At long last I’ve been writing again. Mostly I’m polishing the whodunnit. I’ve taken James Patterson’s advice to use short chapters because he certainly knows how to write a page-turner. At first I thought the main thing would be having the extra white space, but when I came to split up my 5,000 word chapters, I realised that I still need an end-of-chapter hook every time. Short chapters means challenging…
The Canary Islands Tourist Board finally have their new blog live, complete with a post by yours truly. http://www.hellocanaryislands.com/blog/la-palma-heaven-stargazing/ They still seem to be working on links from the main site to the articles, and links between articles, but it looks pretty good to me. Meanwhile, I have another article to write.
Just as Carnival’s starting, too. I’m going to collapse into bed in the hope of recovering faster. See you later.
I haven’t sold many short stories lately, because I’ve concentrated on books. So it was a nice surprise to get a royalty statement from an anthology I’d completely forgotten about. $2.79 My plans to buy Australia are on hold. On the other hand, I’ve sold the story?five times before, so it doesn’t owe me anything. And the whole family is going out to lunch tomorrow to…
A new year sneaked into our house last night. Judging by the way she keeps playing with her own feet and tail, it’s a very young one. I think she’ll be fun and I hope she’ll stay for at least 365 days. In other news, I remember 2015 as though it were yesterday.
In the early hours of September 28th there will be a particularly spectacular lunar eclipse when the moon will be 10% closer to the Earth and larger than usual – a super moon, in fact. A lunar eclipse happens when the Sun, Earth and Moon are in a straight line, so that the moon passes through the Earth’s shadow. If you were standing on the moon when this happened, you’d…