posted on 16 December 2008 07:46
by
DavidR
Fog bliss and NTODS slides into exception
¦ dialling in from workstation ¦
07:37 GMT, Tuesday 16th December 2008. I woke up this morning to find the world submerged within dense fog. I leapt out of bed, dressed, knocked back a mug of tea, kissed my lady goodbye and hurried into my car. Dashboard lights on, heater on, windscreen wipers swiping away the veneer of moisture on the screen and then off… trundling down my road with ghostly swirls of fog curing around the twin beams. I turn onto the main road: it’s just past 7AM, darkness still cusps the sky, traffic is sparse and fast moving. Lamp lit windows and the bright glare of road-side garages slip past, smudged within the fog.
Within five minutes I’m out of the city and hitting dark roads…the fog ever more dense and atmospheric, and now a rich Prussian blue is leaking into the inky bowl of sky above and to the far rural horizon. I shove in the cassette of old eerie tunes, early Gary Numan and William Orbit.
Perfect.
Christmas is fast approaching. Two weeks for me up North, in Newcastle, in the blissful bubble of Jesus Mound. Having written free of the changes and updates to Shadows of the Quantinex (just released Beta version 6.0) I’m now back onto NTODS… and taking the viewpoint that NTODS is dragging on far too long. I’ve decided to work on it up until Christmas and then shelve it. It’s not essential to the world of Yellow Dawn – more of a nice to have. And I’ve more important projects to press ahead with. Releasing the new version of Yellow Dawn primary rulebook (2.1) and starting the next novel, Dog Eat Dog.
Djr