It's been an interesting teaching year, working at AUT on their Undergrad and Masters programs and also teaching the Narrative Stage 1 class at Unitec. Always sad to see the classes come to an end, in terms of the interaction with students and being able to help them engage in the world of storytelling.
I'm going to spend the summer on my own projects, firstly finishing Theme from an Imaginary Western. I started work on it sometime early in the 17th century. Yeah, I know I look young for my age. It's gone through several drafts and a near-complete re-imagining. I know I underdid the first draft, and it's taken a while to recover from that. Any seasoned writer learns that a first draft is just that, and should never be mistaken for anything resembling the final manuscript. Live and learn, huh...
Looking forward also to doing more work on the next novel after that, Two Rivers, which has been just beyond my fingertips for far too long. It's setting alternates between Paris and Central Otago. Two of my favourite places, and very evocative landscapes (for different reasons) to write from.
No comments:
Post a Comment