So I wrote the first 6,200 words of “Dead Rock Star” the other day. This equates to roughly two and a bit chapters. I handed it to The Missus and she pointed out that the concert scene needs to be extended and the death of the character was over too quickly.This is good and bad all at once. It’s good because, at last, I feel that The Missus is developed enough as a reader to see the inadequacies of my writing and isn’t scared to tell me, but it is bad because I don’t want anyone to say: “Hey – that bit is rubbish!”. What she said kind of tallies up with what I was feeling, but I am writing differently this time around. Before I was about getting it right in the first take – every chapter was delivered “as finished” and complete, whereas this time around I am writing a lot more freely and openly, leaving spaces for bits to be added on a second pass. I am not sure if this is a good way of writing or not, or whether I should go back to the “get it right first time” approach.
At the moment, I am feeling a little tense and afraid because we’ve no money and there’s not much work on the horizon. I don’t like it.

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