¦ dialling in from Sky Bunker ¦
03:32 GMT, Wednesday, 11th June 2008. Purple darkness through the canopy above my head. Dawn's not far away, so this is a rare moment to enjoy a dark morning - during Summer. My favourite.
Born of a Broken Man, by RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE is playing via random selection.
After a month of banging my head against a wall, I'm back into the main vein with Edge: now reached 80,000 words. Very productive few days. Mainly centered around a major character who is involved with things happening away from the snowboarding resort. I went ahead of the current plot point, writing finished chapters for this character whilst the rest of the book sits further back in the timeline. Which has meant a little bit of re-entry turbulence over the weekend as I had to drop back to where I left off with the other major character.
I'm now having to take particular care as this is the point where the life paths of these two, seperate charatcers, collides. How does one see the other, and visa versa? Keeping in mind how the reader may also be percieving them.
Other news: Kelvin is heading over from Spain for a few days. He should be here with us in Cosy Castle by tonight. Looking forward to that.
My man in New York has got himself into the papers in the UK. By launching "Fully Booked", a series of story- telling nights being held in UK, Canada and America, with cash raised on each night going to community groups aiming to improve adult literacy. He's already hosted a successful night in Brooklyn, US, raising hundreds of dollars for New York’s Literacy Assistance Centre. Good for people. Good for me, because the paper featured a photograph of him holding a copy of God Seed. Big smiles from me there, thanks Mr FH.
Quite bizarre: I've just realised whilst writing these comments about God Seed that the track "Sudafeln", by BEAUMONT HANNANT, has been playing: one of the definitive tracks I listened to during the 1996 writing of God Seed. Ahh sweet synchronicity.
Right enough waffle here: time to get down to some writing.
DJr