psg daily

i have been really crap at maintaining this site lately but i have been writing daily and also editing stuff. nanowrimo approaches and i have a very loose idea for the novel that i want to write. it will partly tighten up when i work out the structure of the thing and, as is usual, it will get more cohesive as i write it.

i picked the title randomly using a word generator and almost immediately saw the potential. the literal meaning i almost instantly discarded, but it does have potential as a means of playing around with different images and meanings. there isn’t a word that can’t be slanted and messed around with for literary purposes.

so, however short, i, as i have promised to before, aim to get this site running on a regular slot again.

So, over the weekend I had a pretty major win – the hard drive from my old computer which I had been locked out of for a couple of years was finally resurrected. i have had a couple of people look at it and I was told it could be got to, but after all that expertise it was a total fluke which repaired it. I rebooted my new computer and left the hard drive plugged in and my new computer decided to run check disk on it.

The computer finally booted up and when I clicked through to the computer folder to access the hard drive it was finally reading that there was some data on there. I have recovered several lost novels in progress, a whole host of short stories – some of which I had forgotten about writing; some major missing parts of flash fiction serials, and three completed and edited poetry books.

Now I have some new or rather lost things to put out there into the world and bring to completion. Very cool.

I am going to get back on the ball with this site. I have been brainstorming a lot and have come up with what I think are some great ideas, both regarding the actual narratives themselves and the story formats.

I have also been counting how many poems I have written and spread-sheeting it; cataloguing it by first line, in preparation for a massive release of work that hasn’t yet been assigned to any collections. I am definitely working to consolidate and build on my hard work, and getting this site up to speed again is part of that.