Daynote - Tue 25 Nov
A crisp morning at the beach.
Got out for a walk this morning and it was very crisp and lovely. Cracking view out over the Forth. A couple of deer lolloping away through the undergrowth. Very pleasant indeed.
I'm revving up for tomorrow's event. It'll be really nice to see most of the Bloody Scotland shortlist (I saw Natalie last week in Glasgow, though still a shame she can't make it to this event).
ON DECK: It was one of those writing days where I did frustratingly little typing, and mostly spent my time reorganising. I'm writing a high-level bullet point outline that I'll then develop into something fuller, but that involves me writing chapter/scene summaries at a very high level, then indenting them all and organising them roughly into the parts of the book. It's basically all thinking and occasionally copy/pasting or hitting tab keys. But once it's done and I can sort of see the shape of the whole book, everything else (treatment/outline, timeline in Aeon, structuring Scrivener) is much, much easier.
LISTENING: A great interview with Emma Christie over at In My Good Books. Susie, who hosts this podcast, will be interviewing us tomorrow and I'm delighted, because she's very, very good at it.
WATCHING: An excellent episode of TREASURES OF THE WORLD last night, including what looked like a frankly amazing day in an Estonian sauna. I do wish Scotland had a sauna culture like the Scandinavian and Baltic countries. We certainly have the cold and damp.
READING: More beta reading. I'm focusing on one book now, which is DARK WATERS by Marco Rinaldi. It won the Pitch Perfect competition at Bloody Scotland this year and, let me tell you, it lives up to that pitch.
LINK: Recently discovered this new(ish) podcast called the Prose Pros (via The Honest Editor newsletter) interviewing people who work in publishing. US-centric so far but looks like a really interesting one. Aside - industry-focused podcasts that don't have the topic in the subject are kind of hard to find in podcast indexes. Doubly so when the title is a double homophone.
UP NEXT: More outlining! And of course, the event tomorrow. Book your ticket and come along, it'd be great to see you there.
Onward!