Status: Apr 14 2020

LOCATION: Windsor, Brisbane, Australia.

RIGHT NOW I’M FEELING

Pent up and restless, generating ideas faster than my writing process can keep up. About 55% of optimal.Satisfied that I’ve had more good writing days than bad over the last week.

CURRENT INBOX: 11 (plus 3 outstanding emails I need to send)

WORKING ON

Hacking together a Now page system I can actually maintain.Writing a Black Sails, Black Magic noveletteDrafting a serial about bunny head gunmen to run on the blog through the Pandemic lockdown.Editing Crusade (Keith Murphy Urban Fantasy Thriller #3)Recruiting established writers for a line of non-fiction chapbooks about writingEstablishing online homes for Brian Jar Press as an entity seperate to Peter M. BallMultiple sets of contracts that need to be finalised.Developing a new mindset around blogging and online engagement, designed to recapture some of the shit that’s gone missing since social media became the dominant appraoch.

THINKING ABOUT

Structuring a prose-based publishing company around comic book publishing models.A vignette-based writing project that might go on social media.A future series about a post-Atomic Age city, after all the science heroes like Doc Savage have crested and rusted away.How to pull apart the tools of self-publishing to utilise it in more interesting ways.How to plug terrifying holes in my budgets as a result of Covid-19.

ON HAITUS

Disposable Bodies, a novella being drafted for my thesis (resuming work on May 1)A supplementary Keith Murphy series about life on the Gold Coast while awaiting Ragnarok (too close to the current age)

READING

THE MAN OF BRONZE: DOC SAVAGE , Kenneth Hobeson DOC CHAOS: THE CHERNOBYL EFFECT , David Thorpe MASTER & COMMANDER , Patrick O’Brien

LISTENING TO

FLIGHT PATHS , The Paradise Motel

WATCHING

DEATH NOTE (2006)

CHANCE THAT I WILL DEPLOY ORBITAL LASERS TO DESTROY YOU ALL IN THE COMING WEEK?

34.45%

STATUS OF THE ADMIRAL