Daynote - Fri 28 Feb
A Frosty Friday.
Ah, the end of the week. Marvellous.
Another frost this morning, counterbalanced by blue skies, deer bounding through the ferns and friendly dogs at the beach. A lovely start to the day.
ON DECK: Solid words this morning, precisely 1,800 of them (I may have got 1,798 words, noticed that, then added two more to get to the round number). The list of 'things I need to develop/remove in the second draft' is getting longer and longer. But that's for Future Dave to worry about.
LISTENING: The weird thing is, I'm not really a horror reader. I read a bunch of Stephen King and a few other writers as a teenager, but haven't really read any for years and years. But I still find myself listening to the Talking Scared podcast, because the interviewer Neil McRobert is so good at his job. This recent episode with Sophie White is an excellent example. I'll very likely never read any of these books, but I love the podcast anyway.
WATCHING: More KLEO last night. I love when a show picks a vibe and then really goes for it.
READING: I finished THE TYRANNY OF FAITH by Richard Swan last night and absolutely loved it. Great book and a worthy second part of the trilogy. Then I started on Jeff Noon and Steve Beard's book GOGMAGOG, which is as pure an example of a cover selling a book before I've even read the blurb as I can think of. The cover is a single image spread across two books in a duology and it's gorgeous.
LINK: This is a really useful and detailed post about the timeline of publishing contracts, which is well worth your time.
UP NEXT: I'm off to the Luna Press annual party tomorrow in town, and really looking forward to it. Then a lunch with family to celebrate my dad's birthday, which I'm also looking forward to.
Next week is another head-down-get-work-done drafting week, and there's a chance I might finish this book. Still a dozen or so chapters to write, I think. We'll see how it goes.
Onward!