Desert of Zin

I’ve been looking through my archives for inspiration.  Looking for a story that jumps out, crying ‘look at me!’  And Spires At Midnight responded.

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Less than a month to go until NaNoWriMo and I’m getting that familiar itch.  (no, not THAT familiar itch…)

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So, despite my lack of sleep I had a relatively good day of writing today.  It was Towers Over The Clyde, the sequel to Living On Reputation.

It was good to get back into it (it always is) and a rough first chapter has finally been finished!

I have some really crazy ideas for the rest of the story, I’m really letting my imagination run riot with this one.

- Alistair

I had a deadline for Duality 2, a book produced locally, that was today.  The story I was working on didn’t quite work and while I had a good beginning and ending, the middle just didn’t work out.  So no submissions for Duality 2 for this boy.  I’ll wait until Duality 3 and see if I have anything in mind that would work.

Now that’s out of the way I’ve been thinking of working on something a bit longer.  Recently my story lengths have been getting shorter and shorter and after a comment by mrBen I thought that something with a bit more story to tell was on the cards.

So now I’m working on a sequel of sorts to Living on Reputation, something that was submitted recently for Mythaxis.  And, hopefully, it should be a bit more weighty than I’ve been producing.  It has the working title of Towers Over The Clyde.

To give you a hint, think of Glasgow cop-show Taggart but with wizards and a hint of H.P. Lovecraft.  Lovely.

- Alistair

Living On Reputation is a wee story of mine that’s been published by Mythaxis Magazine.

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