Status: Apr 14 2020
LOCATION: Windsor, Brisbane, Australia. RIGHT NOW I’M FEELING Pent up and restless, generating ideas faster than my writing process can keep up. About 55% of optimal. Satisfied that I’ve had more good writing days than bad over the last week. CURRENT INBOX: 11 (plus 3 outstanding emails I need to send) WORKING ON Hacking together a Now page system I can actually maintain. Writing a Black Sails, Black Magic novelette Drafting a serial about bunny head gunmen to run on the blog through the Pandemic lockdown. Editing Crusade (Keith Murphy Urban Fantasy Thriller #3) Recruiting established writers for a line of non-fiction chapbooks about writing Establishing online homes for Brian Jar Press as an entity seperate to Peter M. Ball Multiple sets of contracts that need to be finalised. Developing a new mindset around blogging and online engagement, designed to recapture some of the shit that’s gone missing since social media became the dominant appraoch. THINKING ABOUT Structuring a prose-based publishing company around comic book publishing models. A vignette-based writing project that might go on social media. A future series about a post-Atomic Age city, after all the science heroes like Doc Savage have crested and rusted away. How to pull apart the tools of self-publishing to utilise it in more interesting ways. How to plug terrifying holes in my budgets as a result of Covid-19. ON HAITUS Disposable Bodies, a novella being drafted for my thesis (resuming work on May 1) A supplementary Keith Murphy series about life on