Once you get something moving, it's probably best to use that force of nature to see them through to the end - in this case, momentum.

With Mr Downes on board with The Ballad of the Goat Faced Boy, it's beginning to come together a lot faster than I had planned. That's a good start to a new year.

As also promised (making two promises kept in a row) part 2 of the Dan Brown sequence is ready to roll this evening. Lovingly hand-written, it will take me an hour or so to type up and, well, let's see.

I thought it would be cool to start the new year off by unarchiving all of the material I'd written for Burn and Zero and making them available over at Rocks Back Pages which I have a soft spot for. This however is not to be, due to "having so many other writers vying for a space". I have interpreted this as "No - we don't want your stuff".

Now and again, I think that my writing may be genuinely shit, most times I think that they just don't get it because it doesn't conform to the soul-less way everybody else writes. Sack somebody who works for a major magazine and see the outcome. With very few exceptions, nobody will care. The next guy that comes along will write in just the same 'scholastic' way - which could go some way to explaining the decline of magazines. Sure, advertising is tough and the web is taking its toll but I'm thoroughly convinced that a lot of publications are going to the wall simply because they suck.

Anyway, I guess I should just concentrate on the now rather than the past. That's good advice to myself. If the past was so good, why isn't it still here?

As a useful finale to this post, if you're feeling metaphysical, why not try living backwards in time? I originally found the theory in a copy of Deepak Chopra's The Way of the Wizard but there's a simplified explanation here that will start you off...

That's all... until yesterday begins again tomorrow.