Last week, or was it this week? (time is an enigma some­times) I decided that it was time to put my head down and, to put it politely, get the fuck on with it. I had been tired of not writ­ing any­thing sub­stan­tial, mak­ing up excuses and basi­cally just feel­ing guilty that I wasn’t doing any­thing, which of course just sent me into a descend­ing spi­ral and left my in no bet­ter a place.

Well, now I am writ­ing. I have racked up a good chunk of words and although it might not be a novel a week in, I’m mak­ing no apolo­gies — this is my cur­rent speed, but I know I can go faster. Call it test­ing the waters and lov­ing my sen­tences too much. In time I will remem­ber, and con­di­tion my brain to realise that as long as it’s down, it doesn’t mat­ter how per­fectly edited it is.

The story in ques­tion is one of my old loves: And The Stars Ran Red. It’s a story about sur­vival, iso­la­tion and hope at the end of the uni­verse, and although you could call it epic, you would be wrong. This is not a story about war­ring fac­tions and two oppos­ing armies, nor is it about repug­nant demi-gods and their reign over the end of time. It’s just a story about human­ity at the core. Well… that’s what I have in mind anyway.

You can keep more cur­rent updates with it’s progress here (though I will men­tion it on ze weblog obvi­ously) and I’m going to be updat­ing the site a lit­tle over the next few days too.

As I am talk­ing about Ran Red, I might as well men­tion Nick Enlowe’s Novel Push Ini­tia­tive which I have decided to take part in. It is noth­ing huge, or major, but a nice calm — struc­tured — set­ting in which to keep on track with putting words on the page. Hit and pub­licly record 250 words per day, March 1st through the 31st, or you are out: sim­ple. You don’t win or loose any­thing, but it is an oppor­tu­nity to ride along with oth­ers and push my own novel writing.

I will be con­tin­u­ing with Ran Red, so it fits per­fect… oh and it’s my birth­day on March 31st, so I will win no mat­ter what (but I will be writ­ing 250 words per day!)