No Seriously, Fuck TH White and Mallory

A tale of Arthur and Merlin on their latest reincarnation as avatars of Britain.  Only they're not sure what they're supposed to be averting this lifetime given that they're running a café in a seaside town in Cornwall.  Still, at least it can't be as weird as that time Arthur was a plumber.

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The Shadows Feel Like HomeThe Nano. In which the Pevensies trip, fall, and somehow end up in Torchwood. It's not Susan's fault she shot an alien that was trying to kill Jack Harkness ( Read more... )

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Yes, dear reader, I went jogging in the cold and wet this morning. It was vile and cold and muddy in the usual places. Only moreso. And had to dip feet in river on way back to get rid of most of the mud, so I audibly squelch all the way up to the lock. Thames very swollen, as in less than a foot below the bank edge. which admittedly isn't that ( Read more... )

nano is up to 37830 as of last night. Not bad, it's about 4k ahead. For comfort I'd prefer a bit further, but... decent. have three definite scenes ahead still to write. And the scene I wrote last night involved a minotaur chasing Edmund and his counterpart through caves under a city in Yugoslavia*. And yes, i checked about the geology of ( Read more... )

I have completely eliminated all traces of social life this november successfully aside from pubmeet (this weekend, required brain break and discussing with other writers) and my cousin's wedding on the 30th. :whines: I wanna see Skyfall but hauling self out've house during weekends for owt else aside from jogging - not good. I know me, I write ( Read more... )

last night, finally caught up on nanowrimo wordcount. so that's 13k in and still not started anything that looks like plot aside from 2 and a half main characters being recruited/introduced... I seriously have no idea whether I'm writing the dialogue in character for Susan at the mo. Lot less internal dialogue than the last nano, so hopefully ( Read more... )

I went to see Arthur Darvill, Lawrence Fox, Neville from Harry Potter and a bunch of other people in Our Boys a drama set in a military hospital ward for soldiers recovering from injury. Varied between the hysterical and nail bitingly-'augh'. Really good performances. Also, Amy, Rory and the Doctor *so* played 'Beerhunter' on the TARDIS ( Read more... )

at that stage of gathering together what research I need to do for nano. 'course, every bit of poking only unspools *more ( Read more... )

when I

• a) start going 'wahhhh, too much quality tv!'
• b) eye the theatre schedules piling up in the same nervous fashion
• c) find myself idly doodling plot bits for nano during meetings

a) Dr Who. merlin in a few weeks' time. All the quality serious miniseries they're suddenly inflicting on us. (accused, good cop, etc) And *then* the bastards ( Read more... )