What I've been up to

I've been off doing lots of stuff since I last posted. I went on holiday, watched fast cars drive round in circles, attended a wedding and ran lots.

Something I haven't really been doing is writing. I got a bit stuck on some of the more science-y elements of Tain's story. Stuff to do with temporal anomalies mostly. I seem to have got over that hurdle by chatting it out with my writing buddy.

Then I got stuck on a plot point and nothing seemed to flow. Over the last couple of days I seem to have pushed past the tough bits and I now have a 45k novel. There's still loads to write a bit more to work out but I'm much happier with this than I ever was with Sanctuary.

As for Sanctuary, I'm still putting off the rewrite. I've got more ideas to make it a bit darker, more technological and how to develop the characters more but I don't feel ready to write it just yet.

Zombies in Norwich is coming along. I've got three chapters done. I want to wait until I've got five completed before I begin posting. Then at least I have a five week lead time should I get lazy and no finish what I'm supposed to.

Anyway, onwards and upwards!

What have you all been up to?

Zombies in Norwich

Fire-folk on Gentleman's Walk may or may not be zombies.

I've been talking a lot about this on my LoveNorfolk Twitter account. I really want to write a story about zombies invading my home city in Norwich. It would mainly be for people in Norfolk, something a bit different to the usual scenarios. It would touch on famous landmarks and my own personal zombie plan. (You heard me.)

I've got all these great ideas but I'm wondering about how I should go about writing it. I was thinking of taking different scenarios (football stadium, castle, mall etc.) and putting vastly different characters into each to show their reactions to the situation. There would be a few characters cropping up more than once to follow their journey through the zombie-fest. These would be the main characters and our heroes.

Second of all, what format do I use to get it out to people? I was thinking a blog serial, on here. And then promoted to Norfolk folk via Twitter and Love Norfolk.

I'd be interested to know what you all think.