Two hours of writing fiction leaves this particular writer absolutely drained. For those two hours he has been miles away, he has been somewhere else, in a different place with totally different people, and the effort of swimming back into normal surroundings is very great. It is almost a shock. The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He ( Read more... )

And here I am, still alive, still in the world. It's my intention to carry on being alive in the world, well, until I die. At Easter, I'll go to Glasgow and see what science fiction fandom is like. Next June I'll take my exams and pass them and have qualifications. Then I'll do A Levels, as it best works out. I'll go to university. I'll live, and ( Read more... )

Princess of the Midnight Ball - Jessica Day George ( Read more... )

Snagged from technoinfidel...

( Mm, books. )

"Is this all you do, then?" said Apollo. "Lie in bed?"
"And watch television."
"I'm on television," said Apollo.
"You are?" said Zeus. "Have you ever been on Doctor Who?"
"No," said Apollo.
"Oh," said Zeus. "I like Doctor Who. He's a god too ( Read more... )

( In which I ramble about fiction... )

My library card is still blocked, despite having returned two whole bags of books. GAH. I have just realized that I have not had any new books from the library for almost a month now...and I think I may go mad from that realization. Quite possibly. Currently rereading Phantom, and a new(ish) Robin Hood book by Charles Gilson. (It's new because I've ( Read more... )

I was rereading this, and decided to post it in case any of you Who lot missed it the first time.:)

( The Nature of the Infection... )