Well, I’m back in the blogosphere. But this time, I’m staying in the shallow end. There’s an ocean shelf out there somewhere, invisible, almost underfoot, and if you step off that shelf, you’re lost. I’m going to keep it simple. This blog is mainly about my novel (if I can call it that without doing violence to the word), Uncanny. I find it helpful to post stats; it allows you to easily mark progress, and it keeps you accountable if you aren’t keeping up. My bare minimum wordcount that I wish to achieve is 400 words.

I think I can do that.

I’ve stopped forward progress on Uncanny for the moment, and have rewritten the first 10,000 or so words. I’m a lot happier with this draft, essentially because I changed everything. I guess that’s how it goes. It hurts lopping off that 1,000 words that just doesn’t fit, even though you know it’s useless and poorly written–like losing a limb.

I also updated my Flickr account with some much-requested pictures of the new babe, Jubilee. So check ‘em out if you have the time.

For now,

Simon