Procrastination

I haven't updated this in a while so I thought I should probably write something.  

As far as my attempts at writing a novel goes, I've settled on the wizard detective story.  I've created a number of characters and I know how the story begins, how it ends and some stuff that happens in the middle.  It's the bits in between all that which are causing me difficulties.

I attended an "evening with Ben Aaronovitch", the author of Rivers of London (I highly recommend that book).  It was very entertaining and interesting but did leave me thinking "what have I let myself in for?" when  it comes to writing my novel.  As Ben said, 80,000 words is a lot of words and I struggled to write 10,000 for my university dissertation.  I'm currently checking out the National Novel Writing Month as a possible way to keep me motivated.

As for new dreams/ideas, I had one for a post-apocalyptic vampire story, which I may have briefly mentioned in an earlier post, but a second dream helped expand on it.  It's your standard 'vampires have taken over most of the world' story, humans live in fortified camps with massive walls to keep the vampires out.  The vampires behave more like feral animals, I'd say somewhere in between the creatures in the I Am Legend film and those in The Passage by Justin Cronin.


The new dream focused mainly on the attempts of one camp to transport supplies, they have to bring the convoy through a valley which has plenty of shade and cover.  Despite it being during the day, they are attacked and then it's a race to get to safety.  I suppose that could be considered as one possible set piece, the main story for the novel would be a trip in to vampire infested territory to try to find a supposed cure.


That's all for now, I will try to keep the blog updated a bit more, if only to prove to myself that I am making an effort.