Aug 13, 2016

Thanks everyone, for your preorders and for following the book. I hope you’re all well.

It’s 5AM and I’ve been punching words while watching Stranger Things, which is a pretty fantastic show so far. 

It’s particularly good right now, as the bit I’m writing immediately follows the end of the first "act" of Thrum. Everyone’s kind of uprooted and a bunch of them are hurt, so it helps to have something against which I can measure how they’re behaving.

I finished the day with 1250ish words added, which is less than I’d like (I’d like to have hit the full 3100!), but it’s not a bad haul all the same. Another couple days like that and I’ll have the new chapter ready to upload. I have to write a new song for the new chapter, so you’ll get to see the first cut of that, which should be good for a laugh at least!

I was talking to a friend today, and he suggested that I should find a way to turn the book into a movie musical, which, you know, that’d be lovely, but as I told him, I’ll probably want to do an audio book first. I can probably find voices in my local area to do that project justice, and it would be fun to hear a version of these words and songs rendered by some of the wonderful people in my local arts community.

What do you guys think? Would you listen to what you’ve read so far? Can you get a sense of the music woven into the whole thing?

Take care,
mgb