Finding it real hard to concentrate this week. Might be something to do with the last episodes of Doctor Who coming up and that far too many people keep sending me this picture and making it worse.

It's very childish of me I know, but it's good to be excited about something outside of this round room of a mind. Ian mailed me today and said he couldn't find any info on what exactly Shocking the Monkey was about. That would be because I never said, but being as he brought it up, I'll elaborate.

It's basically an archive of poems, really short stories and meandering scraps of writing that have been lurking on my hard drive for far too long that I think deserve to be out there. Trust me. The bad stuff is lining the trash can.

At least that's how I thought things were going. Turns out that last night I began writing a short story called The Creeper. Jesus. I must have started it in my sleep because I've written a fair amount of it. Must retain focus though! That's way to many projects on the go, but I don't think you can ever have enough short stories in your arsenal. Too Hot is on ice this week while I finish up with Burn, but that's OK. It's good to have some time away from it to get a birds-eye. Charlie is beavering away at some more art. Apparently, she's been picking up Imagine FX for a while now and it comes with cool brushes on the disc. I didn't know that. I buy it occasionally just to check out what's going on in the world. If you have any interest whatsoever in digital art in all it's forms, it's normally worth picking up, though at seven quid a shot you'd best have a bloody good look at it in the store first!

I'm going to have to take some time off work soon to get my shit together. Still, it's cool to be finally finishing some things off. By Christmas, I should be sitting on a stockpile of many different writings to start farming out to the world - which is basically between Doctor Who finishing and the Doctor Who Christmas special. Just hoping that I don't get car-jacked into X-Factor this year.