Continuing this serialised novel of murky goings-on in the great outdoors.
Free to read.
https://open.substack.com/pub/theshatteredmoon/p/the-kanchenjunga-manifestochapter-209

#WordWeavers 23/3: What are you careful about when writing?
Everything. Though maybe not all at the same time. But I’m careful about grammar and punctuation from the off, because I can’t write any other way, and I check any significant points of fact (the laws of physics, Captain, but also the history and geography of the story world) as I meet them, to avoid wandering down blind alleys and messing things up for later.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 23/3: What's the most you've worked on a WIP before deciding to scrap it? What happened?
If I ever ‘scrapped’ anything, it would have been a very long time ago (>30 yrs), before my first real computer, in a purge of paper files. Since then nascent stories and orphan scenes have fairly often been consigned to the digital equivalent of the back of the filing cabinet, but not scrapped.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 22/3: How do you organise your notes? (No notes?)
What notes? Is this a music question?
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#WordWeavers 22/3: Subject represented poorly in media?
Central to my freelance career, it still pains me that outdoor activities are either disparaged, ignored, or warped—the Red Bull/X Games distortion of things almost anyone could do into ‘extreme sports’.
I haven’t directly addressed this in my fiction, except by portraying people walking, climbing, riding bikes, as just ordinary people doing ordinary things.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 21/3: Do you celebrate any writerly anniversaries or special occasions?
We set publication date for Three Kinds of North on the anniversary of our civil partnership. Subsequent books have appeared at six-month intervals, so each year there’s a double celebration in February, and we normally go away for the night, stay in a nice pub somewhere, and take launch day photos somewhere different.
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#WordWeavers 21/3: Where does your MC fall, on a scale of timid to recklessly brave?
One could say the defining moment of Jerya’s life was setting out into/across the mountains without a clue whether there’d be a pass or what they might find on the other side. That was reckless by any measure. She hasn’t done anything quite as wild in the years since, but she can still be bold when the occasion merits.
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#WordWeavers 20/3: How much romance is in your story?
At least one romance thread is significant in each of the Shattered Moon books. Jerya/Rodal, Jerya/Railu, Jerya/Hedric, Railu/Skelber, Mavrys/Vireddi, and so on. And a romance is so central to Book 8 that I’m considering using the character names for the title.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 20/3: Who is your ideal reader?
I don’t really think about this, in the sense of having a particular type of person in mind when I’m writing. I feel that would only inhibit me in telling the story. Of course there is an ideal reader, and she/he/they is anyone who likes my books—and tells lots of other people how great they are.
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