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 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