Writing Duo

Spoke to my writing partner/muse Luke Openshaw who has taken on the monumentous task of reviewing and commenting on my writing. Being a busy writer of a novel and screenplay/director and having him spend time with me is valuable and I am proud to have him. If nothing else, even at this early stage I want him to write my foreward. The golden rule in writing is to write what you know, so I have been doing my research to increase my knowledge so it doesn't look like I'm blagging chapters. But the other golden rule (maybe a silver, you can't have 2 golden rules), is you should aim to write 1,000 words a day. Based on that a typical author should be able to pump out a 400,000 word draft novel every year. Consistency rather than cramming is the secret. I have no control over my mood or writing creative process, if it comes, if it happens then I write, which can be odd if you are somewhere you cannot really write, like when Im in the shower, toilet or at work! I'm under pressure, to get that first draft done, and Ive set November 2006 as the target. Once the first book is out of the way, I'm hoping that there will be interest in me writing further books. Which is a compliment, but they themselves have deadlines and expectations. And coming full circle, this is where Luke Openshaw comes in. He has already had a taste of agents and publishers in the book and screenplay arenas, and I'm hoping he will guide me through the process and steer me away from the time-wasters.