It’s odd.  The Writing Group Homework process.  Most fun I’ve had writing a story in a long, long, long time.  The Stag was another, back at the start of the year.  The first, and only other, of the writing tasks I was set by the group and completed.  That one escaped my recent purge.  I’ll have to post it at some point.  I’ll get around to it in the next day or two… 

I was looking over it again (Stuck In My Clothes, not The Stag) and I can pick out a few flaws, some mistakes that I’ll try and tighten up in the next attempt.  Otherwise it seems to pass judgement.  Don’t be afraid to let me know what you think though.  Criticism is the name of the game after all.  I won’t improve without it.

In saying that, and not to blow my own trumpet (but it’s always good to know you have a trumpet to blow, and that you have an open invitation to the brass section), but as a first draft in under 30 minutes I don’t think it’s too bad.  I may have to dig through old e-mails and get previous homework I haven’t tried yet.

Sometimes it is necessary to put everything aside and start again.  And by “put everything aside” I mean delete the tens of thousands of words worth of dead stories that have been hanging around my neck like a dead weight.

And the notes.  Pages and pages of notes across dozens of notepads, most of them with contradictory information on them.  To the bin with it all.

Quite a severe measure.

I’m feeling pretty good for it though.  As the post title says, it’s good to get a fresh new start.

And the same applies to the blog.  It was pretty vague at the best of times so I decided that it was best to get rid of the existing content and start again…