A Stunning Return!

So, after a less-than-productive week last week, I seem to have come back shining this week. My energy's renewed, my enthusiasm's returned and I'm throwing out words like something that throws out lots of words (similes are not my forte).

I'm averaging about 3000 words a day so far, which is fantastic. I'm hoping to do 9200 words this week and it's very likely I'll hit my target. It's an ambitious one, no doubt, but I'm quietly confident this week. It's just a matter of getting on with it.

Other than that, there's not really very much to report.

I would just like to add a side-note. The immensely talented Jeff Jones has had some short stories accepted into a new anthology which has been released. It's worth buying just for his stories, I assure you, and you can find it here:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/thirteen-press/alien/paperback/product-21491658.html

A Slight Stumble

Okay, so this has not been my most productive writing week in my life as an author. By virtue of my feeling pretty awful this week, I've written about one thousand words, which, in all honesty, is pretty terrible by all accounts. Still, every writer has the odd stumbling block.

Still, I'm an optimist, so, what this has given me the time to do is recharge a little. It hasn't been a complete waste of time because I've formed ideas in my head, thought about where the story for Lay Me Restless is going, and it's given me a chance to inspire myself; to take a look at books, films and video games I might not have without this little set back. So, in all, it hasn't been the fatal stumble I first thought.

Hopefully I'll be back to full productivity next week!

The Man of Many Projects!

So, book three 'Lay Me Restless' is progressing steadily. I'd argue that you can never write a book quite as quickly as you would like to, but every time I sit down to write at the moment I make progress and it's always between 2000 and 3000 words, so I have nothing to complain about in that respect.

What is very exciting for me though, as a side project I suppose, is that I've finally managed to edit the musical a friend put in my hands a few months ago. I added a few bits of dialogue, pitched a few jokes (which, if he has even a modicum of a sense of humour will dismiss immediately) and rounded off the characters, just gave them a little more life and added a dimension or two to them. Anyway, they were absolutely thrilled with the result. Apparently, and this is the most exciting part of all, they have a producer who's interested in reading the script. Any author will tell you that it's not the easiest thing in the world to get an agent / publisher etc to read your manuscript, so being able to get a theatre and film producer to read the script immediately is pretty good going on the part of my friend. It's an exciting prospect and it'll be interesting to see what happens.

But, enough from me. It's pancake day and batter doesn't make itself!