Cate Gardner's Blog, page 57
June 12, 2010
Smokin' Saturday
Holy Smoke... Well not exactly holy, unless you go with popular opinion that my street is the Gateway to Hell. There I was, shining my writing medal due to completing the first draft of a short story - Of Metal Towers and Postcard Wings - and about to knuckle down and get some work done on Theatre when it began to rain ash outside my window.
A good first thought would have been, "Ooh, time to write a volcano inspired story.'
Or maybe, "God's taken up the evil weed and is flicking ash in my gar...
A good first thought would have been, "Ooh, time to write a volcano inspired story.'
Or maybe, "God's taken up the evil weed and is flicking ash in my gar...
June 8, 2010
Sweet and Sour Things
After six weeks of starving - according to reports on the high street, local sweet and cake shops are in danger of closing down due to CateDeflation - I've dropped a dress size. Go me! And how do I celebrate, I go out and buy the prettiest cupcake baking book in the world. Fail. Deciding I need to hide the offending book, I've secreted it somewhere I visit daily. Double Fail.
Though it does help that I can't bake, cook, have even been known to fail at sandwiches. Goddess I may be, domestic nev...
Though it does help that I can't bake, cook, have even been known to fail at sandwiches. Goddess I may be, domestic nev...
June 4, 2010
The Story Collector
I'm 13,000 words into the Theatre rewrite and taking a break for the weekend. I've had an idea for a short story for a couple of months now, it kept nudging at me, but I didn't know where to go with it. Now I do, and I'm hoping three ugly sisters will accompany it. I feel as if I haven't written a short in forever - rolls desk over to diary and discovers I haven't written a new short since early March. Gulp!
I'm going to try and outline these stories rather than throwing madness at the page an...
I'm going to try and outline these stories rather than throwing madness at the page an...
June 2, 2010
WIP Wednesday: Turning the other *Butt* Cheek
Still working on the Theatre rewrite and yo yoing between turning it into a YA or reducing it to novella length. It changes by the hour.
I'd love it to keep it novel (YA) length, but I'm not certain the book would fit well with Grim or with the next two books I'm planning or perhaps with a large YA audience. I think it may be a small book. The first chapter starts in the trenches of WW1 but it's not a war book - well not an ordinary war book. There are teeny battles and there are soldiers but...
I'd love it to keep it novel (YA) length, but I'm not certain the book would fit well with Grim or with the next two books I'm planning or perhaps with a large YA audience. I think it may be a small book. The first chapter starts in the trenches of WW1 but it's not a war book - well not an ordinary war book. There are teeny battles and there are soldiers but...
May 30, 2010
Welcome to the Twilight Zone
It is important to note that if there are a thousand items in a shop and only one of them is dodgy, I will buy it. My inbuilt-radar won't allow anything else.
So, I bought a new printer/scanner on Thursday because my old one decided to reinterpret everything it scanned. It developed a mind of its own, and I can't blame it for that. New printer/scanner refused to scan anything but pretty multicoloured lines. After cries of, 'what have you done this time' from my family, they discovered I had i...
So, I bought a new printer/scanner on Thursday because my old one decided to reinterpret everything it scanned. It developed a mind of its own, and I can't blame it for that. New printer/scanner refused to scan anything but pretty multicoloured lines. After cries of, 'what have you done this time' from my family, they discovered I had i...
