Putting the brush down

'Between Wind and Water' is finished - at least for the time being and for a certain value of 'finished'. I've edited it down to 100k which feels about right. Big thanks to brownnicky for a swift kick up the edit and making me see some of the bloat that needed removing. And to everyone else who contributed critiques at earlier stages.

I'm going to take the last 9.1K or so - the final action set pieces - as one of my submissions to Milford this year (starts on 17th September), but apart from that it's ready for Agent Beth.

Now all I have to do is decide on my second sub for Milford - I have a couple of different pieces I can take. i doubt if I'll be able to write a new short in time, which is what I'd been hoping to do. I've got 5.9k words to play with.

Though I do have another children's book idea I'm keen to make a start on.

Putting the brush down

'Between Wind and Water' is finished - at least for the time being and for a certain value of 'finished'. I've edited it down to 100k which feels about right. Big thanks to brownnicky for a swift kick up the edit and making me see some of the bloat that needed removing. And to everyone else who contributed critiques at earlier stages.

I'm going to take the last 9.1K or so - the final action set pieces - as one of my submissions to Milford this year (starts on 17th September), but apart from that it's ready for Agent Beth.

Now all I have to do is decide on my second sub for Milford - I have a couple of different pieces I can take. i doubt if I'll be able to write a new short in time, which is what I'd been hoping to do. I've got 5.9k words to play with.

Though I do have another children's book idea I'm keen to make a start on.

It was a dark and stormy night

I was up writing until around 4.00 a.m., but when I did try and go to bed I just lay there for (seemed like hours), listening to the wind howling off the moor. During that time I counted seven separate clunks of things being blown about outside that shouldn't ought to be.

BB retrieved the garden furniture this morning. Nothing broken that we can see but sometimes you don't find out the worst until the water starts seeping through a bedroom ceiling or oozing out of the wall below the valley gutter. We only just finished decorating the smallest bedroom after having the ceiling replastered due to a persistent water encroachment.

It was a dark and stormy night

I was up writing until around 4.00 a.m., but when I did try and go to bed I just lay there for (seemed like hours), listening to the wind howling off the moor. During that time I counted seven separate clunks of things being blown about outside that shouldn't ought to be.

BB retrieved the garden furniture this morning. Nothing broken that we can see but sometimes you don't find out the worst until the water starts seeping through a bedroom ceiling or oozing out of the wall below the valley gutter. We only just finished decorating the smallest bedroom after having the ceiling replastered due to a persistent water encroachment.