No more fiction?

It's been 5 weeks now since I've read any fiction. I decided as I sat down to reread a David Gemmell novel for the fifth time that I'm in a bit of a reading rut. Not that I don't like Gemmell, he's one of my favourite reads for a quiet afternoon but I'm not getting anything new.
So for 6 months-ish, or until sometime just before Christmas I'm not reading any more fiction. So far my reading list has included 2 autobiographys (Tina Fey and Stephen Fry), 1 gardening manual, a tiny percentage of a web programming manual, a guide to becomeing a freelance writer and 3 or 4 business books, mainly about sales and marketing.
I've also hit the library for some history books which are sitting on my table, a history of British Columbia and another on Napoleon.
Any other suggestions welcome.

It ground to a halt

I was flying away with the novel, writing every day and then I just stopped. I realised I didn't care about my main character. I liked the story, the events, what he was doing but I just didn't give a shit about him.
Didn't like him, didn't hate him, didn't feel any pity or anything.
So I stopped.

Setting some time aside

This is really helping. Working somewhere with no wireless internet and preferably with the phone off and of course a large mug of coffee helps. I found a writing group that meets up just to write. That's it. Write.
You go there, grab a coffee, say hello and then start writing. Say goodbye and leave.
I went on Saturday but the place was crowded and there was little or no chance of getting a seat. So I left and went next door where it was dead.
Just over a thousand words I think.
Today for lunch I took a half hour and hit somewhere between six and eight hundred words. This is really working.
So now ot find a favourite local coffee shop. Must have;
Good coffee

• No wifi available
• Preferably no cell reception
• Very few customers and all of them quiet.
• Oh and comfortable seats with tables the right height for laptops.

Should be easy to find.

Word count : 8,832

Keep it going

It's been a slow week but it still keeps coming. I have a writing group meeting tomorrow so hopefully that will help. This is the part where it gets difficult, I think I really need to push to write at least 6 days out of 7 or I'll lose momentum.

Word count : 6998

More words

The Descent is still coming along, still in that first exciting burst of a story where it has so much promise and seems to be going so easy. Wrote another page or two today.
Word count : 4903

Think that's the end

The Descent as I may have mentioned I am writing in no paticular order. Today I wrote the last chapter or what may be spread out in parts and added to over the last few chapters. In any case what I think are the final words are now down on paper, or on a hard drive somewhere at least.

Word count : 4314, but I hope to get more done later today

The Descent

I've been hit by the bug again and stuck into a new novel. I'm writing it as it comes, all piecemeal, a thousand words of the beginning, a few hundred in the middle a bit at the end and back to the beginning for another five hundred.
Current word count, 3297. I think this one will run longer than my last attempt and if the first draft gets completed somewhere in the region of 120,000 - 150,000 words.
To get there I need to get my daily count up form 500 - 800 to more 1000 - 1500. Wish me luck.