The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier

For now: http://occasionalreview.blogspot.com/2007/07/lost-steps-by-alejo-carpentier.html

Goodbye Coty, Hello Erosion

Is this it? I'm printing up the final version of at the moment, titled, 'Essence of Coty' and getting itchy fingers and excited feelings that I'm opening the pages of Erosion, which is completely written, but needs much, much re-writing. At least the story is there. It's a contemporary mystery about a group of misfits in a long forgotten chalet park on the Yorkshire coast. The cliffs are falling into the sea, taking the chalets with them, but as their eviction approaches, people with nothing left to lose show what they are willing to do. The main character comes into this world and is dragged along, finding that she becomes a saviour rather than the survivor she has always had to be. It's the run up to Bonfire Night and the fireworks at the nearby stately home, Moorland Castle, aren't the only explosions going off.

Ooh, just writing this makes me excited.

Axing words

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh Editing. Have axed down to just above 80,000. What am I doing? My back hurts. Sitting at a computer is hard work...Will there be anything left?