Things Done and To Do

It’s been a long week, so forgive me for a general update post. I was away for work, again, a trip which culminated in my worst flying experience yet: to summarise, it is not ideal to get off a plane in Terminal 2 at 10.55pm when you’re supposed to be taking off in another one in Terminal 4 at 11. I made it, though. My luggage did not. But it’ll be here eventually, so I’m just dealing with the aftereffects of the soul-delaying jet-lag.

I then spent yesterday first at my other job and then in east London singing. I’m in a choir called Ready Singer One. We sing videogame music. It is amazing. This time we were supporting an orchestra (the LVGO, a group of fellow musical nerds), which sounded bloody good. I can now add singing in 4 different languages to my CV, and 3 of them are real ones. (We actually got a mention on the BBC of all places the other day, though we have yet to be contacted about the Proms. Maybe next year…) At some point I will write properly about how incredible the experience of being in this choir is, but suffice it to say for now that it’s phenomenal. Being part of a greater whole is cool – being part of a greater whole that is uniformly obsessed with sci-fi and fantasy in all its forms is even cooler.

So it’s been a busy week in a busy year, which means writing has just been plodding along at its normal pace. Secret Redraft Project is proceeding fairly well, as my POV characters are finally about to meet and punch one another in the face, which turns out better than you might expect. I think the world is turning out more fleshed-out than before this time round, which is good as that’s the whole point of redoing it. It’s relatively slow going though. I have only so much time to write at the moment and it does slow me down.

However, happily, once various things are finalised (the specifics of which I will share once they are), I should soon have a fair bit more time and headspace to write with. Which bodes well for the long, long list of projects I want to get cracking on, including, but not limited to:

Boiling Seas 3 (which I have loosely started but needs a proper plan)A bundle of short story ideasEditing whichever book I try and publish this year – currently down to 2 choices, one of which will either require much more or much less work than the other…The aforementioned current Secret Re-Write

It’s a lot of work. But I’ll get through it somehow. Boiling Seas 3 definitely isn’t coming till next year at the earliest, but it was never going to be. I’m essentially torn between which old manuscript to dust off and tweak for this year. It’s a choice between dark epic fantasy and some much older cyberpunk-ey stuff, which would be a bit of a departure from my previous catalogue but is also a book I’m rather fond of. So if you’ve got any preferences, let me know.

More news soon. But it’s all ticking over well enough.