I looked back over my old entries and found the bit where I started writing Rexque Futurus, the story about Arthur, Merlin, the ancient Volvo. Apparently  in December 2015 I had already written 32,000 words, which is really odd because the last few chapters that I have been writing have come VERY slowly. But that time was when I was working on a ( Read more... )

and my two stories were:

Swan-feather Song

Tuor and Idril sailed away into the West, and were lost. But how did that happen, and what came next?

I really can't decide if I like this story or not.  It somehow feels like it's not as entertaining as it should be for the amount of effort I put into it.

Whereas the other one came much more easily, and ( Read more... )

The Tuor and Idril story is done, and after much prodding and poking, seems a decent shape.

The Tropical Yavanna story came together really quickly in the end.  It's a story that is half Vanyar and half Avari and *mostly* worldbuilding.

They will be live... when is it?  A week? Two? Something like that anyway.

I really want to finish Rexque ( Read more... )

This story was about Tuor & Idril.  I hadn't written them before, and I'm really not convinced I've done a good job.  The story seems over-long and rather unwieldy, and it has a kind of wobbly saggy bit which I am really not sure how to fix.

But it has a beginning, a middle and an end.

Perhaps I can revise and trim it a bit later.  The second ( Read more... )

I am trying to finish off my first Tolkien reverse summer bang story, which is about a slight AU Idril and Tuor.  I hadn't written Idril before (have written Tuor before, but he was a sealion skinchanger then, so arguably not very canon either!)

I like the idea, and I'm over the minimum word-count, but somehow the story hasn't quite taken wing.

I ( Read more... )

New dishwasher arrived and was installed and they took away the old one very efficiently, all masked and with the windows wide open for a healthy draught. This year has been all about the healthy draughts so far, the whole thing of 'keeping the heat in' has rather blown away ( Read more... )

I don't seem to be achieving much on the art or writing front at the moment.  I'm trying my best to finish off The Siege of Khazad-dûm, my Celebrimbor Lives AU, but although I know pretty well how it's going to end, actually getting words down in pixels is just awful.  Write three words, hate them, delete them awful. No flow at all. I know that if ( Read more... )

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Firstly, we are not in fact characters in a convoluted Victorian drama.  The authorities did on Monday disavow all knowledge of Mark's dad's body, but only for a short while and then it turned up, as did his will.  This was a great relief.  The stress has been declining since it peaked at that point ( Read more... )

I don't seem to have posted for ages. A month ago, we had just put our house up for sale : this Friday, the painters finished painting it, and today we have (I hope!) sold it. It does look good with the sun shining and the paint all new!


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