IT issues...

They're a symptom of modern living perhaps, but in this case the complete absence of internet and email at work has proved favourable to my fiction output. With nothing else to distract me – or indeed anything else to do at all – I've managed to churn out over 1,000 words on Truck Me and more than 700 on one of those short story ideas I mentioned, currently enjoying the working title of 'Other Intelligent Life'.

Speaking of IT issues, my laptop battery is officially Fire trUCKED – several tests have each shown a truncated lifespan of only 40 minutes (if I'm lucky). I'm beginning to wish I hadn't spent the better portion of my birthday money on junk food and DVDs...