Today I am all sorts of pleased to welcome Mark A King to the Dust Lounge. The author of brilliant debut novel Metropolitan Dreams, and general all around top dude, we chatted about all things bookish, inspiration and cheese.
So without further ado, let’s get down to the good stuff.
Happy Valentine’s Day and all the joys it may or may not bring. Today is mostly a day of vomit inducing romantified couples paying for overpriced meals and polluting my social media feeds with over-eager double-selfies and #blessed hashtags.
So November happened, and for the first time I decided to get on the crazy word train that is Nanowrimo, National Novel Writing Month. And I only went and bloody did it. I mean, I hit the 50k target for the month – I can’t really say it’s a novel, it still needing around 20/30k words to finish it off. But anyway – HUZZAH – release the party poppers, the champagne corks and the dogs with novelty party hats. But it was hard. Harder, even, than I’d expected. And as I hit the last week around 5k behind, I wasn’t…
