This year’s Nano is going to be a join venture by Andy and I. We’re going to be writing a High Fantasy piece called The Stone of Tides. It’s going to be epic, and Gothic, and China Miéville-’New Weird’-esqu. And that’s all I’m going to say about what it’s like, for the rest you’ll just have to read and see.

I’m not sure exactly how it’s going to work out with the actual writing side of things, but so far the planning has gone well – the world is mapped out, with most of it’s cultures and oddities, and the plot is down apart from exactly how the end will turn out. I will be mentioning Luke in the dedication, because it was his input that helped us focus on things and helped us draw all our disparate ideas together. He even added his own flavours to the ideas we already had that will hopefully make a delectable and devour-able novel.

So far I’m pleased with it, and I don’t think we should have any trouble with the month of November – we will be married and honeymooned by then, and our major ‘see mates’ outing will be taking place in October, to celebrate our being in our flat for a year.

So fingers crossed for a good Nano this year

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I just had the oddest thing happen to me. I was just making myself a cup of tea, when all of a sudden I had this… daydream/ vision thing. I was stood in my parent’s house, in the hallway, and there was all this stuff in front of me. “It’s amazing,” I said, to someone at the side of me, my brother I think. “I never knew they so much stuff.

And then I was back in reality, and I just started crying so hard, like I was grieving, and I couldn’t stop. So weird. I’ve never had anything like that happen to me before.

I think I’ll give them a ring in a moment…

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I can’t belive I didn’t know about this. Ages ago Terry Pratchett, of Discworld fame, announced he had Alzheimer’s. He gave a very moving speech about the whole thing, and donated half a million quid. Well today someone pointed me towards this site: Match it for Pratchett, the idea being that is half a million people donated a pound each, then it’s make it an even million.

Well I just went and added my five quid to the pile! And if you like this funny, funny man and his works, then go do the same!

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Inspired by a thread on Spacefem.com, I decided to take this pic:

In other news, I got a call this morning from one of my agencies saying they are submitting my info for two jobs that sound really cool. Not quite as much as at Mercom, but I don’t care.

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Yeah, so yesterday afternoon I went with the Sulivans and my Mum for a wee walkies around a place called Spetsbury. It was fun, and actually very warm. And I took piccytures, but I feel there is only one good enough to show you lot.

[This is my friend Kelly, being very photogenic]

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Went for a walk around Kingston Lacy [big house, big cool gardens] today, and took some bad pictures. I think I’m still having problems with my hands shaking or somthing cuz nearly all the pics came out blury. The one above isn’t too bad, but it’s still a bit dark. Meh.

I saw a blog today quoting, I belive, anon: ‘Write something worth reading, or live something worth writing’ and I realised what I load of crap I write in this blog. I don’t know why, but I don’t write about anything interesting in my life any more, I just write when I feel the need. I know there are some people out there who actually read what I write, and to those who read my mundane blahings: I’m sorry. This is my effort to give you something interesting to read

In a way, I’m hopeing this will make me want to buck up and get life together again.

We shall see

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