Laura Kidd

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No studio for me today, which feels weird after such long hours spent there in the last few weeks...

Sounds become numbers. Songs in a list. 12 days done, 3 to go. 8 songs recorded and mixed, 2 more to record music for, 4 more to sing on. 1 set of lyrics to complete…eek. ...

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Happy birthday Mister Benji! Two years old yesterday. We celebrated with an accidentally long walk through horrible rain followed by cake and cosy movies (note – I did not feed cake to my dog, I ate it!). ...

I did it!!!!!! Never did find out who Bruce Fish was, but that’ll come in the second draft, I’m sure. For now – woooooooooooooo!!! Thanks to everyone for being so supportive, especially @solobassteve, MasonicBoom and @eph_brinkley. Here’s to next November!

It’s nearly over, and by jove I think I might actually ‘win’ NaNoWriMo this year. After a surprisingly productive couple of writing sessions today my wordcount stands at 40,591 with three days to go. It hasn’t been easy. A few...

It’s NaNoWriMo day 22 and my word count is a respectable 26,589. I’m behind the ideal word count by some margin but I like my story and I am stubborn. T...

I’m all about the challenges these days, what with the recent half marathon and now NaNoWriMo, so when I saw one of my favourite blogs, (ex-Sleater-Kinney guitarist/vocalist) Carrie Brownstein’s Monitor Mix, was encouraging everyone to celebrate home recording this weekend by writing and dem...

Lagging behind at 12,741 words. Hmph. Pregnant friend safely out of hospital and boyfriend safely off on tour though, so I should be able to focus more over the weekend and hopefully catch up. Tonight’s writing was nothing special but it’s good to get in to it again. I ...

In the ultimate display of public procrastination I have posted all eleven chapters of my NaNovel on my shiny new Posterous blog...