Great idea, but the research might be tricky and the cat isn't helping.

Finally found an idea to turn into a story to submit to a steampunk anthology. It can be set in Victorian times and does have the appeal of pitting a group of stiff-upper lipped English people against something completely different, in shape of a catastrophe and changed environment.

The disadvantage is that I need to research what Victorian London was like in 1885 in addition to working out the principle of the science that causes this destruction.

As well as that, there is the idea of the no-future societies. You know which ones I mean. The ones that emerge post-bomb and seem to have a lot of leather and fast vehicles. So what would Victorian post-end-of-the-world groups be like?

The only drawback is that the deadline for this only leaves me with 25 days to write it.

Feeling tried today because my cat,(shown above) brought in a mouse at 4am. Had to rescue it and release it back into the garden. This is one of the drawbacks of summer; the cat finds it easier to hunt.

November is coming, sleeping cats and Up

Have finally signed up to November Novel Writing Month for this year. Ok now can start properly planning and panicking. It should be simple, but I’m worried I haven’t got the characters to a state, where it explains why they are doing what they are doing. At the moment I’ve a lot of ideas and an overall plan, but I’m still not sure how it will fit together. So I’ve just to start the process of selecting which bit’s will go in.

Why is it when you are working on anything, you can always find a cat sleeping within your sight, in a smug way?

Saw the film ‘Up’ at the weekend. While it is a cliché to say how great Pixar films are, it is completely right on this occasion. ‘Up’ is moving, romantic and witty. It has a wonderful opening establishing the ordinary life of two people in love, to explain the hero’s quest and escape and then moves into a spectacular journey, which is enjoyably surreal, referencing stories about explorers. Yet it never forgets the relationship shown in the opening is the heart and soul of the story.