This week I’m over at Routledge, being studied in a paper about social semiotics. It’s a continuation of the mStories project, for which I wrote my flash fiction story The Voice (click here to read for free!). The paper is by Jessica K Frawley and Laurel E Dyson from the School of Software in the Faculty of Engineering & IT at the University of Technology, where Jessica has been taking the exploration of semiotics and the praxis of user-generated mobile stories to a whole new level! Read more about their study by clicking here.
Meanwhile, over on the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild blog, I’ve been talking about handling end of novel blues…
Let’s say you’ve been working on a novel for a while – maybe a year or two, fitting it in between work, life and kids. Now you’re approaching its end… you’re past the novel’s climax and you’re starting to wind everything up… You should feel elated. Yay – your novel is almost done! Finally!
Hold on, what’s that? You don’t feel elated? Instead, you feel down… and don’t know why? You find yourself thinking:
“Why am I even doing this?”
“This novel is a load of rubbish – why am I bothering?”
“Why have I wasted all this time?”
“No one is going to buy this!”
Have you ever felt that way when you’re halfway through a project, or even at its end? Then click here to find out what to do!
