Friday 28th September 2007 (pp737-745)

I had veered away from the central island man narrative here and was writing a play. It was kind of as if the island man was writing it. Also when you write a play you have margins on the side when people are talking, so this means you need less writing to fill each page. A handy trick if you have a page quota to fill. Saturday post will probably be late because I'm away.

Thursday 27th September 2007 (pp717-736)

Another epic 20-page day to catch up on recent slackness. It's the continued story of an old man I met at the bus stop. Involves drugs and toy cars, I think. Check it out!

Wednesday 26th September 2007 (pp713-716)

Little written today because we had a gig with A Scandal in Bohemia at the Joogleberry Theatre in Brighton. What a gig this was. Supporting were Renee Ansell, an octogenerian jazz singer and the transcendant Spoono on guitar. The theatre was pretty much full, probably because it was free to get in. And it was crowded and sweaty on the stage, and dark and loud and we got so many claps we even did a perhaps ill-advised encore. We finished feeling like we ruled the world and went on a trip in our hired van to return borrowed instruments to the university where we all met.

Tuesday 25th September 2007 (pp692-712)

Today I made up for the last few days by writing 21 pages (twenty-one). This was probably very close to the record of most pages I wrote in one day during this island man period. Probably about 4000 words. This is 5 times as much as Joseph Conrad used to write per day. It's probably 5 times as good too. Not really. It's probably five times worse than anything Joseph Conrad wrote, but so  is most published writing these days.

How did I achieve this? From a few glimpses, I can deduce to an accuracy of about 70% that I wrote a story that had been suggested to me by a meeting I had with a man at a bus stop in Newhaven who talked to me while we waited.