It’s been a week of much wordage. I would be way ahead of my NaNoWriMo word-count by now, had I not been ambushed by a back-story. Late Sunday evening I realised that around about Tuesday a new character would be making an appearance in Guardians of Paradise who could, if I didn’t put in the […]
Whatever happened to Saturday night?
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 8 November 2008 0
Getting on with it
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 2 November 2008 0
I’m doing National Novel Writing Month again. I did it 2 years ago (successfully), in the pre-publication days when I needed something to make me write. The result of that little splurge, Epiphany Night remains unsold, but I have hopes for it coming out some day. Though I’m currently lucky enough to be writing for […]
Restoring my faith in humanity
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 30 October 2008 0
I love Freecycle. Over the last few years we’ve used it to give away a number of items that were of no further use to us, but might be useful to someone else. This week, for the first time, I had cause to ask for something. Specifically, for a means to warm my garret until […]
Taking the lifestyle a little too far…
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 28 October 2008 0
As garrets go mine is pretty luxurious, being carpeted, well lit and heated. Usually. The radiator has packed up, just in time for winter, leaving it sufficiently cold up there that I’ve taken to typing with fingerless gloves on, like a proper struggling artist. In the short term I think I’ll be moving downstairs to […]
Ten years ago …
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 24 October 2008 0
… I attended the One Step Beyond writers’ workshop in Torquay, a one-off event for would-be SF writers. I think it was actually early October 1998, but can’t quite remember the date, though some details of that week are still crystal clear: the initial sense of panic when our tutor, writer and teacher Liz Holliday, […]
Three years ago …
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 19 October 2008 0
… I was en route to Peru, for the start of my Big Trip. The three-and-a-half month round-the-world holiday took in bits of South America and most of New Zealand, not to mention short stays on Easter Island, Singapore and Indonesia. I wrote the whole thing up as I went along (sometimes from less than […]
Back now, out now
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 14 October 2008 0
Newcon was good, although the fish market was slightly chilly at night and provided occasional surreal moments. For example, it was only when the dealers’ room was packing up that I realised the booksellers had not, as I thought, brought big sloping tables to display their wares on; they were in fact using the marble […]
Newcon
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 10 October 2008 0
I’m off to Newcon 4 later today, an SF convention being held (much to my editor’s amusement) in a converted fish-market in Northampton. Actually, despite the inauspicious setting, it looks like it’s going to be a pretty good little con. I’m doing a reading (I still haven’t decided exactly of what) and I’m on a […]
Oddly apt
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 8 October 2008 0
After my return from Milford my intermittent neck and upper back complaint flared up again, getting so bad that last night I shelled out for an osteopath (good job I got that tax rebate last month; I’d been planning to spend it on something nice … actually, not being in pain is nice, just not […]
I left my brain in north-west Cymru
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 6 October 2008 0
As usual, Milford has left me both energised and exhausted. This year there were twelve of us – half people I knew, half new faces – and everyone brought (at least) two pieces to be critted, so we had a heavy workload. It felt a bit odd to be the only ‘filthy rotten pro’ aside […]