It’s been a while since I last posted, so here’s a quick update on what’s work in progress.

Like most non full-time professional writers, I’ve been struggling lately between my full-time real job, family and life in general to get nearly as much actual writing done as I probably should. That said, though it’s been a while since I last posted, I have still been writing some short flash pieces - mostly for the quirky crowd over at The Iron Writer, and of course it’s almost that time of year again for the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Competition (starting next month).

Progress on a sequel for Gabriel’s Trumpet continues, albeit slowly. It’s been one of those books where I’ve picked it up worked on it for a while then left it to return a few weeks later. One of the reasons progress has been so slow, is at the moment the plot seems to have taken a turn I didn’t expect and I’m not altogether sure I like the direction it’s heading. Like the original, it seems to be trying to be too many things. Early on I wrote myself into a situation where there were way too many disparate plotlines that somehow needed to come together into a coherent whole. I seem to have rationalised some of them now, but there’s still a lot of work to do here.

I have several longer projects in very rough early stages, but so far none has really caught my imagination enough to take off. But I can feel a new story, incubating at the edges of my subconscious. In the meantime I’m still keen to branch out and try different genres. It occurred to me recently, that despite experimenting with finding my writing voice, I’ve yet to write something longer in the genres that I originally set out to – Psychological Thriller or Horror. Perhaps it’s time to revisit the dark arts?

Hello Darkness, my old friend.