 2008. Just dropped down onto my ergonomic stool, steam still rising from my skin after the hot bath I clambered out of a few moments ago... big glass of red wine... *slow smile*
Currently...
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02:52 AM on the 14th Feb, 2008. Life support is on, blowing warm air across my legs. TALK TALK, Living in Another World has just come on the laptop via random play.
Went to bed early last night - following the Monday...
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07:47 GMT, 11th Feb 2008...early Monday morning. Baby blue colours are seeping into the grey-gloom sky as night fades into day. A lava lamp is casting deep red light across the desk; Pink Floyd is playing on random selection...