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It is nearly done – one more blog to go

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“We are travellers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.” – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

My year of daily blogging is nearly complete! I began on the 3rd of January 2023, so I plan to end on the 2nd of January 2024.

The whole process has been far more testing than I appreciated when I started. And not just for me. Often the writing has had to happen in the early hours, which has slipped the blogs into a new day, although I’ve still counted them as in, ticking them off one by one.

Now the journey – this little stage – is ending. It’s given me deadlines, and it’s given me courage. I’ve learned that there is time, and how to insist on it, even though finding it has often disrupted the daily patterns of others. To them I owe huge thanks for their patience, and likewise to those who kept on reading. I’ve so appreciated and needed the generosity of both groups, especially as all I can offer in return is a project that has felt not quite real, like painting on water. Perhaps 2024 will be the year I can turn my writing into something with a little more substance.

One more blog to go …

Copyright Georgie Knaggs & The Phraser 2024

More ‘modernising and maintenance’

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It’s been one of those hot and bothering kind of days, but I like to think there has been some progress – not much ‘modernising’ perhaps but some ‘maintenance’ of The Phraser site.

This afternoon has been dedicated to retrieving postcards from the draft novel and trying to arrange them in some form of accessible order on the front page. I’m now about two thirds of the way through.

In case you have time to test the improvements please click on the Postcards 2023 heading in the menu bar which should then lead you to Draft of Uprooted. If you slide your cursor across that heading it should drop down to a list of six different groupings (1 – 10; 11 – 18; 19 – 26; 27 – 33; 34 – 39; and 39 – 46). Placing a cursor on each of those should pull up a list of the 500 word sections in each collection.

Hope it works. It’s taken me a while to sort out. Will let you know if/when I finish.

Thanks for reading.

Copyright Georgie Knaggs & The Phraser 2023

A few thoughts on writing

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Yesterday I signed as completed my own project of editing, and then posting, a daily 500 words from a draft story I wrote during lockdown. The point of the exercise was to force myself to keep working on the third draft of the not-yet-ready novel lurking on my computer.

The effort was way more than I’d bargained for, and so was my appreciation of anyone who took the time to look in – thank you!

What did I learn from the process:

  • huge respect for fiction authors, especially those who commit themselves to long, long periods of solo endeavour without knowing if anything tangible (ie an actual book) will ever result from the process;
  • double that respect for those struggling to fit such writing in with the demands of young families, or caring responsibilities, or full time jobs, or all three … or maybe just one or two;
  • walking away from my own writing for as long as possible is really helpful;
  • the terror and joy of having a reader, or even readers;
  • the power of a daily deadline;
  • the relief of finishing;
  • WordPress.

I cannot claim to be a WordPress expert, but the platform was straightforward and helpful. My next project is to see if I can work out how to turn the draft book into a podcast.

Thank you again for your time and company.

Georgie

Copyright Georgie Knaggs & The Phraser 2023