http://matlarkin.com Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:23:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://matlarkin.com/tlm/characters/comment-page-1/#comment-2743 matlarkin.com » Trench-coats. Trench coats. Trenchcoats? - the unrequited novelist Mon, 05 Mar 2007 05:09:55 +0000 http://matlarkin.com/the-last-monk/the-last-monk-characters/#comment-2743 [...] The Last Monk section of the site is now open, with a synopsis, information about the characters and the first extract from the book. I had promised to put up a bit of the chapter I’m currently working on, but that chapter is full of spoilers, so instead I’ve cut together a bit of fun from the broadcast of my reality TV show, the Rat Race. [...] […] The Last Monk section of the site is now open, with a synopsis, information about the characters and the first extract from the book. I had promised to put up a bit of the chapter I’m currently working on, but that chapter is full of spoilers, so instead I’ve cut together a bit of fun from the broadcast of my reality TV show, the Rat Race. […]

]]> http://matlarkin.com/tlm/characters/comment-page-1/#comment-2742 matlarkin.com » One false move and the space-time continuum gets it - the unrequited novelist Mon, 05 Mar 2007 05:02:22 +0000 http://matlarkin.com/the-last-monk/the-last-monk-characters/#comment-2742 [...] No, really, I have. In fact, the writing is progressing with a most stunning alacrity (I’ve moved on to Conan Doyle). The contents of the whiteboard, which the attentive reader will remember was filled on Monday with everything required to move my characters, themes and plot into position for the big, spectacular finale. [...] […] No, really, I have. In fact, the writing is progressing with a most stunning alacrity (I’ve moved on to Conan Doyle). The contents of the whiteboard, which the attentive reader will remember was filled on Monday with everything required to move my characters, themes and plot into position for the big, spectacular finale. […]

]]> http://matlarkin.com/tlm/characters/comment-page-1/#comment-352 matlarkin.com » The Whiteboard Dungeon of Semi-Formed Ideas - the unrequited novelist Thu, 13 Jul 2006 03:45:26 +0000 http://matlarkin.com/the-last-monk/the-last-monk-characters/#comment-352 [...] Hence yesterday. Yesterday my plan was not to add a word to my manuscript, a plan which, I can now reveal, succeeded beautifully. Instead of typing, which can be confused with writing, I cleared the nearest whiteboard and drew my last act. All of my major characters are involved, and all the plotlines get very close without touching. There are some things the reader needs to learn. Not all of them are true. There are also many things the reader shouldn’t learn, and I have to be very careful not to let someone blurt them out in an unguarded moment. This is harder than it sounds because, although it is precisely the kind of naff authorly pronouncement I exist to exorcise, fictional characters do not always do what the author intends. Generally, they do something much more interesting. [...] […] Hence yesterday. Yesterday my plan was not to add a word to my manuscript, a plan which, I can now reveal, succeeded beautifully. Instead of typing, which can be confused with writing, I cleared the nearest whiteboard and drew my last act. All of my major characters are involved, and all the plotlines get very close without touching. There are some things the reader needs to learn. Not all of them are true. There are also many things the reader shouldn’t learn, and I have to be very careful not to let someone blurt them out in an unguarded moment. This is harder than it sounds because, although it is precisely the kind of naff authorly pronouncement I exist to exorcise, fictional characters do not always do what the author intends. Generally, they do something much more interesting. […]

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