This is, perhaps, not completely true. I’m thinking about writing a lot – both about Never and The White Raven. And every time I make up my mind to work on one of them, I get an idea for the other one. In an ideal world, I’d try to work on them both, but that’s not going to happen. Well, it could, but it could be difficult. But hey, nothing worthwhile was ever easy, right?

I was pretty much ready to trunk The White Raven, but then that story started eating my brain again. I’m debating whether or not to add a prologue right now, giving a full description of Alanna’s car crash (apologies for this being meaningless for those who haven’t read the MS). Beta readers, do you think this is a good idea?

Reading has gone completely by the wayside, mostly because I’m either too tired or too busy with the sprog most of the time. I’ve traditionally always read for a while before bed, but I haven’t even been doing that, since I haven’t wanted to wake the sprog with the light.

Sooner or later I’ll find myself back in the word mines. For now, at least I can live in them mentally. And one day I’ll be awake enough after the sprog goes to bed to actually write.

And this…

All of the nominees are worthy of winning:

Nominees for the 2009 Australian Shadows Awards:

Long Fiction

• A Book of Endings by Deborah  Biancotti (Twelfth Planet Press)
• Red Queen by H. M.  Brown (Penguin Australia)
• “Wives” by Paul Haines (X6,  Coeur de Lion Publishing)
• The Dead Path by Stephen M.  Irwin (Hachette Australia)
• Slights by Kaaron Warren  (Angry Robot)

Edited Publication

• Grants Pass, edited by Jennifer Brozek & Amanda Pillar (Morrigan Books)
• Festive Fear, edited by Stephen Clark (Tasmaniac Publications)
• Aurealis #42, edited by Stuart Mayne (Chimaera Publications)

Short Fiction

• “Six Suicides” by Deborah Biancotti (A Book of Endings)
• “The Emancipated Dance” by Felicity Dowker (Midnight Echo #2)
• “Busking” by Jason Fischer (Midnight Echo #3)
• “The Message” by Andrew J. McKiernan (Midnight Echo #2)
• “The Gaze Dogs of Nine Waterfalls” by Kaaron Warren (Exotic Gothic 3)

Photos of the day behind the jump…

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Paraphrased from an episode of Writing Excuses, where they sidelined into talking about writing to market:

“Make the art you want to make, just make it good enough that other people will want to read it.”

Sitting up like a big boy in his pram.

I took a bunch of photos of the little man this morning.  More over at Flickr, click to go to the set of his most recent photos.