Catch up

Where has October gone?

I spent the first week, or thereabouts, in Canada on a short holiday and since then have been busy with real-world things. However, I finished that post-referendum story and am about halfway through a new vamp story, though not the Chinese one which will come later.

The post-referendum story was essentially flash-fiction and I bookended it by re-written things I first wrote in 2000-2001. Revisiting them was interesting and I re-wrote them by halving the word-count and generally tightening them up. It is around 3500 words. In my head it is a 75,000 word novel but 71,500 of those words are implied.

The new vamp story is mostly set in the USA in the early 1920s. I had to put it aside to get on with some work but the second half exists in my head so at some point I'll dump it all onto the page before revising it. I quite like it so far. I'll be in the USA in early November so I may get the chance to get it finalised in the jet-lagged hours in my hotel.