Hi all you Orbiteers and supporters out there in blogland, today is our one month anniversary and I’m wondering, how’s the writing going???
Aside from moving house I’m busily reading all the books I’m supposed to be and craftily avoiding actually doing any writing (mwahahahahah, my cunning plan is working…)
I can’t believe this time last month I was savouring good wine, good food and great company and just at the beginning of a marvellous experience. It’s the classic time travel experience – time is a human construct so in my existential universe it’s really only a couple of days ago. I’ve just finished reading Brasyl (what a mind trip!) and while I have always loved the concept of the multiverse, I figure I’m too much of a solipsist to really, truly believe in a universe I didn’t create. Isn’t that a fundamental part of the human experience? Or is that just me?
Anywho my loves, miss you all and wishing you all brilliant writing and inspiration and time and energy and good badminton.
xxx Janette
Here goes. First ever comment on a blog.
Hi!
Website looks great!
And my QWC magazine arrived. V spiffy cover!
Happy Monthaversary right back at ya!
Speaking as a drunk (it’s my birthday today and I’ve been sampling the Granite Belt’s finest – which includes great cider and very smooth grappa, I might say) it is my birthday today and I am a reversed fragment of the Fibonacci series (famous because of The Davinci Code, I’m greatly saddemed to say – now, wasn’t that a truly awful novel?) years old.
It’s quite incredible that a month has passed since we were all together. I’ve only written one short story, a bit of a new novel and lots of revisions to an old novel since then. Tempus is fugiting like a lizard drinking!
I’m workng on a new short story now. I tend to write them long (between 10K and 15K words) but most mags (even the e-zines)want them under 5K words. So I’ve decided I’d better do a set of short short stories or I’ll never get published. Trouble is, how do you explore an idea in less than ten thousand words? And, if you’re not exploring an idea, what’s the point of writing anything? (Cripes, that’s why I’m an SF writer in the first place.) Still, The Market is God and if I’m going to be a Priest in this outfit, I’d better learn my catechism.
How did I get onto this? Oh yes, best wishes to you all from the Birthday Boy and may we all achieve our elevation to the Priesthood (yes, even the women, poor inferior vessels that you are).
Graham.
I confess i don’t write short stories, because i’m a) not really interested in getting all worked up about something that’s over in a few thousand words, and b) very very lazy.
A long short story & part of a novel doesn’t sound like a bad month’s work to me. But see b) above.
Happy Birthday!
Wow, now i’ve got this blogging thing down i just can’t stop.
Hey Graham, if you struggle with expressing an idea in short form why not set a real challenge to break out of your usual mould? Try a 50 word or 100 word flash fiction, it will really switch on a different part of your brain. And if you REALLY want a challenge, try a couple of haiku…