A colony for bluuuuaarrgggh.

The website Litopia is excellent. I joined maybe a couple of weeks back. It’s a writer’s forum at heart. It combines a radio station containing live shows dedicated to the discussion of writing, articles by members of the community and various other sources of information. It seems designed to help people grow as authors as well as providing a place for people to discuss any aspect of the profession. I really recommend it if that is your thing.

I managed to get people to talk about Ribena and vodka during one of the live broadcasts. My work here is done.

I’ve been reviewing the manuscript some more. It’s a lot easier to do on paper. I seem to be picking up a lot more mistakes, inconsistencies and grammatical errors now it’s physically in my hand. Some feedback from my test readers has started trickling in as well and so far the reaction is positive, which is a relief. I’m not really sure how to handle positive criticism. I mean, it’s great to be told that I’m doing something right, but I can’t really go ‘I agree, I am quite amazing, aren’t I!’ Neither can I come back to this blog and start writing about how fucking fantastic I am, either. I think instead I’ll just say ‘It isn’t terrible at this stage of the final editing’ and be done with it.

My brother said I overdid the commas. He’s totally right, as well. An unrelenting cull has since taken place.

I’ve just got my hands on a copy of Orcs by Stan Nicholls. It’s a book I’ve been waiting to get my hands on for a while since everyone I know who has read it says it’s pretty good. The aforementioned brother has a pretty solid collection of fantasy novels – him being all employed and stuff, ho ho ho – and so I occasionally steal them if I don’t want to download it onto Kindle for PC. Will see how it goes.

I’m not being hugely productive during my week in England. I am planning my next book though, which I intend to start when I get back to Hamar. It’s likely going to be the fairy / heavy metal / apocalypse book I mentioned in a previous post. So I’m just kicking back and enjoying my break until then, at which point it’ll be writing for four hours a day once again up. Score.

This post was a bit lacking in substance. It’s my holiday. So nyah.