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Er. I really haven't got a good explanation for this. Here are two storybits from the Evangeline thingummy (I'm still looking for a surname, by the by, and the furthest I've got is the realisation that it needs to be monosyllabic and probably ought to mean something interesting). I wrote the first one and sort of forgot about it, and then I tried ( Read more... )

Suddenly I am hit with an incredibly urgent desire to write a novel about a group of people with basically useless superpowers.

Because, come on, they can't be conveniently awesome all the time. Someone's got to get stuck with 'oh, look, I can lower prices with the blink of an eye!', or 'I CAN TALK TO GOLDFISH OMG ( Read more... )

You know you are losing your touch when:

You write approximately half of a fic you have been trying to write without any success for about a month. You go to bed, and by the next morning have no memory of having done this ( Read more... )

Heh. I have been reading old Xanga entries, because I have a weird obsession with my own past, and came across a review of a Coldplay concert on Austin City Limits, in which I wondered at Chris Martin's habit of writing about on his back on the stage as if he were suddenly undergoing a stroke. 'I think he's under the Imperius Curse', said I.

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I had a sudden, bizarre thought yesterday: it would be very interesting to write a graphic novel.

Someone else would have to do the pictures, of course, as drawing and I do not get along very well, despite many past efforts. Despite this, it sounds incredibly entertaining and fascinating. (Besides which, illustrations have always been my favourite ( Read more... )

So, I sang today. With my mother, n front of my entire church: or at least a third of it, as we are large enough to have three services. (But no, we are not a mega-church, thank God. Mega-churches worry me with their lack of intimacy. Time to do some planting, you lot! Come on!) I was nearly shaking afterwards, but it was an amazing experience, and ( Read more... )