Desert of Zin

I haven’t written anything in ages.  Absolutely ages.  Which is a shame ‘cos I was really getting into it.  Then, as always happens, real life comes hurtling into view.

Whenever I have time (and haven’t I already said I have free evenings next week?) I should knuckle down and dedicate this precious time to the stack of unfinished work which continues to grow.

In saying that, while looking through the archive, I found the first story I attempted for the story-a-day project way back.  It had the working title of ‘Thor’.  It’s only a few hundred words, no more than two scenes, but it was fun to write and given a spruce up it might be worth throwing up on the site.

I’ve been thinking of doing something similar with a few of the shorter standalone pieces.  (but it won’t become another ‘Railman’ or ‘The Bandstand’.  These are on the to-do list to be finished, hopefully, at some point before I shuffle from this mortal coil.)

But as with so many things, we’ll see.

- Alistair

I’ve been working on part three of The Bandstand for over a week and a half now and it’s odd, at least it is to me, that the bulk of the story is progressing in a different way to how I initially imagined it.

I think it’s partly because I have no strict plan for the story and it’s direction.  I have the vaguest idea what one of the end scenes might be but beyond that it’s anyone’s guess how I get there.

And that’s a good thing, i think.

I have to say that I’m enjoying the third part much more then the second.  Perhaps I was putting myself under too much presure to finish the second while I’m suitably relaxed about the third.

Meh, who knows.

Hopefully this is going to be more exciting than the second part, or at least hinting at more exciting things to come.  And with ideas for parts four and five, I’d better crack on.

It’d be a shame to lose steam now.

- Alistair

Right!

I’ve finally finished the final version of the long awaited (heh, yeah) part two of The Bandstand!

You can find it over at Cold Head Press.

- Alistair

Part two of The Bandstand is getting there.

Just so you know I’m not spending ALL my time watching Battlestar Galactica…

- Alistair

…Voices return!

Yesterday concerned about the struggle, didn’t get to see The Edgemeister last night, spent some quiet time while Ruthy was out at her art class and had the sudden and exciting idea of what happens next in The Bandstand.

I love it when that happens.

However, the bummer is that I’m at work and itching to get the writing underway.  Gah!

We’ll be having dinner with mrBen and mrsHevs so I’ll have to decide whether to pull a late night or get up super early.  Ah, the agony of choice.

(Of course, it doesn’t matter if I pull a late night or not, there’s no chance of me getting up reasonably early on a Saturday…)

- Alistair