Scratchings in the Dark

Since coming back from holiday I have been pretty much fully occupied with work and even my weekends have not been as free as I'd like. I've been tardy in doing a number of things - a proper write up of my holiday for my "other" blog, sorting out a mass of photographs and, alas, writing fiction.

I have been reading some though - the Chinese classic "Journey to the West" in a dodgy translation, a couple of books by the excellent Christopher Priest and Joe Abercrombie's latest. Honest, these are not displacement activities.

Nor have I forgotten you, dear reader. Stick with me. I'll get there yet.

Happy Discovery

Ah me. I have been otherwise occupied either with work or with being away on holiday and hence no posts here and, regrettably, no real writing. At least , no writing of fiction.

I did have a happy discovery today though. I was checking to see what was on some old memory sticks and I found a couple of fragments of a stories I started writing long ago and had simply batch copied at some point when clearing off an old laptop. One surprised the hell out of me - pure science fiction and it read really well.  Sadly it was only a page and a half long but I had to check at first to see if it was a cut and paste of someone else's work.

It made my day finding it.

The other was a 20,000 word alternative version of a story I later abandoned. As a story it sucked but the writing looked to me to be OK as a first draft.