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Hello!

I had all the best intentions of releasing a blog post at least every month to keep everyone appraised of what I'm up to. Technically, there will still have been a post in every calendar month when I post this one, even if it has been 55 days since the previous. Go maths!

So I've just released Helena Burnley vs Professor Endtimes Part One: Rise of The Stunner. I had an alarming amount of fun with writing that one, as possibly evidenced by the fact that it's the longest one yet, only part one of a longer story to tell, and it was released a few days BEFORE the end of the month. Crazy dedication right there. I think the freedom of utter nonsense afforded by comic-book-style villains, plus the natural tendency that classic villains have towards wordplay, means that I can just write anything that makes me giggle and go nuts with it.

I have a larger plan of where I want to go with this, and it kind of all revolves around the (eventual) ending. I realised pretty early on when I started trying to write it that the ending wouldn't work properly unless there'd been sufficient build-up, and generating that build-up without seeming rushed, forced or contrived was something I couldn't really do within the bounds of one month's-worth of writing space (and time). This doesn't mean that I'm padding things out unnecessarily, it just means that I have the space and the scope of explore a lot more of what Helena Burnley, Professor Endtimes, and any number of super-villains might want to do.

It's pretty daunting releasing a story like this in parts, because I can't go back and change little details in the earlier parts of the story to facilitate stuff later one. I made use of that quite a lot when writing Terra Academia, and I think that it was incredibly beneficial. But, doing things this way around will also force me to accept what I've written so far and not spend even more time twiddling with it.

In other news, I entered One Last Dance into a short story competition at www.writersandartists.co.uk, so I've got fingers and other superstitiously charged bodily parts crossed that I get somewhere with it. I'm not holding my breath (I can't think of any situation in which my respiratory habits will help or hinder my chances with the judge) but it'd be a great way to spread some awareness.

I'll let you go know; you've earned a break from me.

Thanks for reading and supporting me.

Iain