Drew Sanderson

I woke up singing the chorus of the song The Dressing Gowns are currently working on (so it must be catchy, at least to me), and then some completely different lyrics not at all related to Bus9 came to me and when I got into work I played around with a few chords. As you do.

#AmIWritingANewSong

Thinking about getting some of these in; they have a good price point, there are some interesting title, and I think they look good. Thought? Opinions? Recipes for Lobster Jello?

Four stories went out, four rejections came in. At least one had feedback!
*twiddles thumbs*
I am sure this has been said millions of times, but it would really be nice to have someone else to do all that boring submission, finding an agent, and ancillary stuff so I can focus on the writing part...

Despite the King being born in November, we have the King's Birthday long weekend this weekend, which is not a global thing, or even an Australian thing (other countries and states pick their own dates), but, by crickey! we will not let that stand in the way of a long weekend!

My first AD&D character was a Paladin. The choice was based solely on how cool that picture was.

According to the lies* I have told the taxman this year I'll be getting a refund!

*From a certain point of view.

Tough times here at the bookshop with Benny the Beagle not around; the cat threw up (which is the kind of normal cat behaviour you just shrug about and hope to clean up before you step in it) and then she had to eat her own vomit. The sacrifices we must make in these troubled times, and all that...

I had a bit of an idea for a story and wound up writing a bit of a story.
I think, perhaps, I need to ruminate more until all the pieces fall into place...

I still love that cover.

That's a supportive like, not a "hurrah things are bad" like.

New edition?

One of the magazines I sent a story off to has a 1 minute to 48 hour turn around on submissions. I assumed this was a joke until I got a rejection in 24 hours. As they have no wait time between submissions (only one active at a time) I sent another, darker story. It's been 3 days. That's good right?

That does look like a fun room to be in.

Sent out three short stories today. Now we play the waiting game...

Have any of you actually tried to shiver your timbers? It's not as much as fun as you'd think!

OnlyFans?

I wish I could sleep on the plane - those 15 hour flights across the Pacific were brutal; sleeping would have been awesome!

Looking for a literary agent is much more difficult than I had envisaged.

In order to save myself time, I have given up looking up Marvel characters I don't know and to just assume they are a Jean Grey clone.

That sounds pretty damn awesome; a lot of his shorter stuff is about the right length for a movie (and not always horror).

It's a shame we live in a world where some people will boldly proclaim that they've never read a book in their life, like that's some kind of achievement worth sharing...

To my D&D player friends out there:

Are Kender still a thing? I was looking at (surprise, surprise) the AD&D sourcebook and had completely forgotten about them.

#Kender

I was beginning to wonder.
And sorry you had a shitty sandwich. I swear some people are convinced that being gluten free is just a fad or a way to attract attention.
But I may not have the best of all possible opinions of people...

Maybe a smaller list of each so as to not overwhelm the player?

I remember one that was "name the seven dwarves" and after a few people had named some dwarves we started to wonder if some of the dwarf names were actually smurf names. The discussion of dwarf vs smurf was an excellent icebreaker.

Not to brag, but I got into work early to do some writing and then proceeded to just fuck around and do nothing. I did not even open a document.

#PostEditJetLag

Young dude in here didn't know who Dennis Lillee was (he was looking for a book for his father). Had to kick him out of the shop. The guy is an absolute legend. What are they even teaching kids at school these days?!?

Now that I've finished playing around with my short story collection (previously known as my WiP), it must be time to delete it and move on.
No! Wait! That's not the thing to do!
Actually, now I have no idea what to do with it.
Hmmm...

The Other Side, by The Dressing Gowns track by The Dressing Gowns

New track by The Dressing Gowns!

#TheDressingGowns