Welcome to the blog of Mary Brock Jones, SF author.

I also have a website, here


I write science fiction. Some dark, some not so dark. Some short, some longer, some very long. Some have a happy ending, others definitely not.

I also write NZ historical romance novels.They always end happily, even if the journey can get quite bumpy.

It's a nice mix.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Final assignment

I've just finished my last assignment for the extramural paper I've been doing this last 6 months. A big relief. Now I can get back to my own writing again. It's always a major balancing thing. The uni papers help my writing by improving my craft skills - I'm doing a Grad Dip A in English - but they take away my writing time. So what's best  - to do more of the writing I want to do, or extend myself by trying out new ways of writing? I think it's a bit of both.

But right now I have one book (Hathe) I'm editing down to two separate books, another (Gorge Creek) completed first draft waiting for editing, and a third (working title- Planet Wars) with the first couple of chapters only written, waiting for me to find out what happens next. It's definitely time to get back to my own writing, I think.