Oh well, The Missus is away in Frankfurt on business, so it is just me and Alex The Wonderdog and The Beak of Terror left at Chez Lock. Not much doing, really. Been doing naughty stuff (i.e. not working or writing) and generally dodging the page.
I had a little fiddle with the “Thing-ummi-Jig” track I recorded the other day and added a middle section to break up the main guitar part. Now it’s more of a song, rather than a continual repeating refrain. You can hear it, here:
Or you can download the naked tracks from the ccMixter site and remix them yourself, by visiting here.
Had some more thoughts about “Dead Rock Star”. While walking Alex at night, I’ve been boring the Missus with my plans for the story. Last night, I managed to map out to chapter ten, which I think is good. It’s nice to have a plan – normally when I am writing fiction I just tend to attack the page and see what sticks. I actually feel good about this story, which is worrying and probably signals that it won’t be appreciated by those that matter: the literary agents and publishers who I will be approaching once it is finished. Did a word count and pass another milestone: 21,000 words and counting. I’m thinking this will be around a 60,000 words in length. A nice short book. I’ve still got it in my head that it is for kids, but they’ll have to edit out some of the rude words. Oh dear…