Hiatus

It's been a long time since I posted here - mostly because of the death of Friday Snippets.

But I have been up to some writing-related nonsense, so I suppose it's a good idea to set some of it down:

• An agent is interested in C&C, but I need to rework large chunks of it. This is on my To Do list, but has been overtaken by a handful of other things.


• Rachel and I decided to bite the bullet and just 'publish-and-be-damned' a children's book to coincide with the birth of our friends' first child. It is available via Lulu and has now mysteriously found its way onto the American Amazon store. It is a parody, it's about language, it's full of picture-based double entendres, and will therefore probably only work properly for the British. (Also - I've been told off for only giving us 4 stars. I never was any good at self-promotion!)


• I've produced a film script in collaboration with a friend. It's far better than my earlier attempts at scriptwriting, and we're both rather proud of it (certainly of the underlying ideas and the characters, although my script formalism may be lacking in places).


• I am currently turning said film script into a graphic novel script for an artist friend of mine. Where it'll finally end up, who knows?


• I am currently in collaboration with another artist on a second children's book, also a parody, but this one much darker.


• Rachel and I are working up ideas for a second TV series. The first one is, sadly, on the shelf, due to the BBC producing a very similar series. *sigh* Isn't it always the way that similar ideas all blossom at once?


• Gasoline is currently sitting on a shelf niggling at me.


• I was asked to do a reading for a wedding. Unfortunately the friends in question couldn't think of a suitable passage. So I had to do a writing as well as a reading; standing up there reading your own words for the first time is nerve-racking! Still, it seemed to go down well, and I was quite pleased with it.

All this and running a technology company, too!

Ooh!

An email from an agent who is interested in being sent the full draft of C&C!

:-D

And another rejection!

They're coming thick and fast now. :-D

Freshly Fuelled

Having had a long discussion in a car with Rach, I've finally nailed down some stuff about Gasoline that was bugging me. Put a lot more structure in place.

So, believe it or not, I'm now starting the second draft before the first is finished. :-)

Mostly because the first draft kinda lost its way, and a lot of the new structure really affects the half-way point of the story (which is where I was).

Second Rejection

...which was something of a nice surprise, because I had assumed the agent wouldn't bother to reply at all - it being nearly four months since I sent the manuscript.

Again, not a bad rejection, although I suspect it's a form note.

Death of Snippets

Well - it's been an interesting year-and-a-half.

But I've decided - finally - to abandon snippeting.

Partly because of the reasons in the last post - I don't have any more to say in the current story without drastic spoilers, which I think would be a shame.

And partly because I've decided to pull all the old snippets from this blog because it is rather too public. After taking a bit of advice from experienced authors, I think it's the right thing to do.

Which is a shame.

This blog will, therefore, only be updated sporadically for the time being, I guess, as writing-related things happen in my life. It may become no more than a personal record. Who knows?

Good luck with whatever you're working on! I'll try to keep reading other people's entries from week to week, assuming anyone else keeps going!

Accomplished

3 more submissions of Coin and Candle sent off, despite a small kitten sitting on the back of my neck.

Slight rewrite of the last few scenes of Gasoline to accommodate something which connects up all the plot of the story so far; a sudden inspiration which I'm really happy with.

All in all, not a bad day so far.