New novel project officially started, by which I mean I took the short story I wrote over the holidays and shoved a chapter break in at all the scene breaks, plus added about a half dozen additional chapter titles that are clearly needed in order to make the story play out over a longer period.
It is the barest bones of a novel, but it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Now I just need to string those bones with the sinews of story.
I seem to have finally, after 12 days, kicked the cold I've been labouring under*. I don't have a lot of energy as yet, but I did at least manage to avert cabin fever and get out of the house on Saturday, for longer than just taking something to the bin. That was just a trip to Asda, but considering I haven't shopped since about the 10th of December (admittedly I was away for four weeks of that) it was desperately needed. Deciding just to go to Asda, rather than doing it after my normal Saturday lunch in town was very well judged. By the time I pulled the car back onto the drive I was a bear of such little brain I couldn't actually figure out how to unload it until I made myself stop and do it one bag at a time.
But it's nice to have a choice of food in the house again! Though I really need to make another trip to cover the things I forgot, catastrophically that includes the tonic water! I'm down to my last 1l bottle.
Unfortunately I' ve done this just in time for Tuesday's forecast of snow across the country....
* Or maybe not, just had a sneezing fit.
