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 the Gold Coast while awaiting Ragnarok (too close to the current age)
READING
- THE MAN OF BRONZE: DOC SAVAGE, Kenneth Hobeson
- DOC CHAOS: THE CHERNOBYL EFFECT, David Thorpe
- MASTER & COMMANDER, Patrick O’Brien
LISTENING TO
- FLIGHT PATHS, The Paradise Motel
WATCHING
- DEATH NOTE (2006)
CHANCE THAT I WILL DEPLOY ORBITAL LASERS TO DESTROY YOU ALL IN THE COMING WEEK?
- 34.45%
STATUS OF THE ADMIRAL
