Happy New Year! I feel I can more properly say that now because on Friday night, I took myself down to the Horizons coctail lounge overlooking the (highly smoke-affected) sunset and I finished Silent Harmony. I feel like, since beginning of NaNo, I've kinda had just EVERYTHING on hold in favour of finishing this thing, so now I have it really feels ( Read more... )

I'm 1500 words off of winning NaNo with Steel with a full Saturday still to play with, so I thought I'd take a bit of a break to... write about writing. YEP. I was going to go to the cricket this evening after work, but the weather is shit. It's cold and wet and there's no heating at the Oval. Despite that, it's day one of the Test and we've ( Read more... )

My New Year's Eve was significantly smaller than it has been in previous years--just me, Mum and Dad with copious cocktails and the Sydney fireworks on telly. Still, was a nice, quiet evening.

Earlier that day I also bought a tray of pratia from the local native plants nursery, then planted them all down the front end of the garden. The place is ( Read more... )

Okay, so, what in the high holy shit has LJ done to memories now? They don't appear to function. Previously it's been a list of keywords, click your keyword, and you get a list of entries in order of when they were added to the list of memories. Now though? I don't even know how this functions. Already you can see it's just posting the full entries ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I finished Gold! Book three of Silent Harmony is finally done! I am so, so very stoked. I love everything. I'm quite proud of how it all came together, after so many bombshells the characters dropped on me all through it. One book to go, and I have effectively zero ideas for it. Thiras will turn up somewhere, but that's all I've got. I ( Read more... )

It's amazing* how quickly writing happens when I have a solid plan and outline and when I know what's happening. Chapter in a week, woo! I have less of a chapter-by-chapter outline now and more of just a lump of plot points, arranged in such a way that would be nice if they happen that way. Now that I have a laptop with a battery that charges again ( Read more... )

I got a good chunk of plotting done, know what's happening with the main plot for the rest of the story, but all the side-plots, mostly in Wensleydale, are just... ugh. They all feel so disjointed and nothing's tying back together. I keep reminding myself that there's still another book, I don't have to tie all the loose ends up in this one, but it ( Read more... )

I did it I updated my portfolio! Some of the bugs are weird? The print galleries, for example, are off kilter by about 70 pixels. Unless you resize the window, and then it's instantly fine. I have no idea why and hence no idea how to fix it. But mostly, I've added new stuff I've designed in the two years since I created the thing, and it's now ( Read more... )

I have not been killing my desk bromeliad(s)! It turns out dying is just a thing they do after they've flowered. I mean, I'm sure the day of direct sunlight on a 40-degree day probably sped up the process on the last one, but I still could've saved it ( Read more... )

That moment when you get to a Pivotal Moment in the writing, and it's bed time.

You just know that, whether you write it or not, you're not getting to sleep for three hours.

Also Nimay's (as yet) irrational anger is making me angry. Damnit.