Daynote - Thu 20 Mar

Another absolute beaut of a morning, and the vernal equinox, which means it's officially Spring! I saw a ladybird sunning itself on a branch this morning, which I will take as a positive harbinger.

ON DECK: More editing this morning - lots of fiddly timeline stuff and a few more references to a thing the reader needs to be reminded of. That got me 328 words in aggregate, over the draft. Nice.

LISTENING: I enjoyed this episode of Drafting Notes about balancing writing with the day job. I listened to this, but it's also up on Youtube:

WATCHING: We fancied a break from the PARADISE revelation train last night, so we watched a bit of GLADIATORS instead. Reliably daft. I like the new 'race giant metal hamster balls' event.

READING: More PROJECT SCARLET yesterday on the train to and from Edinburgh yesterday. I'm still in the chapters that have already had one edit pass, but rapidly approaching the stuff that is raw first draft. Trying not to be nervous about that.

LINK: Reminder that it's one week until m'friend and colleague Nick Binge launches his next book, DISSOLUTION, at the Leith Arches. It promises to be quite the event, hosted by Argonaut Books, with all proceeds going to Alzheimer's Scotland. I have it on good authority tickets are nearly sold out, so if you've been procrastinating on getting yours, now is the time.

UP NEXT: One more day fiddling with PROJECT SHARD, which I'm hoping should be enough to get it squared away. Then next week I start taking the notes I've accumulated on the Supernote and get cracking on PROJECT SCARLET again.

I'm oddly nervous about it, but I've been glad to have a week break from working on it directly (though I've been reading the draft this whole time). It was nice to return to outer space for a bit to work on SHARD. But now I'm coming back to Earth, hopefully not with a bump.

Onward!