I added 4,500 words to
Command Authority, which now stands at 159,500 words.
I've discovered a couple of writing-related groups in St Annes, the town just south of Blackpool. The first is a once-a-month open mic night, which has been going for a while, and the second is a twice-a-month writers' group, which started recently. We'll see what comes of them.
I wrote a new fantasy short story from a prompt given by the Blackpool writers' group - "Someone wins a small fortune in a lottery but gives it all away. Why?" I might share it with my newsletter subscribers, once I've thought of a better title than
The Lottery.If you're not already a subscriber to my newsletter, go to
http://eepurl.com/_5EDX to sign up. Subscribers get to read (so far) four other short stories. (Full disclosure: three of them also appear in
Racing the Storm and Other Stories. The fourth one,
Theory and Practice, hasn't (yet) appeared anywhere else.)