The Name of the Doctor

Well, that was fun. :-) And nice to see the Paternoster Gang being shown with a bit more depth -- Strax in particular, as he's suffered a bit from being the comic relief.

( spoilers, sweetie )

authorgraph

I forgot to mention that I have a new toy, namely an account on Authorgraph. This site provides an interface for readers to request electronic autographs from authors, whether to add to their ebooks, or to print out and keep with a print book. And yes, it really is a personalised autograph if you so choose. The author can type a message and then sign their name using a tablet, and the resulting file shows the actual signature process.

It's funded by affiliate links to Amazon, so you can only request signatures for books available on Amazon. However, you don't need to have a Kindle to request or display the autographs.

I've put most of my titles currently available on Amazon into the system, and you can find my account here http://www.authorgraph.com/authors/bookfetishist should you wish to have a play.

finally finished the first draft of Nice Tie

Nice Tie now has a finished first draft. A very, very rough first draft, but it is, nevertheless. done. All 40 kwords of it.

I'd been hoping to get it down in draft by the end of March at the latest, but was rudely interrupted by a bad bout of Real Life. Also, I was visited by Plot in the course of writing it, and while I knew what was going to happen, I was failing to find the exact words to describe it. Even the words I had found earlier had escaped me, scattered on the four winds, during a previous hiatus after the initial burst of writing during PicoWrimo.

It's going to need some heavy revision, not least because the chunk I've been wrestling with over the last two months is happily demonstrating that I do not see my stories inside my head as films, but hear them as radio plays. There is much dialogue, and little description, and I need to improve the ratio somewhat before it goes anywhere near Ye Editor. It has for now gone off to Predatrix for some alpha-reading, to see if it makes sense anywhere outside my own head.

I should probably leave it alone for a bit and come back to it with fresh eyes in a week or two. Time to think about what to work on next, particularly with summer PicoWrimo coming up. There's Taxman, which has been worked on fitfully for some six years now, and can perfectly well wait a bit longer. There's the story idea that I was using to experiment with using Dragon to write a first draft, which I think might work well as an offering for Loose Id's tenth anniversary next year. And there are a couple of... things... which my muse handed me recently, apparently after a hard night binging with the girls on cream cakes and hard core porn DVDs.