While There's Time
A brief lull in the busyness that seems to be my lot at the moment, brought on by having just got home and additionally by waiting to see what Sarah would like to eat for tea (Lamb Kare Lomen or a green salad being the two main options), finds me sitting at the computer with thumbs-a-twiddle. So here's a blog post for you, dear reader. It'll keep us both amused for a few minutes anyway.
I don't get much free time anymore (he says, at once bemoaning how busy he is and being glad for the fact that it's earning him money). I can't blame anyone else for it, unfortunately; On one hand I'm still working on Das Projekt, which should have been finished by now but which for various reasons into which we shall not delve has not. That's mostly happening in the evenings now because during the daytime I have a new full-time position with a web development company in Kendal. On top of that, and thanks in no small part to the good-naturedness of my new employer, I'm doing a week's contract work with the Mob, the irony of which I'll leave you to ruminate on for yourselves.
All of which means, of course, that there's little time for honest-to-goodness, pen-to-paper writing work. I toy with things here and there, but I haven't had a chance for a couple of hours worth of sit-down-and-scribble for far too long. Perhaps, when I've finally done with Das Projekt, I'll give myself the chance to write. Or - better idea - I'll sit in Caffé Nero tomorrow (I'm going to be in Lancaster early) and do some writing then.
I've been toying with the idea of podcasting some of my short fiction. I have an alarmingly small collection of short stories, mainly because most of my work for the last six months has been novel-focussed, and the ones that I've got are in need of some serious polishing, but given the glut of ideas that I've been having recently I've been wondering whether I should try to find markets for them once they're written and edited, or whether I should essentially publish them myself.
I guess there's a shyness there that I don't want to admit to: it would be far easier to read my stories out to a possible audience of zero than to send them to markets who would, in my own head at the very least, tell me that the audience for my stories is definitely zero.
To which the only answer is: if you don't try, you'll never get.
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I'm not sure I'd listen to the podcasts (I don't tend to download or listen to many such things - occasionally now I'll play voiceposts with the in-line player in LJ), but I definitely think the audience for your stories is far far greater than zero. I'll happily buy your books :)
# On June 19, 2006 at 19:58:00 by Emma Reply to this