I have returned to Australia! Spent the best summer ever in Germany, still a bit jet-lagged and I have a sore neck, but I’m settled back in. The twenty-three hour layover in Doha was a pain, but I did knock out a few thousand words between flights.

The moon story is finished, I didn’t love it but it got some good feedback, so I guess that’s what second drafts are for. 

I’m learning a lot. My confidence level with plotting and executing a novel is good, and I foolishly tried to apply that exact same structure to short stories. That was a lesson learned the hard way. They’re two entirely different disciplines and “discipline” is definitely the word for it. The more I write shorts, the better I get at all forms of writing. 

I did finish one this year that I liked enough to post on here, so I’ll give that a polish and put it up this weekend. 

I miss German beer.