...it's good to be back, good to be back.
Well, actually it's not because I've been away for a few days and had a great time - and it's probably not such a great idea to go around quoting Gary Glitter either.
We flipped down to Devon for a few days to recharge and I've come back more knackered than I was before I left. The surf was good though - it always is down there. I have to get myself a new board - this one is hammered and now has bad karma attached to it. I got dumped off, smacked myself in the side of the mouth with the tip, cracked my back tooth that started at jujitsu and have been in agony ever since... this dental lark is not cheap anymore. Not sure how many pills I can take now but I think I've probably totally overdone it.
Still, I left the ibook at home and was offline the whole time which is a good thing to do once every six weeks or so. It forces you to think differently and pull everything into line. How you're delivering your materials, the point of them etc... there's nothing like a good cull to get things in perspective either. So it is with sadness but much lighter shoulders that I'm kissing goodbye to the Blood and Honey project as that's now been sunk into the much bigger Burn project - but that means I have a free domain name hanging around. Maybe I'll think of something constructive to do with it... maybe I'll donate it to somebody that needs some space for a little while.
Anyway, this has left me very focussed. Now I only have Burn, Dark Hollow and my writing to think about which is much easier to handle so time for an update - possibly as much for my benefit as anybody else. All Burn news can be found over at burnonline so I won't touch on that here, while the dark hollow site has also had some work done to it.. not sure if I like it though. We'll see. So, tales from the Zodiac Lung:
Too Hot For Dogs: Charlotte has been busy. This last week, we've developed some of the peripherals, things like backgrounds and incidental pieces - those items that you never think much about but if they weren't there would leave massive holes in the book. I'm still really excited about this... time to get that agent soon and start making some approaches to get 2H4D out into the big wide world.
One Hit Is All It Takes: has been sitting on the sidelines for a couple of weeks. I didn't think it would be hard to write about yourself but it is... the closer you get to the present, the less important things appear to be which means there must actually be a time restriction on what is classed as nostalgia! I wonder if it's related to quantum physics... and at what time does nostalgia become history anyway? It's stupid trains of thought like this that stop a man from just getting the work done!
Dreamers: Still kind of secret at the moment as to what it's about but it sure is fun to write! This puppy is coming along just fine - nearly at the end of the first draft already. Who knows, maybe this one will be the first out of the door. Hunter meanwhile, I might kill stone dead. It was a good idea but it ran out of steam very quickly so I think taking it's bare boned carcass and adapting it for a set piece in Carnival of Souls may be the kindest thing to do. Carnival itself is moving along again - I seem to have had a new lease of life with it - probably due to the Hunter train of thought. I really do need do need one of those Waking the Dead pane of glass notebooks you know...
Finally, Turn the Lamp Down Low is on holiday for a month. I've decided to walk away from the working of the plot and look at the characters for a few days. Some of them are weak - or maybe jsut made weak by having strong leads - either way, it needs a doctor before it moves on any further. there's no way it's going to be left to die though. Yeah.. I think it really is that good!
That's me then apart from the work I need to release Shocking the Monkey... yeah, you thought I'd forgotten. Not forgotten... just being a fussy son of a gun over the design and delivery. These things are important if you want to be sitting on Kiss Alive and not a ropey aold bootleg!
