10 Nov 2009, Posted by Cat in News, 4 Comments. Tagged writing

ishtar

Yesterday I put the finishing touches on my novella ‘The Sleeping and the Dead’, the third story in Mark Deniz’s Ishtar project AKA Red, Hot and Bad. I’m pretty happy with it but it has yet to be sighted by any eyes other than mine. So it may well completely suck. The day before I submitted a story to Clockwork Phoenix 3. So, in all, I consider I’ve had a productive writing time since I returned from WFC.

I’ve got a bunch of reading to complete for the Anthologies and Collected Works judging category of the Aurealis Awards. When that’s done I’ll be commencing work on Arctica in earnest, a novel I’ve been busting to engage with for at least a year, probably longer. I had laid down 28,000 words of first draft already but I’ve decided to scrap them and start again after a combination of research and plot structuring led me to some cleverer ideas.