Meeting Kate Long

Completed some questions about character - It was useful to think about incidents that had happened to them - it led to lots of ideas about background for characters - lots of material to show what they are like - rather than tell - was a very useful exercise.

Illustrated story

I wanted to make a sound recording of my latest short story - and illustrate it - I have an ambition to launch it from a QR code - to play as a short story for people on the move - to listen to on a phone when you're out and about - with pictures if you want to look - but they add atmosphere without being key to the story - I'd like the pictures to be as if you're looking through a series of photographs - going through disjointed details of someone else's life - a bit like the central character does.

Relaunching the Button Jar

Going to promote and...

Pepys Road

Just signed up yesterday to Pepys Rd at Storythings.com.

Its a marketing devise for Citadel, a novel by --

I like the premise - you sign up - it asks where and when you were born and where you live now. The idea is that then by sending you a series of questions through email it will tell you how you fair over the next 20 years and how you end up in Pepys Rd. The question when it came though wasn't really a question. Two alternative statements were posed. Either I would be watching the Olympics this summer or I would avoid them. I was then taken to a web page - a story by the author - but it wasn't really a story - more a statement about the Queens jubilee and the Olympics being representative of luck and chance and the hand we're dealt at birth - For me this was strange to lump together the Olympics and the jubilee in this respect - As an experience it hasn't whetted my appetite yet - I have no expectations of what might happen next - and no sense of any characters, or locations or plot.