Candyfloss and Pickles novel

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

Read today’s instalment of Candyfloss and Pickles now.

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

Read chapters one, two, three and four so far.

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. Will this approach work? It has done for almost eight months, although progress is slow. I hope to speed up in 2009.

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.