A novel published online in daily instalments at robznov.co.uk and on twitter @robznov.

Read today’s instalment of Candyfloss and Pickles here or click on a chapter in the menu on the right.

I add a line every day here and on twitter, and the intention is to publish the entire novel when completed.

The initial idea came to me one day in a flash and I started working out the storyline and characters immediately. Writing a novel requires patience, commitment, self-discipline and persistence and twitter offers a framework for writing and publishing with which I am experimenting. I get quite busy with my business writing and acting in my spare time, so finding time to write is always difficult.

Does this approach work? Well, sometimes. I have kept it going for a while, but illness intervened this year. However, I aim to keep going. One thing I have found is that the ‘instant writing’ approach sometimes making planning the storylines difficult as I have to commit myself once I’ve taken a certain path. There’s no room for revision.

But what is it about – Ilfracombe? Yes and no: only in as much as Ilfracombe is an English town and it is a novel about an English town. Both the town in the novel and Ilfracombe are by the sea and the sea has a strong influence on both, but it’s really a fictional town I write about. That’s not to say that the writing does not reflect a lot of what is happening in English towns and culture.