3rd-Oct-2006 07:34 pm -

I went over the few notes I made about the next novel/book/story I have i my head. the next novel I want to start and add to my list of started work!

But in doing so and thinking over it today, what I had written, planned, would make a better novel if I changed a few things. In fact, from one idea, one walk with a scruffy, smelly terrier called Charlie two ideas have spring to mind. A reformed vampire story and a struggle to stay off drugs sort of story.

Of course, my mind is still running around with both ideas in my head and the plot I come out with them both is the same. That same dark torment of temptation. They both can't take the same plot I thought up on that walk but similar perhaps. I feel the vampire story can be the one to take the different turn. The rehab story the original path I plotted out.

This doesn't help me decide which to tackle first but the drug story will need more research and more thought. A vampire story isn't real, it's entirely fantasy and I can just take it all from my mind and flesh out details afterwards, so to speak, which is the way I take these things.

I need to dedicate more time to my writing I think, I let things get in the way, including fantastical ideas about creating a poetry magazine. Which I shall persevere with but I need to cut out some of the other activities I've managed to get myself into. I need to manage my time and life a little better so I can write more, work, tidy, submit and sleep.

Though, I need to sleep at night and not during the day, so I need to go to bed earlier and not find myself online at two am. Though, does this then box my writing in. Write on command, can I do that.

Yes, actually, I managed almost 30,000 words last NaNoWriMo and that was definitely writing on command.

My motivation is better these days, so I must use it.

What more can I say? i have another writing class tomorrow, my only wish is that these class lasted longer, but I have my Saturday classes too.

29th-Sep-2006 08:44 pm

My poems were rejected by Monkey Kettle magazine. The letter said it wasn't down to the quality of the poems, no wait they said it wasn't a reflection of the work, only that they has more submissions than they had room for. So they sent them back.

I'm not feeling too bad about it. I will just try again with those particular poems, they belong somewhere.

28th-Sep-2006 07:32 pm

In Autumn next year, I'll be published in Obsessed With Pipework. It's exciting, and I've told three people. Who have told other people, but, I'm not getting excited. I happen to be one of those people that doesn't get excited until it happens, or it's about to happen. In my case, I won't be excited about this until next year, when I see that poem in print and I'm holding the magazine in my hands.

I know there is another reply from a magazine heading towards me, it came on Tuesday but as the rules had changed on postage there was five pence unpaid on it and of course I wasn't in to give the postman five pence. If they do that. So I had to pay £1.05 to get it re-sent to me. but of course, I have to be on my way to work by 11am and the post rarely comes before then.

I'm thinking it'll be a rejection, because then I don't get dejected when I am rejected. And maybe there will be a little information about why and what I can do to improve in there too, like there was with the rejected poems for Obsessed With Pipework.

My writing class on Tuesday, the second one, was great. I really enjoyed, even though I was still nervous about going. I wish it were longer but I will take what I can get. I will also post the bits of writing I did in the class when I get a chance. We worked on writing the senses, the five senses (even though, QI tells me there are many more).

I'm looking forward to this years NaNoWriMo, I've a story in mind and I might start planning it out, maybe I'll do that at work today.