Another month has slipped by and I only did one post – how terribly tragic of me.
It has been quite a month, my friend Yvonne, her beloved died suddenly, so I had yet another funeral to attend , the second this year. The third one is on Friday, Kerry’s cousin Cory committed suicide which is quite sad too. We don’t know why he did it, his brother committed suicide about 2 years ago, and his mother was murdered when he was little, so he really hasn’t had many opportunities.
I have been writing a bit lately, I have completed a fairy tale, and a short story for my writing group, finishing off a horror short story (with some assistance, because I don’t like the ending…), editing Chrystias and put two chapters up to go through Critters again. Wow, and I thought I hadn’t been busy.
I have been attracted to Steampunk, which I have looked up on the Internet. Think Wild Wild West, the Will Smith Movie and you have steampunk. It mixes olden times (generally the wild west) with romance and steam machines of strange makings. I see it as a golden glorification, but it also seems to have gothic connatations, which is really appealing to me. So I have a vampyre story and a steampunk one in the background, just lurking, percolating so to speak.
Once I have completed the titivating of my fairytale, I will post it here, just to get it out somewhere, still trying to find someone who wants to read it… Not even sure where to begin, not exactly something to put through Critters!
Well, the Speculative Fiction Writers of NZ are starting to gain momentum, and we are now onto deciding who we want in the group, who we want to include. I am excited about this as there are a lot of talented writers in the group, and I hope that I may be able to use their experience to help me gain some – that sounds calice of me. What I mean is that through their experience, I might be able to learn. They are mostly short story writers, so I have decided to get writing on short stories so that I can get something published, so that when it comes to getting a publisher, I am more likely to get noticed because I have been published, albeit on the internet or in ezines – still it is publishing! It is where I hope to get the fairytale eventually.