Behold, the tower of my ideas!
It could be said that I have a bit of a notebook problem. There are 25 here, and that’s not the full set. Contents range from nothing to full and everything in between, including random scribbles on random pages (seriously, what possessed me to start writing six pages in?).
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Due to the nice weather we’ve been having, a lot of people have been posting pictures of icy drinks for this week’s photo prompt. I considered adding a gin and tonic to the list, but opted to go with something a bit more representative of life at the moment (more’s the pity..). Y’see reader, the first thing I am faced with of a morning is this: a fresh page in my notebook, waiting to be filled with more of the rewrite of book 7 I’ve been ploughing through.
This is the sort of rewrite that has changed almost everything – focus, plot, gender of the main protagonist… you name it, I’ve changed it. In a lot of ways it’s been like starting from scratch – afresh, if you want to labour the point a little more. Still, I’m optimistic the story will come out of the process fitter, happier and more productive. And if not, guess I’ll crack into the gin.
According to the folks over at The Daily Post, Golden Hour is the first hour of sunlight of the day and the last one before sunset. I checked when these occur in Edinburgh at the moment, and it was a choice between being up at 5am or going out around 9pm. No prizes for guessing which one I chose…
Haven’t done this for a while, but this week’s photo challenge is curves, which was simple to put a bookish twist on!
The book in question is Hell’s Bells by John Connolly, a sequel to his YA debute The Gates. Both are very funny and worth a look – and if you enjoy them you’ll be pleased to hear the last in the trilogy, The Creeps, is due to be published in the autumn.
Disclaimer: I’ve never read Mr Connolly’s grown up thriller type books (although I have read The Book of Lost Things, which was fun) so you can’t hold me responsible if you love Charlie Parker and don’t like these!
The weekly photo challenge is ‘colour’, and as you can see I chose blue. Initially I was going to write lots of different pages of a story I am working on longhand in different colours and make a gallery of those – but I appear to have misplaced most of my more interesting pen colours. SEND PENS NOW. Or, look at the blue things instead whilst I think of further ridiculous ways to procrastinate.
In other news, The Life and Times of a Working Barbarian is now live – why not go forth and vote on who you want the hero to be?
The title of the post may have alerted you to the fact that this week’s photo challenge involves taking your phone and going out to take pictures of your neighbourhood. The camera on my phone is a little bit rickety, and can only really cope with daylight (bright daylight at that) – so thank goodness it snowed this week. It could have been a very grey-green old time without nature’s lightbox to help me out.
For an extra challenge I was told to tell you a mini story with my pictures, so without much further ado I give you the story of… me walking around a park in the snow. I wanted to get a book in somewhere, possibly alongside a cheesy comment along the lines of ‘my favourite place in my local area is inside a story’ – but alas! I only had a borrowed paperback on me when I went out, and I didn’t want it to get soggy. So I didn’t.
P.S. When I say this is my ‘local neighbourhood’, what I mean is I actually live in the park. I have a secret hole in the ground, sort of like the Psammead. Do say hello if you’re passing – although like the Psammead I may respond with insults if I haven’t had my coffee yet.
12 Books in 12 Months 