In between a 0700 start helping my daughter with a project before breakfast and finishing at 1730 hours, I’ve installed graphics on site, met with a client and designed the graphics our meeting was about, had those designs approved and I’ve penned a few hundred words of my novel. I’ve also found time to work…
Category: Requital Of Innocents
New title? Requital Of Innocents
It’s been a busy old Sunday for me, Up early – well, early for a Sunday – and busy with chores and things to do. Hens cleaned, a site visit to remove a sign that needs revamping, stripping old graphics from said sign, then cleaning and buffing it up ready for new ones to be applied. Sandwiched…
The Kerning (proposed first chapter)
Before The mercury had climbed steadily all week. Dawn came to Willow Forge and, creeping alongside it into the new day, came the inescapable threat of the thermometer reaching record highs. The heat, and that damned dry wind, certain to bring yet more discomfort to the town and it’s residents. A fifth consecutive day of…
The Kerning. (Early chapter)
***This is a chapter (draft at moment) that I intend to appear early in my story, “The Kerning”.*** September 1972. The boy. The boy had been taught not to cry. To show no weakness at any time. It wasn’t that his parents were cruel to him. Far from it, his mother and father adored him…
“The Kerning” – revised chapter, 30/01/2017
Present Day The sign on the window had grabbed his attention, its words proclaiming ‘THE BEST COFFEE & PIE IN TOWN!’ He loved coffee, and who didn’t like pie? But more than the promise of not only good coffee but THE BEST COFFEE IN TOWN, he was drawn to the sign itself, the words hand…
The Kerning. A little bit of writing this weekend.
I managed to get some time yesterday (Sunday) to pen a few more lines of my story. Here is what I (currently) think will be the opening line of chapter 1. “The boy had learned not to cry, to never show weakness at any time.” Intrigued?
Paragraph Planet..my submission.
I chanced upon a retweet from someone of “Planet Paragraph“. Its tagline is “The flash fiction website publishing one 75-word story (or novel extract) every day since 2008.” So, I decided to submit a wee bit of my ongoing story “The Kerning”. The site says it can take unto 6 weeks upload the entry for…
“The Kerning” – Chapter 4
This is the whole of chapter three four* of the story / book that I am endeavouring to write. * It previously was Chapter Three and is now (subject to change) Chapter Four. I hope you enjoy it. Thank you for reading. THE KERNING by Gavin Dimmock CHAPTER 3 4 It was the sign on the…
The Kerning is coming.
Great progress this evening. The background for Lister is coming along. He now has parents – with names and professions. They even have DOB’s!! And Lister now has a full name. But, I’m not going to tell you that yet. Sorry! The “Creative Writing Exercises for Dummies” book I invested in is paying off already….
Woe is thee!
I have to impart some grave news to my Lab (Lib) Rats. News that may well cause them to weep and beat at their breasts in anguish. Last Friday I bought myself an early Christmas gift from Waterstones in Leeds. A gift that i hope will give, and keep giving, me inspiration and encouragement as I…
First a title….now a cover!
April 20th – I’ve rejigged it. Still, not much closer to filling the pages. It just needs all the words that go between the front and back.
My Novel. “The Kerning”
Well, I’ve got a title. And a central character. Two actually. Plus, a rough idea of where it is going. It promises to be an interesting journey. If you are intrigued by the title, this may be of interest. It is the first page (after you’ve read all the “printed by and typeset in” stuff….
Gavin Dimmock. Writer. 