I had such high hopes for that month. Yet January zipped by like some kind of greased-up orangutan. Given that I came out of January 2006 with the first draft of my Panik script, my lack of achievement in January 2007 has disappointed me. Still, on a personal level I stayed off the booze and went some way to losing  few of those inevitable Christmas pounds.

Fiction-wise, January was almost entirely taken up by writing a short story. Yep, a short story. You can tell, then, that my mind wasn't exactly on writing fiction. Still, I loved writing it and I think it turned out rather well, although there's pending feedback from the editor. The story in question is a Bernice Summerfield tale, for a forthcoming short story anthology entitled Missing Adventures. It's due for release through Big Finish in October 2007. Nice to get my first Big Finish commission: hopefully it will lead to other things for the company, as they also handle various audio adventures: Doctor Who and what-not...

A week or so ago, I interviewed Jodie Marsh for heat magazine, which was good fun. While not the warmest interviewee, she makes up for that with sheer entertainment value, slagging off all and sundry. Always a pleasure for the quote-hungry journalist.

Today, I had two really promising script ideas, both of which I want to write. Irritatingly, they're both based around current prevailing culture, so I need to write them fast. Then again, that's good motivation. One of the ideas is an update on a notion that's been bouncing around my head for months now, but never made it beyond outline form. I'm going to write that one first, I think: wrote the entire outline today and really fancy diving into it.

I also have a ton of writing to complete for Doctor Who Magazine - writing up all the set-visits and things I did for them last year. Needless to say, this rarely feels like work, as I love it so. Just as well, as it'll be deadline after deadline in weeks and months to come...

Time to roll up those writing sleeves...