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Trying to get back Beneath the Surface

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In February this year I was sitting on the lounge, just zoning out, when the beginnings of a new story burst into the dark corners of my mind.  It's a science fiction story, which makes sense, given how much I just love speculative fiction. I've never written speculative fiction before, largely because I know that it's a lot harder than it might sound and I may very well lack the skill to do so. I spent about a week madly fleshing out 12,000 words of chapter planning and summary. The story from start-to-finish was all laid out. After that, I started writing the first draft. The first draft is sitting at around 22,000 words now. I'd made a good start overall. Though what I have needs a lot of work, of course. Term two hit. Any other teachers out there understand what I mean by that. I mean that for two weeks, every single class I teach had a half yearly exam that I then needed to mark and provide feedback for. Following those, the reports for every class were due.