godiyeva had a quilt to bind today, and I had bookmarks to sew, and we each had a child to mind today, so it would be asking for it to try and do something really productive like work on our Nano novels (though Raeli spent the morning in the sand pit and Felix slept beautifully all morning) so we holed up for a serious cultural experience while we sewed ( Read more... )

Good writers take feedback and deal with editing notes professionally. You just do. It's not even something I think about - I just know that I will implement maybe 90-95% of the editorial notes given to me, only digging my heels in when I REALLY know I'm right, or the change is something that will annoy me at a fundamental level ( Read more... )

So this was my day ( Read more... )

All behind an LJ cut to preserve you all from Overwhelming spoilers for the film, and also the books up to Half-Blood Prince.
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Excellent visit to the folks-in-law in Devonport this weekend.

aifin and I got out of the house on our own together *twice ( Read more... )

I want to vote in the ABC What's Your Favourite Film poll. But it's hard! I'm down to 5. All of which I watched for the first time as a child/teenager. I can't bring myself to count anything more recent than 15 years ago ( Read more... )

We watched the movie (as opposed to the tv series) M*A*S*H last night. One of those impulses I've succumbed to since subscribing to Bigpond movies (no more standing aimlessly in Video City for hours ( Read more... )