Today’s the birthday…another year older when I really don’t want to count. I tried to sleep in, but grabbed my iphone and saw on Twitter that the fabulous Lauren Beukes won the Arthur C Clarke award for her book Zoo City published by Angry Robot Books. How fantastic is that? Lauren is great. An excellent writer and a fantastic person. It blows my mind that she’s won. Cool. I have Zoo City in ebook format. I have now wrestled it onto my ipad for immediate reading. Then I went to the Angry Robot bookstore and bought more of their e-books. All this of course got me out of bed and onto the computer.
I ducked out thinking I was in a boot buying mood but found I wasn’t and came home. Then I thought I should do some writing…currently writing a fresh scene for Ruby Heart. Not struggling so much but I am generally fidgety for no reason. I think it is the birthday cranky, crazy mood swing stuff. We are heading out in a bit to the Hyatt in Canberra for high tea. I put a link here to the Canberra Hyatt as it is in a 1920s building and the footman where period clothing. Here
I think I’ll write more this evening as I’m officially still on mini writer retreat thingy even though it is my birthday. (might sneak some champers later).
I am hoping to keep Ruby Heart under 100 000 words. It’s currently 90,000 odd. (How much easier are short novels compared to ones over 150,000?) I have decided to write short ones from now on. I think with what I have to cut and what I have to put in I’ll be able to manage it. I have to rewrite the ending, but I knew that the one I had didn’t cut it first time around.
Cheers
Donna Maree Hanson, Author, Phd in Creative Writing 
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