It’s been raining in Sydney. It has
been raining almost continuously for the last ten days or so. And we’ve got
crazy hail storms.
My back veranda is covered with alsynite
roofing. It was punched by fist sized spiky hailstones and it did not win the
fight. As far as I can tell the house roof doesn’t have any broken tiles. From my
walks, I can see that none of my neighbours are sporting tarpaulin roof covers.
So that is some good news. The laundry pile of Mount Washmore is increasing
daily and my whole house feels damp; everything has a grimy surface touch. Ugh.
I HATE it. Unintelligible frustration noises.
But back to writing… my brain won
the ‘hey let’s write that shiny new idea’ battle. I have allowed it six weeks
to write one shiny new idea that was almost fully plotted out. It should be
about 90,000 words - a standard novel length. [I am aware that being at war
with my own brain is … odd.]
Here’s my short blurb for it
(which needs work):
Gen, the magic shop owner and low grade witch is
just trying to keep her head down when her aunt is kidnapped by some guys who
want her to cast death magic on the local sheriff. It’s a trap; she knows that,
but she can’t tell what they really want.
Dominic, the cat shifter, thinks he has found a
witch who could make him her familiar but she’s got troubles of her own and her
power is too low to hold him.
Can they rescue her aunt and foil the bad guy’s
plan without killing anyone? And can Dom stay by her side forever as her
witch's familiar?
To do that Gen might have to hold her head up and
be seen and that scares her more than anything.
Like most things I’m not sure
where the idea comes from. I saw a one sentence prompt 'what do you mean you're closed?'. I wrote a short story about a small girl who turned
a guy into a toad, I had some other random ideas about shifters and witches familiars
and then I saw a cute shot of a black and white cat wearing a bow tie… and
voila.
I used pacemaker app to set a
random daily target and it is going really well. I even added in a whatsit to
the blog so you can see how I’m going, too. Public accountability.
I have it on random, but there are
several different ways to set up the daily targets.
40,000 down… 50,000 to go.
Links:
The hut - my short story on magic,
girls and toads
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