Excellent stuff from Wayne, Oliver and Culla over at the decades' blogs….

I’m a bit quiet at the moment as I’m, well, not exactly writing a novel but basically thinking about one a lot. I have the same experience every time I start something new, I tell myself this time I’ll keep it straightforward, commercial and after about two pages it all goes horribly wrong and you find yourself shackled to a rapidly mutating albatross for the next however-many-years.

A violently mutating albatross, perhaps.