Update!
It's been nearly two months since I last updated. The lack of classes over the summer combined with a general winding down has resulted in less writing and more reading and even more thinking about writing. In short I've been relaxing and making notes. I keep promising that I'm going to write more and be more disciplined but it's just words... I mean it's empty promises to myself. The mood to write comes and goes. I've have been writing, but I'd be lieing if I said I was writing every day.
So... Current Projects... I've got two large projects in mind at the moment. I've found that a lot of the short pieces and exerts that appeared in my writing practice lately can be slotted into one of the two worlds. What they're lacking at the moment are overall plots but ideas continue to emerge and they're taking me in some interesting directions. I don't want to talk too much about them yet as they're likely to change as they mature but I'm finding that one of the most interesting things is trying to work out how the world in which I set one story can evolve from England as it stands now. I've been talking to knowledgable friends and I'm hoping to have a recent history timeline done by the end of this weekend.
It's only two months till I'm due to start classes again and I'm damned well going to have something significant written by then!
Rat’s Tail
That's the working title of the project I've set myself. I've got a world history. I've got a piece in the anthology that sets up a shit ton of questions. I've got another piece of back story. I've got the beginnings of an interview with a character who probably won't even be in the story much.
I don't have much in the way of characters. I don't have an overarching plot. I've only got a vague family tree.
But I do have priorities!