State of the writer
Tags: blog, book 3, novel, obsidian and blood, personal, progress July 1st, 2010So, it looks like I have about half an outline for book 3. Missing: any kind of sense, and a number of plot elements which come in way too late. Slowly chipping away at it…
Also, I’m sitting on a piece of good news I’m dying to share, but can’t right now (and nope, it’s not the one in the next post). Stay tuned for an update (I hope soonish, but you never know in this crazy environment…)
And finally, I’ve started learning Vietnamese. Currently struggling a lot with a number of wrong-footed instincts (tonal languages are %% counter intuitive when you’ve never learnt one, and I’m mixing up a lot of the many many vowels as well. On the plus side, the alphabet’s mostly recognisable)…
PS: and here’s an obligatory short reminder that you can win a pretty anthology, simply by leaving a comment in this post until next Wednesday.





July 2nd, 2010 at 10:25 am
Good luck with learning Vietnamese! I haven’t dared starting yet…
July 4th, 2010 at 9:12 am
Thanks!
I figured the sooner I started, the more brain cells I’d have left to devote to it
July 8th, 2010 at 7:35 pm
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