Berna Hudson

@bernahudson.bsky.social

Writer of epic fantasy based in London, reader of anything I can get my hands on, and chaotic DnD player.

When writing’s in your soul, you write everywhere and on anything. I’ve got notes on my phone, files on my laptop, descriptions on post-it’s, character names on old envelopes, and voice notes with detailed scenes. I can’t help it! #booksky

We’ve been moved to room 444. Same green chair. I figure it’s where the baby demons hang out before they get old enough for room 666. Hospitals try to cure sick people and make non-sick ones slowly unwrangle. This is me unwrangling. Is that even a word?

So today was on the green chair. Every hospital has that green chair and I hate it so much. I talked to mum, talked to doctors, asked questions, and then asked some more. In between, I edited, I checked formatting, and I watched the monitors and hoped for the best. Sigh.

Drove back early from the Milford Critique Week. Very sad. Nightmare trip with M1 closed and torrential rain. I’m not superstitious BUT first a rainbow split in two by a long cloud. Then a double rainbow and THEN a huge moon alongside a rainbow. If that’s not auspicious then I don’t know what is?!

So far September is a mess. I was meant to have finished re-editing Shadow of the Hand and sent it back for a proofread. And checked the ebook novella for A Meeting of Minds and A Daughter’s Duty. I’ve done none of that. BUT I went to see my dad. That was good. And read a lot of good stuff. #booksky

Back at the airport. Will I get out or will I spend the morning typing away at random gates assigned and reassigned? I’m starting to feel like that Argentinian film of the 80s - Möbius Strip - where a tube train’s tracks shift into a Möbius strip and the passengers go round in an interminable loop!

In my eight-hour airport disaster yesterday, I had a good book. So life wasn’t that bad. And I edited book 3. And ranted. And ate chocolate. A g&t would have helped more, probably. But I’m still stuck and missed what I was going for. Sigh. #booksky

Got caught in the air traffic fiasco yesterday. Was lucky I had a home to get back to, but missed something important. The best laid plans… Trying to leave again tomorrow. May the gods of air traffic be merciful.

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So I’m home after visiting my parents. I purposely only took my laptop…to edit, and the ebook to read up on the submissions for a critique week I’m attending. I came back with seven new books. As if my TBR wasn’t TALL enough… #booksky