Daynote - Sat 24 May
A rainy Saturday of writing.
It's the weekend before a deadline, so I've been doing a bit of writing today, since the long dry spell has finally broken and it's both windy and wet outside (but oddly warm).
ON DECK: A really solid session today - I got -389 words in total, but I squared away sixteen chapters and finished Part 4 of PROJECT SCARLET. Now there's just Part 5 to do, which is a snip at 32k words.
LISTENING: Great interview with Simon Scarrow over on the Writer's Routine podcast. It never fails to fascinate me how profoundly different people's approaches to this work can be.
WATCHING: A bit of RACE AROUND THE WORLD last night. Added Shimla in India to my list of places I'd absolutely love to see myself.
READING: More BELIEVE. If you fancy a copy of it, Sarah is running a giveaway on her Instagram today. It's a great book.
LINK: This is an absolutely fascinating post about sales volumes and the 'magic number' that means a book is working in the marketplace. Spoilers - it depends.
UP NEXT: I've hit my goal for the weekend, having squared Part 4 away. I don't need to do any writing tomorrow, but I might. Also, Monday is a bank holiday, so I'll have a good chance to perhaps actually finish this thing a couple of days early. Which will give me another chance to re-read it. I probably won't be able to read the whole thing in detail again, but I can do a sense-check/skim/typo-hunt across the final, exported document, tweak everything and put together my submission email. I'm pretty close.
Onwards!