The happier stuff in life, then.

Last Saturday I (aided by Virgin trains, whose fancy trains apparently can still induce motion sickness that stops you from ultimately finishing your latest chapter when you're SO CLOSE) got myself down to London again. It's been too long and I'm actually going to miss the place now. Even Orpington, I'm going to miss ( Read more... )

• 15:53 How have I managed to write TWO similar characters called Ben? By not paying attention, obv. But can I get away with such dramatic irony? #

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• 19:20 Hopelessly stuck on Chapter 3. It drags tediously on yet I can't leave it be, or even add some sex, and therefore am in writers purgatory. #

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It's the 3rd of January already? Whoa, slow down 2009, there's plenty of time!

What have I been up to? Well, firstly I welcomed in the new year with my accomplice, Pinot Grigio. This, um, may have involved leaning out of the window telling 2008 in no uncertain terms where to go. This also may have involved the F word, and my apologies to the ( Read more... )

Becky.
Stop finding Aled Jones cute. You're frightening me.
Plzkthnxbai,
Self.

Well, it's Christmas Eve and I'm already feeling tense with regards to the family situation.
Not quite to the epic extent as last year, which is an achievement given that BARELY ANYTHING has changed. Mm. I'll forgive my mother being a bit distracted at this time of year, but ( Read more... )

Wow, my first public entry for a month. Yikes.  I'm back North, for those who haven't friended me. You haven't missed anything....

Hope y'all had a happy Halloween (or, indeed, Hallowe'en ). And if you didn't, well, my apologies. Ours was rather dull. We had a big bowl of treats and only two trick or treat calls, LOL. When you're prepared, they don' ( Read more... )

I've just had cystitis followed by the usual women's problems. Fuuuuun. You were burning to know that, weren't you? Not as much as I was. Really, though, I'm physically rubbish right now. Oh well. It's weeks like this where being unemployed has some bright side. That and working on my novel. Except that I'm still working on chapter one. I know. ( Read more... )

MAYBELLINE I HATE YOU. You watch me spend years looking for a halfway decent foundation that actually matches my deathly pallor before I find you, then wait 8 years before DISCONTINUING IT, YOU LIPSTICKED BASTARDS. GAH ( Read more... )

LOL, I've gone a bit quiet there, haven't I? Been very busy. A combination of:

1) Job hunting (NOTE: STILL DON'T HAVE ONE)
2) Wriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiting. Actual writing. Actual creative work going on.
3) Working on a certain fansite that's been down for some time now.  Link very soon.

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Whoa, personal life-imitating-art moment of the week. BBC7 (<33333) have been repeating Dial M For Pizza, and I was there listening to it last night when up crops a sketch set on a train. Robert Bathurst comes over with refreshments.

It goes thus: Tea or coffee?

Now, given that I was stood there for five minutes with the man himself in real life ( ( Read more... )