44867 / 50000just under 90%. Oh yes. I rule. Final act, closing in... Though, er, I'm still poking my brain to write the damn shipwreck bits ( Read more... )

18419 / 50000Okay, it's kinda on target of 2k a day, but really wishing I was writing more to get me well away from any writers' block days ( Read more... )

9198 / 50000Didn't do too well last night. I was supposed to be starting the sex scene (word-count guzzler! idiocy!) but kept prevaricating and bulking out other bits instead. 1,000 words short of target, and just before falling asleep last night, started having the 'argh, I don't have enough plot to do the full 50k' wibbles. Morning, I gave ( Read more... )

have sniffles. this seems to mostly result in scratchy throat and my ears not popping post blowing nose. gah ( Read more... )

Reading Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. Partly in a challenge to self to see if I can make it through a classic C19th novel that I love and adore the adaptation of. (Dickens, I can't get past the first page without chucking it across the room in exasperation with his sodding bogged-down prose. Austen, I never seem to get past the first page ( Read more... )

My god. I've never been so bored ( Read more... )

The medals table keeps freaking me out. (aside from GB being third. Third. How the fuck is this possible? Sitting down sports and long-distance swimming, we salute thee) '...Kazakhstan are *where*?' and then you click and it turns out they specialise in certain things so even if they don't necessarily get golds, they always place. Kazakhstan ( Read more... )

Okies, I need volunteers.

Oi Yanks No needs *you*, Welsh people. And Wales-dwellers who aren't necessarily native to the country will do nicely, too ( Read more... )

...augh. Was poking through the New Years' Resolutions on yuletide, saw the Billy Elliot story by sathinks and went 'oooo'. Read. it's not bad, it's just... So many details wrong. Maybe not that many and most wouldn't notice them, but just... they kept bopping me over the head. Like Michael not being used to crowds. Er, Newcastle? Durham? Not to ( Read more... )

I have bugger all idea what I'm doing tonight. Unless something comes up, suspect it will be very little. Possibly involving Monty Python Life of Brian thingy on tv ( Read more... )