TRAVERSING Z

Leviathan

Visualizing Leviathan

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We had to come to the UK this week for a wedding, so we took advantage of the timing to do some research for Leviathan and explore the North Yorkshire coast.

Thinking about bays, and what might live in them.

You have to look for the older buildings, but I can see Caroline stepping through that little door and escaping the cold winds …

One of the hardest things, for me, is visualizing the size of spaces. In our time rooms and roads are generally open and broad; it’s hard to imagine coming out every day to streets no wider than this, bustling with people and all the debris of people. Hard for myself, and for Caroline as well, coming from her quiet, isolated home.

The view from July

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Splitting my time between my story for E is for Evil and sketching out scenes for Leviathan, all while working my way through the last few episodes of American Gods. Because, um:

There is a sense, these days, of slowly emerging from a tunnel into light, a tunnel that stretches all the way back to the end of 2015. A faint glow that minutely increases each day after day after day after … it’s a fresh challenge to my natural impatience, but for once I feel like I have enough of a toolkit to curb that anxiousness, to focus on what needs to be done, to trust that the light is coming.

Oh, and my essay is finally out! “Writing as a Painter” is live at Fiction Southeast. A long time waiting for this to appear, but it still feels like a kind of truth for me.

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Oh, how we laughed

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No, YOU’RE overtired.

And this, dear readers, is why you a) never rush anything in publishing and b) never skimp on proofing. 12 years of experience in this business! I nearly died of embarrassment when I opened the box. But the designer was going out of town, I was eager to get the ball rolling … so I glanced at the PDF at 6 in the morning and just sent it along. Thankfully a mistake that can be easily fixed, and it was only on a couple of proof copies …

Now back to working on a story, chewing over the Leviathan outline/first scenes, and AOT on Tumblr. Carry on, all. Nothing to see here.