First, let me direct your attention to the first contest of 2012 here. Easy to enter, easy to win.
I'm closing in on the 10,000 word mark on Project: Holden, which is pretty good for three days work, I think. Hopefully I'll be able to talk about it in some more detail in the near future, but I will say it's great fun to write characters who are (a) thoroughly reprehensible and (b) able to uproot a tree. Really frees up the imagination.
I was a bit apprehensive about taking this set of characters on, being relatively unfamiliar with them, but they're starting to grow on me. And given the brief I'm working with, I can paint them with the big, broad strokes they deserve as well. The characters are quite literally larger than life and that's making for some entertaining action sequences. Snapped spines and splintered bones abound.
In what I hope will be a regular occurrence for the year, I don't actually have any other projects which require my attention at the moment. It's nice to be busy, but I could get used to this 3000-words-a-day-and-done thing. I can catch up on my reading, for one thing. I mean, John Julius Norwich's The Normans in Sicily isn't going to read itself, now is it?
Is it?
Anyway, I leave you to rock out to the gentle sea-rhythms of this guitar shaped like Cthulhu.
4 comments:
That's an awesome guitar. I think I might need one or two of those...
If I get one and you get one, we could form a jam-band.
I vote 'Autumn Comes the Cephalopods' for the band name!
Imagine if you could stick to 3,000 words a day for the year. I'd calculate how many words that is but it's before 8 a.m.
I'd calculate how many words that is but I'm bad at maths and lazy. But if I could stick to it...that'd be sweeeeet...
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