Amazing how time passes when you aren't doing anything cuseful with it. I've been busy Not Writing for the first ten days of the month. First, I had monstrous tooth ache. My dentist has gleefully informed me I've an abssess on the nerve and the only option is to rip the tooth out. I've been swallowing a patchwork of drugs to keep the pain under control untilt he oral surgeons return from holiday. Meanwhile, an old friend is In Country, and since I hadn't seen him for about ten years, and he has never met my children, it was essential to catch up with him. So I haven't really been thinking too much about writing, and now we're a third of the way through the month and tonight is the first night I've written anything 1,000 words on Scratches, 500 words on Traces.
On the plus side, I've had a beast of an idea for ANOTHER story, completely seperate from the two above. I'll keep it in reserve in case I get stuck on either of them. It would be a children's novel, and set in a not-too-distant future. The title and the first line came to me in a bit of a blinding flash type thing while I was mowing the lawn. I spent the next half hour repeating them over and over to myself, lest I forget them. Pretty securely lodged in my head now.
Just amazing how ideas come blasting in, once you start writing.
Traces - 14,574
Scratches - 5,362
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