Absolutely gorgeous morning today - brisk wind, blue skies, cold and fresh. It's amazing the difference that can make - the combination of cold and sunshine is my favourite. And it also gives me the opportunity to use one of my favourite words - apricity, the warmth of the sun in winter. I was feeling that this morning.
Cheeky wee reminder that A RELUCTANT SPY is still on a deal in both the UK and US/Canada - 99p/99c on both sides of the Atlantic.
Other platforms often price-match, so shop around if you're not a Kindle user.
Also - get your tickets for my event in London on the 21st!
ON DECK: The havering I did into my voice recorder yesterday unblocked the outlining, so I made some good progress with that this morning. Not quite finished the high level outline, but I will hopefully finish it off first thing tomorrow, then be able to spend most of the day actually structuring my Scrivener project and laying the groundwork to start drafting on Monday.
LISTENING: I love the What Went Wrong Podcast, and their episode on TOP GUN, which was a pretty formative movie of my childhood, is a banger.
WATCHING: A bit of BAKE OFF last night, which was excellent. No idea who's going to win.
READING: A spot of THE TRIALS OF EMPIRE by Richard Swan (Bookshop, Waterstones, Amazon), just to keep the book warm. I need to start going to bed earlier.
LINK: I do love a good rambling conversation between people of fearsome intelligence levels and this discussion between SF writers Ken Liu and Ada Palmer does not disappoint on that front.
UP NEXT: A beautiful full day of getting my ducks in a row before starting a new novel! I'm excited! Having the time and space to do this kind of detailed planning work was one of my main reasons for going part-time, nearly a year ago, because this kind of work can be really, really time-consuming when you have to do it in little chunks around a day job. But if you can really focus on it, it's both easier to do and the results are better and more effective for actually making the novel drafting easier. So I can't wait to properly get into it.
Onward!
Edit: huh - just noticed this my 700th post on my website. These mostly-daily posts really add up, huh?