Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Triumphs and Annoyances

Jessica is in the shop again. I only just had a new master cylinder put in and she started making a peculiar noise - I think the fault lies with the fan belt, wherever it is, it looks like I'll be car-less for WUTA tonight.

On the bright side, I now have all the Christmas shopping done and posted. I may get a couple of little things to add to Teabringer's pile, but I'm essentially finished. Next week I'll do the decorations, once the cleaning is done. I'm feeling festive and the snow is very cheering, if a little lethal.

The writing is going well; I have another publication out (I think this week) in Kinships Magazine. It's Black Dust, for those who know it, which is well omened given that the novel length concept is going out at the end of the month. The Artist and I are working on Black's Magic as a comic. It's going fantastically well and both of us are very excited and working hard on it. I think we may spend a week working on it in January. The Artist also came up with a wonderful origami card for advertising, and I've worked out the art so it works upside-down and back-to-front.

This weekend is the concert at the Library. I'm due to tell a story there and need to finish it up and make it sound pretty, maybe do a dry run for Bertie and Lillian, so that I know what I'm doing. The story will be a weird puff-the-magic dragon/Celtic mythology cross. Perhaps I'll take it to WUTA tonight.

Plan for December: Finish Belinda. Market everything that is currently incomplete/waiting to be sent out again. Clean and decorate for Christmas. Complete the script for the first issue of Black's Magic.

Finger's crossed.

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