27 Apr 2009, Posted by Cat in News, 13 Comments. Tagged writing

donnacon redux

I’m still astonished by how much writing I seem to get done at Donnacon, aka FWOR (fantasy writers on retreat, pronounced FFFWWWWOOOORRRRRRRR!!! In fact, the only downside is the incredulous amount of carbohydrates I seem to ingest while I’m at it. I blame Canberra’s cold weather rather than my own ability to say no to potato chips, toast and chocolate.

So I’m back home today hitting the healthy fruit salad and spit polishing the final four chapters of book one. Book one of what? you ask. Book one of the YA trilogy my long suffering novel has mutated into. So many of my fellow fantasy writers who were kind enough to have a squiz at the thing came back with the opinion that the writing was YA so I finally caved in. As   said, its a tone thing. I have nothing against YA, its just that I wouldn’t have thought I’d know how to write one!

Anyway, whatever. A book is a book and I’m very close to having three of the fuckers in the bag, after which I will joyfully be reclaiming the rest of my writing life. 

Book one is called Effigy. This is pretty funny because Effigy just happens to be the name of an old ex boyfriend’s band. Think I might email him with the news — he could probably do with a laugh.