In Spain people decorate the tombs of their relatives on All Saints Day (November 1st) . Here’s a couple of photos of our local cemetery. For the last three days I’ve concentrated on giving a short story a major edit ready for an anthology deadline. In the end I wrote 3,000 new words in three days. Now I’m shattered and the house is a mess, but I’m pleased with the…
Nothing’s gone to plan tonight. My son wanted to join a party of kids Trick or Treating around Cancajos without an adult in sight. Now Cancajos is full of bars, and now and then you get some dodgy people around. Sin City it ain’t, you understand, but nor is it somewhere we could leave our son unsupervised. So I was going to supervise a party of two. Then the other…
I saw this boat from my balcony. I think it was trying to get to the harbour before the rain started.
I met Helen and Theresa in town this morning, to see if there was any progress on sorting out their Spanish driving licences. Nope. The man at the gestoría (paperwork agency) explained that the first thing they do is to contact the UK and see if it’s a real UK driving licence, and he thought they did them in batches. Anyway, they hadn’t done it yet. Sigh. But I went…
My story “Scream Quietly” is available in Escape Velocity Magazine – issue one. You can buy it at Lulu It’s 156 pages of A4, or a download (which is cheaper). And the editor said: “By the way, your story is the BEST one this issue, without a doubt. It is listed on the front cover. Unanimous vote by the staff. “ Of course now I’m grinning like a maniac.
The rest of the day went fast, but I did manage some more work on the novel. I wrote myself out a timeline for what happens when, and things are much clearer. Plus 260 new words. 61,156 total. I’ll get there.