Writing Aims for the Year

And a warm hello to you.
And to you, too. Yes, you.
We are month's into the year and time to reconsiderer my aims and assess how things are progressing.
The short story anthology has really gained momentum. I've got a whole bunch of stories already completed and the idea as for more keep flowing. I'm on track to have this completed by end of May, and I think it will be really good, too.
The second novel is picking up pace and should be completed, fingers and toes crossed, by the end of the year. The thing is, I know I can get an average book completed much sooner, but I know making it something I'm really proud of Will take time.
And patience is as virtue every writer requires.
I know what you've thinking, and I agree.
That sounded deep, yeah!

Erotic Publications

Evening!
Came home tonight and was welcomed by a delivery of two copies of an erotic anthology that I have contributed to. It's a great read and the book will be available in all good retailers, including Waterstones.
The only thing is....I have written under a pseudonym and I need to check with the publisher first whether I can reveal that the stories have been written by me!
I will do that and left that and let you know.
I love stories of mine that are available in the shops. My story Sex in Sin City (very intellectual read, I assure you) was published in Past Pleasures anthology, by Xcite Press (based in Wales). I walked in my local Waterstones and there it was, right next to Fifty Shades of Grey!
Mixing with the big boys, I know!

Crosswords

Oh my, I wish people in work would not automatically assumed that just because I write I will be able to answer every crossword question on the planet.
Some of them are cryptic and more to the point, I just want to enjoy my sandwiches!!!
It did make me chuckle, though, when I got the 5 letter answer for 'vibration' straight away, no hesitation at all, thank you very much.
'Throb.'
That was quick, one of them said. He is good with words, another added.
I don't think they realise that I've written enough erotic fiction in my time to come up with a whole list of alternatives for the word 'vibration.''

Short Story based in the future

Morning, and what a beautiful blue morning in Birmingham it is!
I'm entering a short story competition where there is only one criteria - the story must be based anytime in the future.
Fantastic! I'll have a piece of that action. That offers the opportunity to come up with a premise that is truly original, I thought. So I sat down with a pen and paper (first pen didn't work, second pen leaked over my fingers - but the finer details aren't important right now) and started to scribble some notes, cross some out, write some more.
What if there has been a nuclear war and only a few people survive on a desolate land? Great idea! They could make that into a movie. No, hold on. Don't I remember Will Smith wandering with a big friendly dog on a desolate land? Damn those people in Hollywood.
What the characters are actually a clone of the real people? No, that was a Bruce Willis film.
What if a time machine is invented in the future that takes you back to the past? So like a double-bluff. No, that is too much like Back to the Future, and there will only ever be one Back to the Future (well, they made three, but you get the idea).
Or the universe has gone full circle so it appears the story is based in the past but really it is the future? Oh damn those hairy apes...!
And so it goes on,, and on. In fact, I probably droned on a bit too much already to emphasise the predicament.
Right now I am struggling to come up with an idea that has not already been recycled.
But I am going to keep writing down ideas on my pad, until something comes to me.
If you have any ideas, feel free to send me a message!