I’ve taken a short hiatus from writing proper for the last ten days or so, but I’m pleased to report that the wheels are turning again, and I knocked out a treatment and plot outline for my new short story, Rare, last night.
It’s about a chef at a vegetarian restaurant who gets bitten during the first day of a zombie outbreak. Against the backdrop of a fast-moving outbreak and mounting urban chaos, it becomes a very personal story about a decent, moral man slowly losing himself to the infection. I’ll give it a couple of weeks and hopefully have a working draft.
Still haven’t heard anything back from Asimov’s Science Fiction regarding The Bone Garden, it’s coming up on two weeks now, I guess waiting really is the worst part of the writing process. I have sent stuff to them before, and to be honest, part of me knew I was sending the stuff out there to die; kind of just to test the water, but this one I think might actually have a shot. Still, I guess if it lands on its arse, I just pick it up, dust it off and send it to the next magazine. Hey, I know it might just be industrial-grade copium, but even Frank Herbert had real problems getting ‘Dune’ published. In the end, it was accepted by a publisher who specialised in car repair manuals, but that’s a story for another time.
I’ve been reading a lot during my time cloistered away and have knocked out a couple of non-fiction books, finished The Word for World is Forest, and am almost done with The Three-Body Problem, and I intend to write an extended love letter to the former just as soon as I can stop frothing at the mouth about how good it is.
Been keeping busy with call-outs for my ‘real job’ as a computer repair tech, but other than that, and my role at the library, I have been mostly just living that sponge life, immobile but absorbing everything.
The Star Wars roleplay fusion web comic that I teased a while back took another step towards actuality. I’m working on it on the back burner, but right now I’m busy with a few other projects.
That’s about it for now,
See you in the margins,
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