Sunday 20th February, 2011

SWASH 2011 [External Link] has been and gone. Life continues.

SWASH 2011 started on Friday (18th) and finishes some time today (20th). You can probably tell from the vague-ness of that comment that I didn’t do the whole weekend. I was there for Saturday morning and a touch of the afternoon, helping Simon McGrory from the Sheffield SSS [External Link] teach a lesson on smallsword disarms. I say “help”, I mean I got disarmed, repeatedly, while he used me to demonstrate the techniques to the class. Despite thus spending an hour and a half looking useless, I enjoyed the day. Snow outside does not prevent fun with swords.

25 Ways To Kill A Werewolf (world info on the Alex Jones’ page) continues. I now only have three werewolves to kill. Which, if you’re interested, means I have three chapters to do away with the “big bad” and provide an end that suits the character arcs. While the book does more or less what it says in the title (presents 25 ways to kill werewolves, subject to the rules presented in that particular fictional world), the characters involved go through a story line that is more than just a weekly monster – their own lives, in fact. The paths they’ve gone on weren’t exactly mapped before I set out but I had a rough idea of how my three teenagers would grow up. Now I’ve just got to heckle them into place for the final scenes. After that, rewrite! Rinse and repeat, etc. Will I get it finished in time for the end of the Angry Robot Books’ [External Link] open submissions (March 31st)? We’ll see.

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