After the weekly shop, I spent the morning alternately fighting and avoiding my laptop. It went from bad to worse. About 3.45pm I had an inspiration. If the keyboard is part of the problem, bypass the keyboard. I had seen someone in the library using a laptop with a stand-alone keyboard. Get another keyboard. Argos. £10. Logitech K120. It works.
The day had already been redeemed by the broadcast of the first episode of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere on BBC Radio 4. You can catch it on iPlayer Radio for the next week. And to make a disastrous day glorious, Wales beat England in the rugby to win the RBS 6 Nations Championship.
But no writing done today on what looked like a writing day, from a distance.
Broderick, the protagonist of this novel, is, by the end of Chapter Two, engaged in the investigation that will carry him through Part One. In Chapter Three something dreadful happens that throws everything out of gear.
Tomorrow is probably not going to be a writing day but let's hope I get a chance to work on Chapter Three before the end of the day. Even if only a little bit, laptop permitting.
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