So I've re-read a couple of novels from last year, seeing how they work. Read The Ask, Fiesta, The Road, alongside The Turn of the Screw, now working my way through Bleak House, hopefully moving on to the Tomalin biography afterwards, and Scott Fitzgerald's stories. Quite fancy a bit of Peter Ackroyd at some point. I re-wrote a short story about the Pamplona, well in the genre fiction zone, now working on a couple of other pieces of writing. I prepared, and then unprepared, an application for the Columbia MFA, with the feeling that I need to get better.

Trying to work along the lines of this Gary Lutz piece in The Believer on prose style. A feat in itself.

Work-wise, have had commissions from The Guardian, Esquire UK, and am helping The New York Times journalist Graham Bowley research a book. I've been commissioned to write a catalogue for Rivington Street's RED gallery, and am likely to be doing quite a lot of freelance PR for various clients. Am excited about focusing on fiction, and MYMZK (see above).