I have finished the first draft of my 6th novel.
MA tutor James Hawes said to me, tantalising, that the trick of a novel is to find a simple plot and narrative to hang ones best work on and that my best work is my poetry.. Would anyone be able to read it who wasn't a mathematician or philosopher? Why can't I write about what interests me? Searching for a tense and a title. As it happens I do have some ideas for another project..
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I calculate that I need to write two more chapters for my novel.
These need to be authentically hand made. Colin Wilson's name has come up. I have absolutely no idea of other future projects. This is refreshing. All my resources have been tapped. Looking forward to reading Iain M Banks Hydrogen Sonata. Only one major chapter of novel left before attempting a turn and denouement. And then they'll be a much required edit.
Although it seems I've written a novel in a month its actually taken two or three years I'm not sure which. The notes toward has taken that long. Iain M Banks 'Hydrogen Sonata' has a attractive opening pages. I've reached the 75% point of my novel without coming up with an idea for the next. Maybe I'll even edit this one properly with the others and submit. I've written 50, 000 words of my new novel.
A simple plot with all one's best writing hanging from it. Interested that Blake Morrison's The Executor received an indifferent review. I'm doing something quite different to him. I was described as a poet rather than a novelist at a friend's launch last night, That I spurn the novel. Its not quite true. I'm writing six novels and six poetry collections. One day soon I'll edit them all and submit. Mcbrides A girl is a half formed thing .didn't grab me.
My novel may be too much for many. But given the 100, 000 words of notes its coming together without despair. I've never written with such an abundance of notes which are really the remnants of another abandoned project. Already anticipating the next project. Perhaps it won't come and I can concentrate on editing. Iain M Banks Hydrogen Sonata has nice big font. I've decided for a normal length book. 70,000-80,000.
Its a skill to write economically. Half-way through now, 'A girl is a half formed thing' is a very different example of writing distinctly. Penrose's Obit for Stephen Hawking was strange calling him the disabled Oracle at Delphi, talking of his bad moods and enigmatic statements while hardly at the absolute forefront of his field. Death's End diluted itself in its second half.
My next novel. 80, 000 words or 150, 000+. The way its written suggests the shorter is better. Hopefully judged in terms of Thomas Pynchon, Elmear McBride, Will Self's Umbrellas to be honest I'm probably a third of the way in. I read that Blake Morrison wrote a novel around a collection of poetry which wasn't clearly successful. Mine is partly a poetry collection plan of the novel presented separately. At this stage I have no idea what projects will follow Perhaps I'll have to even edit something for publication. To read Pynchon's Inherent Vice or Iain M Banks Hydrogen Sonata.
The difference between Infinite Space Turing Machines. Infinite Time Turing Machines and Turing Machines to the discrete and continuous. The Undecidability of Physics. The Reals and the iterated Dirac operator. Hume-an bundles of perceptions with a putative habit of association.
Without an underlying parallelism there is neither nature or self Without a causality of ideas Consciousness may not beget a constant conjunction The Godel-ian sentence within machinic power. Cambridge Analytica.
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