My Writing Week: Issue 48, Year 4

Hi all,
I had an enjoyable and
stress free Christmas: good food, good company, and appreciated gifts. It
wasn’t too hot and the neighbours kept the noise down. They were probably too
busy watching the huge LCD TV they got for Christmas, the box of which is still
on the front porch so the world, including local thieves, can know about their
increasing carbon footprint.  
We had prawns, lobster,
oysters, and mussels as well as the traditional turkey and roast spuds, and pavlova
with blue berries on top. But just about the most delicious food was some home-grown
tomatoes that had finally ripened a few days before.  
I hope everyone who
celebrates Christmas had an enjoyable time.
Plenty of Aussie Science Fiction to Read
The gifts I received included
four books, three of which were science fiction, two of those were written by
Aussie authors. Along with books I bought for myself when looking for gifts for
others, I now have six new science fiction books by Aussie authors to read. I
hope there are some memorable and innovative stories among them.
I find our authors are as
good, if not better, than those in the rest of the world. Aussie novels like The Sea and Summer by George Turner, Quarantine by Greg Egan, Genetic Soldier by George Turner, The True History of the Kelly Gang by
Peter Carey, Capricornia by Xavier
Herbert and Red Queen by HM Brown are
among my favourite novels. The Dark
Between the Stars
by Damien Broderick is easily my favourite one author
short story collection.
My Novel Writing Efforts
The pace of my novel has changed
from a slow build up of tension to lots of action. I found the change of style
for action scenes hard, but my writing began to flow as I wrote more of them.
I achieved my goal of
1000-2000 words on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. I even did some writing on
Christmas Day. I wrote around 4500 words for the week. I am beginning to think
the novel might greatly exceed 120,000 words because at 65,500 words, I think I
am yet to reach the halfway mark.
Now its time to try and
remember if there were any decent science fiction movies apart from Rise of the Apes, and television apart
from Miracle Day and Fringe for my year’s best lists in my next
post.  
    

0 Responses

  1. Hi Graham,
    Glad to hear you had a wonderful Christmas and even wrote on Christmas day in true Stephen King philosophy.
    I received a Kindle and yet to sit down to load new eBooks. Thanks for the heads up with suggestions.

  2. Thanks, Graham! I don't know if you watch the Amazon Kindle listings but TimeSplash is having something of a 'breakout' moment this week. It's been out two years now and was becalmed somewhere in the depths of the rankings – until this weekend. Now it is in the Top Ten for Techno-thrillers, and Sci-fi/Adventure and at #11 in Sci-fi overall!

    And I'm telling you this because… Well, because I'm so effing chuffed, I guess 🙂

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