New readers: start here. If you’ve been following the novel diary, feel free to skip ahead beyond the italics for day four.

I’ve always fancied chronicling the writing of a novel in a ‘diary of a novel’ format and sharing it, but it’s always one of those things that I’ve never quite got round to.

However, inspired by a recent series offantastic postsby Dean Wesley Smith, I’ve decided to actually go and do it.

The project is a 30,000 word novella I started a while back but put on hold due to othe...