I've been meaning to create a blog to track my progress working on my novel, Falling, and some of the inspiration and struggles I've had creating it.

I also thought it timely to get this blog up in time for the WorldCon in Yokohama, now a month or so away.

It's all getting pretty exciting.

Getting tickets together for joining the SF tour of China as well as Japan is almost complete, I have one last ticket that I need to get, and it is proving difficult. The train from Xian to Chengdu that the SF tour will join is K385/388 originating in Shangyang. This makes it difficult to book from Hong Kong. In fact I can't. Nor does it appear that the tour organiser can get this arranged for me from the US.

So I'm going to have to phone to Xian direct to see if we can talk to someone there who can make a reservation for me... even if it is the staff of the Sofitel Hotel which we will be staying at.

If I can't join the train then I'm in a pickle - I'll have to fly from Xian to Chengdu. This is frustrating as the point of going to Xian in the first place. Still there is still hope. More work tomorrow.

The blog design itself is in a state of flux, I think that I'll have to do a quick hack to make it look acceptable at first and then work on making it spiffy. The intention is to post images from the novel on the page so that as work proceeds and paintings are made the blog reflects the state of play. Should be a fun ride and I'm looking forward to sharing some of the ideas and characters in the novel as I get it near to completion.