I had a friend pop in for coffee and gift swapping this morning. As the conversation roamed he asked what I was writing about and my reply was somewhat inarticulate.
He wasn’t impressed. Between my inability to explain and his lack of interest in fantasy it sort of fell flat. Not surprising really we lived together for five months back in the early noughties and he never once read any of the novels I have, the management self help stuff is more his speed, but it did make me realise I haven’t done a synopsis. So to avoid actually writing anything I spent time today on a cover and a very short synopsis
Becca Morris gets caught up with the Children of Annwn and a mysterious group of people called the Coelbren as they race to save 1950’s London from the threat to both realms posed by the Earl of Fog and his cronies.
But Becca holds a secret that could be more damaging to the Children of Annwn than anything the Earl plans.
It is just a first stab but its a lot more articulate than the “well erm there’s this group of people trying to stop this fog fae from using the fog to erm do bad stuff.”
I need to go back to work, having all this free time isn’t helping with working on anything but I’m certainly honing my procrastination skills, and yes the sudden upsurge in blog posts counts as procrastinating
I also ended up tweaking the banner I’m using on the nanowrimo forums. Battersea Power Station is just going to have to have four chimneys. I’m sure they’d have built them first


December 25, 2009 at 12:22 am
argh! i loathe talking cold about my stories, trying to describe them starting at baseline. god, but that’s hard. bravo for taking an awkward moment and turning it into a process for articulating our plotlines. i need to get cracking on that . . .