If I were a Super-hero, I would say that I had an ability that I’ve never heard of in anyone else. maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t know of anyone who can both write a chapter in their mind and then break the chapter down into scenes and create the scenes in their mind. All this without writing anything down or putting onto a computer.

Is this something unique or can everybody do it?

How does this apply to me working on the 2nd draft of The Brittle Sea. Well, I can take the bare bones chapters and put ‘meat on the bone’ while I’m in the garden or taking a walk. Okay, it may not seem like a big deal and admittedly I can’t use my ability when driving or shopping, or anything else that requires concentration. But when my wife is watching a British soap like Coronation Street and I’m in the same room, waiting to turn over to something less dire, I can easily work out a chapter in 30 minutes.

What I do find hard is the actual writing, recording the information onto my computer. That takes an awful loot of concentration and in consequence a lot of time. Time is the big killer for any writer and lack of it means I don’t get to sit down and write in a pre-ordained time and place every day.

So the 2nd draft of The Brittle Sea is a slowly-slowly process or siga-siga as they say over here in Cyprus. You can’t rush it or you’ll end up missing something very vital. I learned that with my first novel, Operation Werwolf in which one of the characters changed names half-way through.

But I’m still determined to get the 2nd draft completed by the end of March, though it may well leak over in April.

‘The Brittle Sea’
The Titanic disaster is the catalyst that sparks a bloody feud between two families in early 20th century America.
Drama/Family saga.

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