Yule tide is nearly upon us again and the decorations are up in the shops. What does the fairy on the tree mean? I might not have finished a novel but I have finally completed this little story that has a look at the question. Have a Happy Advent and Merry Christmas folks.
Archive for November, 2005
This has to be the most shocking story I have ever read. The scale of what it represents, in our new and exciting Media-driven techno-phile society is what I have found frightening. The lack of attention in a lot of the media is also worrying, compared to the ultra-hype coverage of other large virus outbreaks in the past.
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We are over the half-way point in days but I am now a mere 6599 words short of where I should be in terms of word count target! 20073 down. 29927 to go…
After a grueling couple of days hard at it, I feel like I am very much back on target with the novel. I’ve decided to change the working title to Bright Endeavour after the ship a good deal of the action is going to be set on. I am also celebrating the fact that I not only managed to get the characters onto the aforementioned ship but got them to launch from the Space Station and make the jump to Saturn!
Here is a great big juicy excerpt from the most recent work…
The novel has finally made it past the 10k milestone. Admittedly I should have been at this stage on Sunday and am still about 5k words behind where I should be, but the creative juices seem to be flowing and I finally seem to be getting towards the point where I can let the characters get on with things.
In this writing session I managed to kill a character and have another explosion. Explosions, as any role players out there will know, are one of my literary specialities – I didn’t really go to town on this one but I’m sure I can spruce it up when we get to redraft time.
10 218 words down, 39 782 to go.
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Well there have been several days of novel virtual innactivity due to a horrendously full calendar and a birthday party for my Gran’s eightieth birthday, which was great fun. Luckily today we’ve had our first Glasgow Write-in and I’ve leapt forward by 3000 words which brings me up to the point I should have been at on about Wednesday! 4297 words down, 45,703 to go!
Another excerpt from today’s work…
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