Been reading rionaleonhart's post about writing strengths/weaknesses. It's quite fun to analyse your own stuff, trying to avoid the Dunning-Kruger effect. I am, overall, quite happy with my writing, though I feel I lack any kind of concrete style, so this is a fairly self-deprecating list (I'm arrogant enough to start out assuming I'm perfect, and so this is me ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to write post about why I like genre fiction. I much prefer it to, well, non-genre fiction. I'm not terribly fussy about what genre, either; scifi and fantasy, horror, romance etc. Genre fiction is, it's true, formulaic; you know roughly what's going to happen. This means, to write it well and keep it gripping, you have to be ( Read more... )

I am rediscovering reading. It's a little odd, really, since I used to be a nine novels a week person (god bless the local library). The degree rather put paid to that, and the internet hasn't helped at all. I'm finding it very hard to start reading anything; I just don't have the motivation. Once I have started, though, I'm devouring books. I feel ( Read more... )

My moods are a little elastic at the moment. It's not taking much to send me either way, and when I get absorbed in something, I'm getting really absorbed. With the new cross-stitch kit (so pretty!), all of YJ downloaded and some new doll's house toys I'm practically in my own world, only speaking when spoken to. It's not intentional, but with me ( Read more... )

It's Early. And Cold. And I work up at 4:30, and at most only dozed since. And I have no breakfast except a stale tea cake, which I shall ignore. And nothing to do, because I went online when I got home last night and caught up on lj so now I have an hour till I have to be at work and nothing fun to read ( Read more... )

Considering that this really hasn't been a good day at all, I was surprisingly perky throughout almost all of it. Let's face it, when a day starts off with ( Read more... )

Here's a random little thing from yesterday (yes, I'm spamming a bit, but my brain is frazzled ( Read more... )

I keep putting off updating with anything substantial because I feel too negative. I don't want to rant, because I'm worried I'll offend people when I don't mean to, and ranting is all I feel like using lj for.

( so, uh, no offense? )

Is exactly one month til my birthday ( Read more... )

Back from Surrey now. Was definitely an interesting trip. Pity I didn't get to see more of more people. I'll try and remedy that in the summer, but I won't be about too much then either. It's this whole working thing (which I'm doing again tomorrow, thanks to a phone call last night ( Read more... )