What I am doing
Sep. 7th, 2013 11:39 pmNot a lot going on at the moment. Just the usual stuff.
The QV museum is having a big WW I one exhibit next year, and I am on helping with that. More about that later, because there's a lot involved, and it's a bit of hydra :)
I have also been going in there an extra afternoon every week to transcribe documents for my Top Secret Non-fiction Project, which is only Top Secret because I haven't talked about. I've been typing up (court) Informations from 1836. If I run out of ideas for posts this month, I will probably share some of them. I finished those on Thursday, so now I'm supposed to be trawling the newspapers for that year. There are some other letters in the museum's collection I'd like to transcribe though. So I might do that too.
Writing, of course. If slowly. Started the third (i.e. supposedly final draft) of what is sort of an historical mystery. I think with mysteries the crime/whodunnit aspect should be most important part of the plot. With this, it's more about the main character than the crime. Anyway, it's a bit silly (deliberately) so fun to write. (Dan is a big, bad bushranger. Very bad. Probably no one has been as bad at it as he is. :)
In theory, still sending out a few things to agents/publishers. Decided I'd try to get 100 rejections on evil WIP but only up to 69. There's a couple more I want to send to, but I don't really feel motivated to do it. I need a reward for when I reach 100. Also trying what supposed to be an historical fantasy. By "supposed to be" I mean I spent a lot of time telling the characters they couldn't do that and having them do it anyway. Ungrateful wretches. No interest in that at all from people I've sent it to. It's just a small, quiet, probably a bit dull little book, so I guess that is leaking through into the cover/query letter.
Not reading anything. I can't find any fiction that interests me, and I'm putting of (research) non-fiction reading that's not related to current WIP. At least that's my excuse :)
The QV museum is having a big WW I one exhibit next year, and I am on helping with that. More about that later, because there's a lot involved, and it's a bit of hydra :)
I have also been going in there an extra afternoon every week to transcribe documents for my Top Secret Non-fiction Project, which is only Top Secret because I haven't talked about. I've been typing up (court) Informations from 1836. If I run out of ideas for posts this month, I will probably share some of them. I finished those on Thursday, so now I'm supposed to be trawling the newspapers for that year. There are some other letters in the museum's collection I'd like to transcribe though. So I might do that too.
Writing, of course. If slowly. Started the third (i.e. supposedly final draft) of what is sort of an historical mystery. I think with mysteries the crime/whodunnit aspect should be most important part of the plot. With this, it's more about the main character than the crime. Anyway, it's a bit silly (deliberately) so fun to write. (Dan is a big, bad bushranger. Very bad. Probably no one has been as bad at it as he is. :)
In theory, still sending out a few things to agents/publishers. Decided I'd try to get 100 rejections on evil WIP but only up to 69. There's a couple more I want to send to, but I don't really feel motivated to do it. I need a reward for when I reach 100. Also trying what supposed to be an historical fantasy. By "supposed to be" I mean I spent a lot of time telling the characters they couldn't do that and having them do it anyway. Ungrateful wretches. No interest in that at all from people I've sent it to. It's just a small, quiet, probably a bit dull little book, so I guess that is leaking through into the cover/query letter.
Not reading anything. I can't find any fiction that interests me, and I'm putting of (research) non-fiction reading that's not related to current WIP. At least that's my excuse :)
