So, kinda finally…
Saturday, July 11th, 2009 at 6:43 pmI took out the sauntering presence again and made the description like it was before and left a few words undecided, but all these things are negotiable. An estimable beta reader is looking at it this week — may Shiva grant him a boon or three.
So, what’s next? Well, aside from Book#2, I should get on with tidying up stories for a prospective collection. The oldest one, The Art of Dying, is 12 years old, and there’s so much of it that I’d like to rewrite now — but it would be a completely different story then, which I don’t want. It’s very Wardour Street and Wardour Street it’ll have to stay. The best I can do is make it stand up a little straighter, I think.I suppose the same goes for most of them.
I’ve only got just enough words for a collection — the editor would have to take just about everything I’ve written — so I’d like to come up with a couple of new ones, if I possibly can.
But right now I have a good old-fashioned behind-the-eyeballs sinus headache, so I’m not doing any of that. Reading The Spy’s Bedside Book – tasty snippets of espionage, though as former MI5 head Stella Rimington says in her introduction to the new edition, hardly any women spies in it, which is a pity.
July 12th, 2009 at 8:28 am
Quod scripsit, scripsit. “What I have written, I have written” (I was never good at Latin, even when I knew some). Even if you wrote something which, after due gestation, you thought perfect, then reading it in a month’s time you would find things you would want to change because you will have changed. Best to just change what the editor picks up, otherwise you will end up with a different story and a load of new things the editor wants fixed up! I hope you have a bottle of eucalyptus oil (produced in China no doubt!) to help with the sinuses.
July 13th, 2009 at 4:04 am
Oooh, I am made happy by the prospect of a KJ Bishop collection. Good luck with the tidying and the creation of new stories.
July 13th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
John – wise, wise words
Alankria – thanks! Dude, I just looked at your blog and realised how far out of touch I’ve got with everyone and everything lately!
July 13th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
A collection of stories? That would be great. I want. <3
July 14th, 2009 at 5:09 am
I want too
Just gotta make it happen!
July 14th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Ha! My life is vastly improved by the last few days. I realised tonight it’s still been less than a week since I left my job.