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I remember years ago at school we had asbestos mats for chemistry.....it was great fun at the time to wind the teacher up by breaking them up and flinging the bits around the class! Didn't taste very nice either. To answer your original question it's like rock hard cotton strands, like you've...

I'd be careful with a crush injury as you get toxic shock which can be fatal, and also more likely to kill an unborn child. In amputation shock generally sets in quickly and can reduce arterial bleeding for a few minutes, it's only when shock wears off that people bleed to death because of that...

The jacuzzi weren't up to much! I agree that the grammar checker is annoying, but I leave it on because sometimes, just sometimes, it's right. Other times it makes you think, and there have been a few times that I've re-worded because of it, and the writing ends up a little better. The thing...

I'm presuming you've started, so you have already defined a character and their situation. As with any book the beginning defines the course and as you go along it becomes apparent what is going to happen in the end...because you're telling a story. I just let my characters and their...

Cheers Bowler, first bit of positive feedback I've had about my writing...excepting of course me mum, wife, dog, goldfish etc etc!

Exactly. Each of us to our own. I'll put it another way. You're sitting at home watching telly when another Simon Cowell banality comes on. You look in yer pocket and find a tenner, so you decide to go down the pub. A couple of hours later and you're mates with half the locals and the barmaid...

It's weird Bowler, but I think of a character and then a situation and then let them off the leash, there may well be a structure to it subconsciously, but I just let it run. but I have the advantage of being unpublished, so I don't have anyone screaming into my ear about what the books going to...

After a bit the direction seems to take care of itself, the end sort of morphs into view out of the ramblings and thoughts of the characters, but to keep a fixed end in sight doesn't allow, (for me anyway) development. I like to have the opportunity to go of on a really sharp tangent.

It's interesting that every one takes a different tack. I think of the first line and work a page, and then if it works I just extend it, thinking of characters and rough plots as I go. I feel that if I don't know what's going to happen, then neither will anyone who reads it. So no plan, just...

For most of us who are unpublished we have the luxury of time. Keep a notebook and pen, even when at work, and scribble thoughts under the desk. Don't beat yourself up when you haven't done the word count you set, even a doing just one line a day, or a week, will move the project forward...