Daynote - Wed 10 Dec

I'm awaiting a connection home after my sleeper trip, which seemed to have got through the outer edges of Storm Bram unscathed, thankfully. That was good because I needed a good sleep after hot-footing it around London to sign some books and get some dinner.

But a bit of coffee and I will be a new man. And I did have breakfast sitting opposite a very nice guy from Stirling this morning - the sleeper can be a lot of fun for meeting people.

ON DECK: Still fiddling with the outline for Project VAULT this morning, as I wait for trains. I've begun to treat any writing or writing-adjacent work I get done while travelling as a bonus, rather than a baseline, because it's rare to get the kind of solid, uninterrupted chunk of working time that I get at home. Much easier on the pysche, I find.

A very exciting email yesterday portends good things for at least one of my projects. We're inching towards exciting things on many fronts, but I can't talk about any of them. Soon though, hopefully!

LISTENING: A really good podcast I listened to while wandering around last night was this CrimeTime FM interview with Holly Seddon, Steve Cavanagh and SR Masters. Lots of good chat about the art of good hooks.

WATCHING: No telly last night, unless you count random Youtube videos about ARC Raiders while sitting in train lounges.

READING: More of my friend's near-future novel last night before I conked out, as well as my other friend's short story. Back to published books over the Xmas break I think.

LINK: I do enjoy Julian Simpson's Wednesday Wonders posts. This week is no exception. Some excellent links.

UP NEXT: Get home, drink copious amounts of tea and unpack, then I'm going absolutely nowhere until January. That's quite enough travel for one year. And I will crack this outline and be draft-ready by next week hopefully (which is my last writing week of the year, I think, unless I sneak in a short story before the curtain falls). Hard to believe the year is nearly done.

Onward!