Meet the new project du jour destined to occupy my evenings: Black Candy Draft Projected Total: 80,000 Total Words to Date:9,466 Words Done in Previous 24-hour Period: 609 Deadline: July 23rd Yep, I’m taking another stab at the problem dubbed “Peter Doesn’t Have a Finished Novel.” This became the most likely candidate because I...
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Writer, Gamer, and Angry Nerd
Currently Pimping
There’s a dead girl in a dumpster and a unicorn on the loose – and no-one knows how bad that combination can get better than Miriam Aster.
Horn is available now from Twelfth Planet Press
For ten years ex-cop Miriam Aster has been living with her one big mistake – agreeing to kill three men for the exiled Queen of Faerie.
Bleed is available now from Twelfth Planet Press
Monthly Archives: April 2009
New Project Update
Horn Launch
I don’t know where you will be on June 7th of this year, around 5 pm or so, but there’s a very good chance that you can find me here. To quote from the Conjecture blog: Horn by Peter M Ball Book 2 in the Twelfth Planet Press Novella Series There’s a dead girl...
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Dancing Monkey Post 2: Memories of Brisbane’s Ferry System
The Dancing Monkey challenge from lauragoodin: “write a blog post about being on a Brisbane ferry. At night. And it’s raining. And you’ve spent your last money on the fare.” I suspect it’s not what Laura intended, but every time I read that request all it translates into is “please tell me what it...
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The summary
Classes yesterday, meetings today, marking tonight, and marking tomorrow. With luck, I’ll be back on Thursday with some monkey dancing. ’til then…
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Claw Update.
Went away after the last post, wrote 898 words, then realised I was done. The net for Draft One is 20,799 word, and there is a part of me that’s still kind of shocked that I’ve written something that long. I don’t do long that often, and I can still remember two years ago...
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Claw Update
Claw Draft Projected Total: 21,000 (which will probably expand out to 25,000 next draft) Total Words to Date: 19, 881 Words Done in Previous 24-hour Period: 3236 Deadline: April 30th So close to the end, and yet I find myself paused but a thousand words (and one scene featuring the reconciliation of the hard-boiled...
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Bonus Youtubery
Because it’s the day for it, really.
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For those who will find it interesting…
Nancy Kress on writing a paragraph, which proves a nice glimpse of work-process-in-action.
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Claw Update
Claw Draft Projected Total: 25000 Total Words to Date: 16,645 Words Done in Previous 24-hour Period: 2,097 Deadline: April 30th Chapter Eight is done. My plans for tomorrow have just been cancelled, so I’m thinking I may try and push for the end of the draft instead. With luck, tomorrow night’s update will involve...
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Dancing Monkey One: Watch The Middleman, you bastards.
A steady trickle of blog topics rolling in response to my offer to be a Dancing Monkey this week (though most come, as most of my comments do, through the livejournal feed). Pushes my thoughts in interesting directions, it does, with enough random writerly nonsense included to keep me going for a while. Logically they...
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