14457 words so far
That's more than 2000 a day on average so that's good. 
Have ended up writing a lot of it with pen and paper, as I definitely seem to write better that way, though that's annoying because I then have to type the damned thing up.  And I have to keep on top of that, otherwise I'll hit the end of the month and have pages and pages to ( Read more... )

When I was really little, I managed to traumatise myself reading a scary story. 
The story was meant to be scary - it was called The Mummy - but it was abridged into children's format by Ladybird books (under their Horror Classics series).  So surely pretty innocuous, right?  Well not to 7 year old wiffly_shwoo apparently. 
I did make desultory attempts to ( Read more... )

NaNoWriMo = >4000 words!
So here's the back-story behind my novel. 
fatkraken and I both grew up with the Narnia books as a standard fixture in our respective homes.  And the Narnia books are all over-saturated and cheery and neat and tidy (except for the Last Battle where CS Lewis goes a bit apocalyptic and dark, but I loved it nonetheless until he lost the ( Read more... )

Spent the weekend playing Call of Cthulhu with Griff, Matt, Ceri, Adrian and Rich.

About 10 minutes after creating the character, I realised he'd be a sanity-loss magnet, as he had a working knowledge of three old languages - Latin, old Hebrew and Aramaic.  Oops.  But he is a biblical scholar, so it can't be helped.  The party had an eventful time ( Read more... )

Hammerhydra headed off for Griff's stag party, leaving me on my own.  (Well, apart from all the other people I saw). 
I went out for dinner with kiebeau 's family on Friday, as they were staying in Caernarfon. 
On Saturday I went back to Caernarfon as d20yfx wanted to go abd see the castle.  We met up with greenandkeen and had lunch, then explored the castle.  The ( Read more... )

I was waiting for hammerhydra* and to kill time I went into a random charity shop. 
There I acquired a large wooden jewellery box with lots of drawers.  The finish is a bit battered, so I may indulge my spray-painting obsession to brighten it up.  Not sure whether I'll actually use it for jewellery - it struck me as just the right size for IC cash.  In fact, ( Read more... )

Hey microgirl -

I finally got Fever Crumb and read it in less than 24 hours.  It rocks.  Go read it.

(Still unable to *buy* a copy.  The one from Play went straight from 'order taken' to 'out of stock' to 'pre-ordered'.  They claimed to have delivery problems, but now suddenly the release date got ret-conned to May - weeks after it had been released.  In ( Read more... )

Have just ordered four new young adult books off the interwebs. 

• Lord Sunday - Garth Nix (have been waiting for the series to finish for ages)
• Fever Crumb - Philip Reeve (have been waiting for ages for the paperback, otherwise it's a different size from the other books of his I have.)

And there it would have ended if I hadn't accidentally discovered ( Read more... )

(Not a meme because I thought of it all by myself)

If you could discover a previously  unknown work by any author, who would it be? 
You don't get any financial advantage from selling it or anything, just the enjoyment of reading it. 
You don't get any control over the content,  so if you pick C S Lewis you could get science fiction, or you could ( Read more... )

While browsing WH Smith online, they tried to sell me 'The Time Machine' by H G Wells and William Gibson.  WTF?  I went and looked at the book, and it just seems to be a Penguin Classics edition, with similar blurb to the copy I have sitting on the shelf next to me.   Where does William Gibson fit in?  Did he travel back in time to co-author it or ( Read more... )