Oh dear.

Have I really just wasted almost an hour reading the batshit comment on this article (warning! Contains Sarah Palin)? Almost worth it to read this from an old, wise soul who dubs him/herself Anduin:

Don't you love the sock puppet invasion that took place as soon as this was published?

::chortle::

Ah me oh my. But I must leave off such passive pleasures and press on with my day for there is a synopsis to write, submissions to post, sloes to be gathered and a blood test to be gone through - oh, the excitement, it burns.

Or maybe not. How about the excitement 'toasts lightly'? Has been waved briefly across a candle flame?  Was brought within sniffing distance of a neighbour's brazier?

Sadly, probably not even the last. ::twists toe, looks slightly sad::

In Limbo.

So, Entanglement is finished – well, not really, is anything ever truly finished? - but as near as dammit. The finished ms has been with Sheil Land literary agents for a month now and I truly am in limbo, trying to find a new project while waiting for the yea or nay from them.

I say trying to find a new project; ideas, plot bunnies, I’ve no shortage of those, I have a positive embarrassment of could-be, would-be future novels. For months I’ve assumed that the next Great Work would be the parody of the Cuban Revolution but as I look at it now, I realise that’s just huge, set to be stupendously long and involved and going to need a great deal more thought than I want to give it right now.

Then I thought about a sequel to Entanglement. It makes sense, the original has plenty of loose ends that could be creatively tied, a kind of cerebral, literary macramé that appeals to my evil side. I have some truly dark and nasty ideas for that one; that’s definitely a goer.

Then there’s Shed. Shed began life as a 6 part comedy-drama I was going to tackle in hope of selling it to radio four only, writing for radio seems awfully difficult to me and it would make such a pretty novel, especially when I had such a stonker of an idea for it when I was in Blackpool with me mates a few weeks ago.

And here lies my dilemma. Ideas are flowing thick and fast for both, I’m currently working on both simultaneously but I can’t keep it up indefinitely, pretty soon I’m going to have to settle to one of them and get down to some proper work, but which one?

And when will the agency get back to me? If ever? ::bites nails::