02 Nov 2008, Posted by Cat in News, 5 Comments. Tagged weekend

good weekend

Finished a new short story on Friday. Well, OK, so its probably not really finished. I’ll need some other folks to have a look at it and tell me what they think. Its a quiet one — maybe even too quiet. These days I do a lot of sitting on and thinking about my stuff before I send it out.

Spent last night in the Blue Mountains with keithstevenson  and Nicola. A very pleasant by-the-log-fire kind of evening indeed filled with wine, seafood paella, Trivial Pursuit (and a big hairy spider that freaked poor Nicola out). I don’t normally play board games but I’m glad the others managed to talk me into it cos it was heaps of fun.

A friend critiqued the first 8 chapters of novel #1 for me and his acute analysis of what is bogging most of those chapters down has filled me with enthusiasm and fresh ideas. Maybe it’s partly because I managed to put some distance between myself the plot while I was ploughing through all that small press stuff in the lead up to Conflux, I dunno… But the book has sprung alive again in my head and I’m proceeding to write my way out of the quagmire (or boring desert in this case)

I’m really bummed to not be at Calgary WFC. Everybody seems to be over there kissing robshearman  right now… sigh.