Because, so far, Osiris Rising is poor.

Dreadful, actually.

It’s incredible how strong the urge is to revise everything that I’ve written so far. But I know I have to resist that, get to the end and get the editing done then.

Also, I know that I have to just knuckle down and get it all out on paper, no matter how bad it looks.  And that statement was almost identical to the previous one.

Bah, time to get away from the computer I think.

While on holiday I decided (and with much encouragement from my wife) to try something new in the writing stakes. After all, it was a holiday and time to unwind and relax. And something new would be good for me, we thought, as I could write something that wasn’t encumbered by previous notes and story attempts.

So I came up with the bare bones of the Osiris Rising story.

It’s a Samuel Mandrake tale, a younger version of the old guy from The Bandstand excerpt I’ve already posted. The story is first person, which took some getting used to. I spent a while finding Sam’s voice and the first few pages don’t seem to match the tone of the rest as a result.

Oh well, that’s what editing is for.

Also, I’m doing this off the computer. Having started it on holiday, far away from daily and convenient computer access, I had to fall back on the old faithful of pen and paper. Good thing about doing it this way is that I don’t get caught in the trap of getting a few thousand words into it and grinding to a halt spending all my time ceaselessly revising it..

It’s about setting an old wrong to right. And about forgiving yourself.

And it may be full of creeping evil. I haven’t got that far, so if when it’s finished and there’s not a great deal of creeping evil to be found, I’m warning you here and now that this all might change.

I really can’t be held responsible for what is said long before the damn thing gets finished.

Things have been quiet in DoZ Central Command for a while and I can only ever apologise for that.

But as I am no longer in full-time employment I find I have the time for more creative endeavours.

Hence, Osiris Rising and The Fractured Land.

More details to follow…