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Something beginning with B
Continuing the 'read new authors' attempt ( Read more... ) -
Something beginning with A
In aid of stretching myself to read different books I've decided to work my way through library shelves, picking one author I haven't read before from SF/Fan and one from the rest of fiction for each letter of the alphabet ( Read more... ) -
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I am getting my very first ever laptop tomorrow :) (just a bit excited here ( Read more... ) -
still here, journal kind of update :P (or: my day, exercise and being helpful)
We cut because we care?
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still alive
Still alive and the cat is starting to venture out from under the bed more. Might even start flushing toilet soon (I'm holding off on that as last time we were told it was ok by the council people the civil defense was still saying absolutely not, so I'm being cautious, meanwhile still using rubbish bag, kitty litter and digging into garden or ( Read more... ) -
Alive but shaken
Very shaken up but not actually damaged by the latest big earthquake/aftershock. Had an hour long walk home in very surreal 'zombie apocalyspe movie' sort of silted streets ( Read more... ) -
NaNo prep / fic from prompt
It's a dark little snippet but for me is a useful background piece for my (less than a day old) story plans for NaNo this year.
The prompt was:
It was a dark and stormy night.
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um, I aint'd dead? aka an update, honest
Ok, ok, so I should really do an update. Even more I should really start reading stuff over here again :P. Got out of the habit of it, bad me ( Read more... ) -
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Shock horror I've actually done some writing :). Working on an old (incomplete) novel and got 1800 words done, and more to the point have made progress by doing so. Maybe I'll finally have a novel to submit to Torquere... well sometime, eventually, anyway :P At which point there will be the agonised waiting to hear back. Hmm... ok, seeing the ( Read more... ) -
update
Swelling is going down, bruises are coming up. Went to physio yesterday and now I know how much of the pain is stiffness and how much is still damaged. (still too much of the second but far too much of the first) So now I have exercises to do, a new tubular compression bandage (which is actually more comfortable than what I was doing with the ( Read more... )