Just received word from Karen Romanko, the editor and publisher of the Cinema Spec anthology currently proposed by Raven Electrick Press, that she is wanting to hold onto my story Nuclear Shadows for a second reading which is good news.
Will wait to hear back from her on her final decision – fingers crossed.
I’m into the home stretch of Guerra now with only another 10,000 words or so still to go.
I’m still not exactly sure what is going to happen at the end, the idea that I’ve had since the story’s inception is starting to move away from me now. For the time being I’m sketching out only the next chapter or two at a time and I’ll see how things develop in regards to where it goes.
There are still a few chunks that I missed out earlier in the story which I’ll need to go back and complete which will probably account for another 5-10K or so which will mean the first draft should end up at around a fairly neat 100,000 words – almost exactly the same as Pretty Little Things To Fill Up The Void.
Well it looks like the 2050 anthology of Phillip K Dick styled fiction for which my story AND THEY WILL NOT BE STOPPED is officially dead.
Never received anything back from the editor Sean Wright, even though I was receiving his emails regarding some musical side project that he has been engaged in with links to You Tube and all manner of things that had nothing to do with 2050, but I was hopeful it was just delayed. Not to be, apparently.
Ah well, that was my only story set to be published this year and to show how badly things have slid this website doesn’t appear anywhere near the top of the search results for "simon logan". (n.b. I am writing this prior to the launch of the rebuilt site which I’m hoping will shove me back up there again which is kind of confusing because the only way you could be reading it is if the site is now live with this pre-launch posts on it…)
I’ve been trawling through Ralan.com to see if there’s anything of interest that might enable me to quickly and easily knock out a few short stories for their perusal as I need to get more output in between n*vels. And I need to get more n*vels done.
*Sigh*
Work continues apace on GUERRA, got the first draft to around 75,000 words and in the final stretch now.
It is wierd to think that after Freya Rose was born I managed to write 30,000 words in about 7 or 8 weeks and in the many months that followed have only just managed to match that over the entire time – I’m still not sure how I managed to write an average of 20,000 words a week when I was writing from 12am to 3am most nights in between baby feeds but perhaps the regularity helps.
I’m continuing to push ahead with it though and am enjoying writing the story loads which is a good sign at least. I don’t think there will be a huge amount of work for draft two but I plan on putting the work aside for a month or so once draft one is done (aiming to get this done by my birthday in November) then revising it.
Other than that I have several short story ideas which I need to flesh out a little more before writing but with time as limited as it is just now I’m tending to focus on the n*vel length stuff, at least for the time being.
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