You may have noticed silence and tumbleweeds blowing through this page over the last few weeks. I’ve been so focused on writing the novel that I have not found time to come here and share recent news. When I am lucky enough to have these periods of single focus, the real world seems to fade away and the fictional world becomes more tangibly real.

I’ll be back to regular updates soon. But in the meantime, I have compiled some Tweets from the last week or so and offer them as a kind of diary. You may pick up from them that there has been some struggle with the writing. And that is true. But only half of the truth. The wrestling with words has yielded a story which is really gathering momentum.

A diary in Tweets:

Some days I wake up thinking about the novel and rush my breakfast to get on writing it. Others, I think: "I have to find HOW MANY words?"

Sometimes writing is a breeze. Sometimes it's like turning a millstone by hand. Enjoy the former but value of the latter. That's my advice.

So, it turns out my arms weren't getting shorter. I do need reading glasses.

All people are one family. This axiom doesn't always provide simple answers to contemporary political questions. But it sure helps.

He winced telling me about his gallstones. But smiled informing me he had a novel inside him. Just wait till he tries passing it. #AmWriting

"I’m a creative man, Elias. Some say I’m cruel. But...


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