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Graaaah!
Sometimes, I seriously wonder why I bother writing anything down, if the intended recipient is going to pretend it was never written at all. Literacy might as well not exist any more, it seems. -
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Off to Tassie for Christmas and New Year.
Verdi is going to be alone for a little while until ironicshell and friend turn up on Boxing Day to feed and water him, and then Kelly arrives to stay on the 27th.
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Article for SCOR, Opus 4 Nº 1
Not quite so old as the last post; again under the cut. I would have submitted it to Erato, if there were any hope of it being published again in the near future: so instead, here it is. Contact your local AICSA choir to look at the full ROCS newsletter (“What's the SCOR?”), which should have been mailed to your society's address sometime recently ( Read more... ) -
For everyone performing Handel’s Messiah at this time of year
Greetings! HA HA HA HA HA!
Here’s a “golden-oldie” from the depths of time, underneath the lj-cut. Originally written for the RMPS “members-only” website, this is its first outing in public.
( RMPS Sesquicentennial Rant, 12 April 2002 ) -
93,118/50,000 (~186%)
My little plan to hit 100,000 words was derailed by needing to sleep on the night of the 29th; at that stage I had reached 86,000, and I really needed to be closer to 91,000. I wrote about 7,000 words on the last day, but there was no way I was going to be able to write 14,000. I had given up on the idea of a sprint to the end by about 8 pm, and ( Read more... ) -
50,171/50,000 (~100%)
Except the word validator on the website subtracts 300 words compared to the word count in TextWrangler ( Read more... ) -
Same as yesterday (so far)
Not feeling terribly inspired today, but will press on regardless... Maybe I'll go and write the "bloodbath" chapter. -
~34,000/50,000 (~68%)
And I'm writing on two different fronts, having realised after writing a page or two of dialogue that it can't have happened yet. So that will have to go into a chapter entitled "LATER"... -
~31,000/50,000 (~62%)
... and my main character just lost his bollocks... -
~28,000/50,000 (~56%)
Slow day.