Poor Matt Webb. His server hard disk died on him, leaving him trying to recover the data he could, and thus we are bereft of Interconnected. He is, however documenting the recovery and keeping a weblog of sorts over at a blogspot site. And on it there’s a marvellous description of the magic to be found in physics classes. It’s a wonderful piece of writing: inspirational and yet clearly by someone clued in to, and geared up by, what they’re writing. Sometimes Webb posts things I barely understand; sometimes he posts things that make me doubt his grip on reality. This, though, is neither; it’s wonderful.
And as I read his writing, I remembered something: I want to write a book. I just have no idea how. (Or where to begin. Or how to construct a story without needing to research every detail to death).
MacDara | 13 Jan 2004
You know what? I want to write a book too. And I also have no idea how. Or where to begin. Or how to construct a story without needing to research every detail to death.
Did you see that short series of documentaries on BBC 2 last year on writers and how they write? Sure, we’d all love to be like Rob Newman and swan off to Mexico on the pretense of ‘research’, but we haven’t got the money, nor the time. Nor the fanatical stand-up gig following that almost guarantees that the majority of his initial print run won’t have to be pulped. But anyway…
While I’m here, I’m working on a couple of Omnivore stories. (I’m still here! I haven’t forgotten!) You’ll get one of them by the end of this week.