Daynote - Tue 01 Oct
Well, isn't this a fancy new website? As noted in a brief post yesterday, I'm in the process of migrating a bunch of stuff to a new platform called Ghost, so there's going to be broken links and such all over the place for a little while. I'm also going to use a slightly shorter date format for the Daynote titles, which you can see above.
This should hopefully make everything a lot faster and smoother for me to manage on the back-end, as well as making stuff like preview images work properly on social media. And it'll make putting together newsletters so much easier.
ON DECK: Another scene down on the PROJECT SCARLET sample today with 853 words and I'm very nearly at 18k total. It's not going to stay that length in edits. I wouldn't be surprised if my first draft is 21-23k or thereabouts and what I submit is more like 19-20k. That's about my usual cut on a sample of this length. We'll see. But it's going well.
LISTENING: I was listening to a lot of Stan Getz this morning, starting with 'Misty'.
Love a bit of jazzy sax. For many people it's late night music, but I find it works for six in the morning just as well.
WATCHING: Watched a couple of episodes of THE STAND last night (the 2020 version, not the film or the 1994 mini-series). It's pretty decent? Although the scope of the apocalypse is somewhat muted relative to the wide-screen vision of the book.
READING: Still no reading. Website migration and newsletter is keeping me too busy. But tonight I'll get to bed early enough to get some reading done.
UP NEXT: I've got a school visit tomorrow in the Borders, talking to a small class of students about my writing process and doing some writing exercises with them. I'm really looking forward to it.
After that I'll be writing as fast as I can through to the end of the week, hoping to get my sample finished. I've also got a dinner planned with Nick Binge on Thursday to talk about an Exciting Potential Project, as well as Sam K Horton's event with Hannah Kaner the same evening for his book GORSE. Really looking forward to that one.