Daynote - Wed 8 Oct
Woodland walks and book blethers.
Back to the woods this morning, where I had a brief standoff with a roe buck who seemed both very young and very curious about this human shambling through his woods. I also finally learned the names of two very friendly Highland Terriers (Benji and Banjo) that I've been meeting on walks for the past year or so. Very sweet wee dogs. It was very wet and autumnal this morning, but I'm glad I made it out.
I've also spotted that Falkirk Libraries have updated their events page to include the Book Blether event that I'll be joining on Saturday 15th November.
I'll be doing an author talk along with similar sessions led by Marion Todd and Kate Foster. I'm really looking forward to it!
ON DECK: A solid 1,320 words this morning in a decent session. I'm running out of microlined scenes though, so I will spend a bit of time this weekend when I'm dogsitting expanding my high level outline and microlining the next dozen scenes or so.
LISTENING: I enjoyed this episode of A Kick Up The Arts with the wildlife filmmaker Gordon Buchanan. The 'All Back To Mine' series is particularly good - I always get some excellent recommendations from each episode.
WATCHING: A bit of BAKE OFF yesterday. Sad to see who went, I'd hoped they'd last the distance.
YouTube has also decided I'm really into videos of people playing jazz records and I'm enjoying the
READING: Roaring through THE SOCIETY OF UNKNOWABLE OBJECTS in advance of next week's event. Having a whale of a time.
LINK: I enjoyed this interview on The Honest Editor about getting a job in publishing. There's an alternate universe where that was the career path I went down (I was trying to before I got a graduate job in IT and moved to London) and ultimately I'm glad I didn't, but I'm still fascinated by how these companies and agencies actually work.
UP NEXT: More drafting this week, outlining and reading at the weekend, then a nice full week of drafting next week. I'd deeply love to crack 15k (or maybe even 20k!) this month on the DRIFT draft, but that'll require some decent writing shifts and a bit of focus. Also, no edits or proofs landing. But they might do. We shall see.
Onward!