46k. Yeah, I've slowed RIGHT down. Partly, I'm ashamed to say, because I want the NaNo badge for updating every day for 30 days and I don't want to write more than 50k. There, I've said it. After all my 'badges don't matter' talk, apparently they do. Next time I do NaNo, I'm going to set myself a personal challenge of 60k. *pokes tongue at self ( Read more... )

Well, with three scheduled slots for novel writing, I don't have time for much else I suppose. I'm hoping to top 30k later today, which puts me a ridiculously long way ahead of the curve, not only for the schedule suggested by NaNo but also my own of 2k per day. But whilst the words are flowing, I need to be at my keyboard to capture them ( Read more... )

So, in my (almost) 16 years at LJMU I've now had 11 line managers, 6 job titles (but have really only done 4 distinct roles across 4 different departments), and 12 (soon to be 13) desks. Yeah ( Read more... )

So, in general I'm an introvert's introvert. I like my own company, I believe I do my best work on my own, there's a reason I wear my headphones all day. When I do interact with other people, I like it to be one-to-one. BUT yesterday, I spent some time with my new colleagues and it felt good to be just chatting with a group. We humans are social ( Read more... )

My 'morning writing time' has been taken up with a 'Horror Haiku' challenge this week. More here. I'm not sure what I produced really counts as horror but it features a vampire, so I'm going to send it in. Watch this space ( Read more... )

It's finally happened. I have a workmate that I can talk about Final Fantasy with! I even got to say the immortal line, 'Final Fantasy 8 has plot holes you could ride a chocobo through' and be understood ( Read more... )

I have made SO MUCH progress with my Nano 16 novel and it isn't even written yet! I've gone from a random collection of crimes to a single investigation that keeps getting interrupted by other stuff (some of which is actually helpful!), and I have a title - 'Death of an Ice Cream Seller'. I still have some mini character profiles to do and I need ( Read more... )