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‘Sulphur Diaries’ news

Georgina Kamsika — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:32:04 +0000

I’ve had some amazing news regarding my novel ‘The Sulphur Diaries’ and publishing in general – all to do with the Brit Writers. I’m just waiting on some formal contract-type things to fall into place, then I’ll make an announcement on here. Fingers crossed!

*Scurries back to editing the manuscript*

‘Our Fathers Eyes’ accepted

Georgina Kamsika — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:46:01 +0000

A success for the Team Awesome that is Andy, Nige and myself. At the start of our collaboration, we played around with an exercise from the excellent book “The 3 A.M. Epiphany: Uncommon Writing Exercises That Transform Your Fiction.” The excercise was simple, someone started with a line or two, then someone else carried on the story, until we decided to stop. You’re not allowed to write anything down that night, but start your story the next day. The idea is to see how different the three stories would be even though coming from the same original premise. Your memory and your style would be the major factors in the differences.

Although my original short, ‘Only Connect’ was a mere thousand words, I liked the strange world we’d come up with between us. A mix of mutants, aliens and prostitution, I knew it could go further. I expanded the story to around four thousand words, and yesterday it was accepted by “Cossmass Infinities” to be released in Jan. I’ll update when it becomes available.

NaNoWriMo Week 1

Georgina Kamsika — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:21:05 +0000

After a rather productive week, but a weekend away from my PC, my word count stands at 10,597. To be on target for thr 50k ‘win’, I should be at 11,669. So if I get an extra thousand words or so done during the week, my weekends off will work.

It’s not exactly Hemmingway, but the story is moving along nicely. Still aiming for 50k words by November 30th!

NaNoWriMo Begins

Georgina Kamsika — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:56:05 +0000

1st of November and National Novel Writing Month begins. The goal is to write a 50,000-word novel by midnight, November 30. I’ve not tried it before, but it sounds like a fun way to get a first draft out on paper without stopping to fiddle.

I’ve had the idea for ‘The Sulphur Diaries’ for a while, this is the excuse to get it written.

The Sulphur Diaries is the story of a teenage girl running away from pain who befriends a demon promising her everything that she desires, but at what cost?

Alice Murphy is a normal kid, who just happens to live in an abnormal town. Balanced on a cliff above an entrance to hell, her village has prospered for centuries by sacrificing one child a year to the demons below. Alice is too young to be in the lottery, but when her boyfriends name comes up, she turns to the dark forces below to help them.

My profile – with my wordcount – is here. I’ll keep a weekly running total on this blog, too.