03 May 2008, Posted by Cat in News, 6 Comments. Tagged writing

Arctica

While I’m waiting for my beta readers to get back to me with feedback about Sammarynda Deep, my recently completed novel, I thought I might as well get started on the next one. It was a toss up between a couple of ideas but I finally settled on Arctica, a Victorianesque-steampunky-antique robotty-kind of thing with sea serpents, based on my Aurealis Awards nominated fantasy story of the same name. All that was missing was an actual plot, but I made up some twaddle on the train to Sydney yesterday en route to visit a friend. So, with 1200 words of synopsis now down, I think I shall draw myself a map of the proposed terrain. Yes, unlike the last one, this book shall be constructed in not only a timely fashion but also an orderly manner. The map comes FIRST. Trying to construct a map for Sammarynda Deep based on my own clues scattered throughout the text has been more than a little difficult. And, I suspect, geographically incredulous.