I started writing Rexque Futurus, my vaguely BBC Merlin Arthurian story inspired by sally-maria's LJ post,  in 2015, and now at last it is DONE.

Chapter 15 : Beyond Destiny is the last chapter, in which we discover the world is changed forever, learn what the Future King does once the Darkest Hour is done, inform the bees of our progress, and ( Read more... )

I've recovered from the vaccination (ow! ow! and also BLURGH), and got on with writing. Have finally got to the main confrontation in my King Arthur, Merlin and the Volvo story (AT LAST).  I was rather hoping this would be the last chapter, but not quite.  The last chapter is really more of an afterword, but the story would end very abruptly ( Read more... )

I looked back over my old entries and found the bit where I started writing Rexque Futurus, the story about Arthur, Merlin, the ancient Volvo. Apparently  in December 2015 I had already written 32,000 words, which is really odd because the last few chapters that I have been writing have come VERY slowly. But that time was when I was working on a ( Read more... )

Writing with all the speed of a particularly inagile two-toed sloth, I have written another chapter of Rexque Futurus!

It's here, should anyone want it. It contains meetings, tea, a certain amount of constitutional law, a dragon and destiny. Also this is the chapter where Vernon Bogdanor works out how to incorporate Arthur Pendragon into the ( Read more... )

For an astonishingly long time I have been writing this post-BBC Merlin modern day Arthurian story, inspired bysally_maria 's disappointment at the final episode of Merlin ending with Arthur dying before he ever really got to be satisfyingly a proper king and have adventures with Merlin. This spring I got thesmallhobbit to kindly beta-read as far as I had got, and then I ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

I don't know if there's anyone interested still here, but in case there is the collection is open!

My gift had lots of weird Mithraism in it, which was very cool!  A Strayed Cow.

I wrote High Days of Heroes, about Gault and Levin ( Read more... )

An old friend is on holiday in Cornwall, so we agreed to meet up and wander around Tintagel ( Read more... )

I don't seem to have posted anything about writing, for a while.  This is not because I haven't been writing, but because I seem to have ended up writing something that by my standards is a bit long, and since I am a rather slow and terribly indecisive writer when it comes to fiction, it's taking me ages ( Read more... )

When thinking about England*'s Hour of Greatest Need, I started considering previous Hours of Apparently Insufficient Need.  It must be admitted though, that my knowledge of anything that happened during the period between about 1485 and 1900 is pretty appalling, so I thought I'd ask for suggestions ( Read more... )