I like to keep a few balls in the air at the same time. I think it stops me from getting too stale. I get excited by new ideas. Currently I am working on 8 projects and am at various stages with all of them.

Project 1 – Nick Harper – The Wilderness Years

This takes precedence over everything else. I have written the first draft and now need to hone it into shape for publication in January. Nick is coming down tomorrow and we will paw over it in depth.

The idea is for this book to be a companion with the three album retrospective that Nick is putting out.

I like the first draft. The structure seems to have worked and Nick sounds happy with it. He has changed the songs though, so there is a bit to do.

We’ll knock it into shape. It’s exciting!

Project 2 – My third poetry anthology. I am slowly adding to this and building up the anthology. As each poem is a stand alone I can focus on this project in stages.

Project 3 – Rock On – an interesting idea I had for showing the whole development of Rock Music from the inside – from the point of view of the muse who is an active participant. I’m enjoying this.

Project 4 – Ruminating on Roy Harper – I have completed the first draft and sent it off to Roy. He said he’d write an introduction. But as he has other things on his mind he hasn’t got round to reading it yet let alone writing the intro. I’m hoping he will soon. Then I can redraft and publish.

Project 5 – Zero to Infinity. I’m rewriting one of my early Sci-fi novels. It only exists as a typed manuscript. I’m doing my one-finger typing job to rewrite it. I’m doing a lot of revision as I go along. It’s quite intriguing. I’m on page 42 out of 407. So there is a way to go yet.

Project 6 – Rock Genres – I’ve started doing this and putting some up on the blog. It’s the sort of project you can do in spurts as the mood takes me.

Project 7 – Anecdotes – I started putting out anecdotes on my blog. I will put these together largely for my own amusement. Once again it is the kind of thing I can do in stages as the mood hits.

Project 8 – The Tenement – Is another of those bio/novels. It concerns a block of bedsits that I lived in from 1971-1974. I have all the characters mapped out and a story beginning to gel. It’s going to need a lot of planning and mapping before I’ve got it into shape to begin writing. But I like what I see in my head.

That’s it! It keeps me busy!

Hopefully you’ll start to see the fruits of it all soon!