It’s Saturday morning and I find myself in an unusual situation as I have a small window of free time 
Apologies to my regular blog readers, my life has been rather hectic of late. Hopefully in the next few weeks I’ll be able to find some time to blog a little more regularly.
Right now I’m taking a few weeks break from the editing as hey, I’m on no set schedule and I’m doing some more writing! I decided a week ago to write two short stories for a competition closing the end of August.
It’s fantastic to be writing again. I’ve completed the first short story in draft. It’s just shy of 4,000 words and the second is about half way done at just over 2,100 words. The competition, like most for short stories, has a 5,000 word limit. I think I’m going to struggle with the second story because it has the legs to probably extend out to a novella if I wanted it to.
On this second story I have been a bit bogged down over the last few days on a few details. Yesterday I had a twenty five minute brainstorming session with a good friend as I was struggling to piece a few bits together. Sometimes when writing I can get too hung upon on one or two concepts and fail to see the forest for the trees, such is my focus. This session was extremely helpful. I continue to be amazed by the helpful attitudes of my family and friends. There involvement is very much appreciated.
That’s about it for now. I’m fairly certain my competencies leans more toward writing than editing, however I’m sure that should come as no surprise to those who know me.
This week I attended an online chat / tutorial session by a friend, Kim Falconer, who is an amazing author. During this chat they gave away four copies of her books and I won the first book, Path of the Stray of her new trilogy. I’m excited about this as everything I hear about Kim is positive.
Only problem is I’ll have to buy her other books now, lol. All writers should read so its all good!
Kim has an amazing website, check it out if you have the time:
I’m going to attend AussieCon4 for a few of the days:
AussieCon4 at the Melbourne Convention Centre
This will be my first ‘con’ and I already have a few of the guests picked out that I will endeavour to chat with. It runs from Thursday the 2nd to Monday the 5th of September at the Melbourne Convention Centre. This particular global sci fi convention comes to Australia once every 10 years.
I’m fairly excited about this as they do breakout coffee session called this bizarre word ‘Kaffeeklatsches’ which I have no idea how to pronounce. Anyway, this is where members (attendees) get to listen to veteran authors, editors etc on a variety of topics. I have mentioned in previous posts how I regularily listen to a number of Podcasts on writing. For me the podcasts are very helpful as its great to hear other author’s stories and issues they deal with all the time.
I’ll be posting lots of details all about the con in September.
