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charlycrash and I I'm bored with things not working and people not sending me necessary stuff yet.FIRST: If you've been tagged, you must write your answers in your own LJ and replace any question that you dislike with a new, original question.
SECOND: Tag eight sexy people. Don't refuse to do that like a pansy. Unless you really don't want to of course. And if you're not tagged and you want to do it, then do!
Who sleeps in bed next to you?
Books, because books, and also there are unopened letters on the foot end that I leave there to try to make myself open and file them.
What did you last eat?
Houmous, sugar snap peas and baby sweetcorn.
What kind of books do you read?
Fant and sci fi and the occasional non-fiction for research.
What are you reading at the moment?
At the moment I am WRITING. Next up to be read are the Taken books by Alan Dean Foster: 1 2 3
If you could be anywhere right now, where would it be?
Asleep in bed, and if we can get really grabby, I'd like the underblanket straightened, because I keep fixing it and it keeps rucking up.
What's really creepy?
Infantilism has really got my goat recently. Also, sex in general. I think it's backlash from writing Alluring Swiper the ninja, who is pretty much my polar opposite.
Name one odd item within five feet of you.
I don't even know what's odd any more. Some jigsaw pieces decorate my monitor stand. I picked them up from a railway level crossing because I was so amused to see jigsaw pieces there. Otherwise, a red Songs of Praise vacuum mug with the legend carefully scratched off and a dog's head drawn on in its place in permanent marker.
What's your current fandom / obsession / addiction?
Writing Sankmarray. We're at the difficult, "wanting to sleep a lot" midway stage. I recognise this from last time.
What did you really want to do today that you didn't?
Be on time for work and sleep more. There's a little mutual exclusivity there, as you can see, which resulted in my not getting to do either.
What's your ideal mode of transport?
A Saunders-Roe Princess with a BMW Z3 and a dragon in the hold and POWER METULL on the stereo.
What was the last thing you bought?
Apart from the aforementioned food, that would be Xmas presents and getting keys cut.
If you could have any pet, what would it be?
My dogs, more dogs, a pure black Rottweiler/German Shep cross, some red pandas, a white German Shep with FLUFFY EARS like the one at the market yesterday, a pangolin or five, an octopus, a tortoise (possibly robot), a Saluki/English Mastiff cross, a Golden Retriever/St Bernard cross like Bilko, a Spitz (not fussy as to what breed), and a lot of robots.
What do you want right this minute, off the top of your head?
"To be rid of this headache" seems a waste, but I really don't WANT things much. "To have written more Sankmarray", except then I'd miss out on the sniggers I get while writing it, so...
Which of your friends most deserves to win the lottery, and would it change them?
(I have no answer to this question, I'm just replacing the other boring one.)
Have any of your life goals changed?
Having one would be a change, and I sort of acquired a "wouldn't it be nice" (which is pretty committal for me): namely, get something published before I'm 30.
Are there any bits of childhood that you miss?
In my case this'd be better phrased as "Are there any bits of childhood that you remember?" I don't think I miss much of it. The divorce was weird and is still around in my psyche, but I wouldn't want to go back to having a two-parent family. I went on a few cool holidays that I distantly remember. I'd like to do Disney World again.
My dogs were not "bits of my childhood", they were family members who happened to be there for most of it, but I miss them a lot.
Rename the days of the week.
Natday, Infday, Chiday, Youday, Adday, Matuday, Olday
Say something to the person who tagged you.
Your kitteh is stink and it stink teh whole wurld lol lol pwnt
I'm a pansy and proud of it, so it is incumbent upon me to refuse to tag anyone. Also, while I like you all, you're not sexy, not like a Z3.
Yay, necessary stuff has arrived! Now back to work.
charlycrash's journal and he's posted an update saying that his cat is still missing and he's worried about her.Geez, dreams are so surreal.
harper_knight send me more ninja-piratey goodness!
hellmutt Haha, will do... when Part 2 is complete. [There's] Even more worldbuilding in there.
harper_knight your audience clamours for more!
harper_knight *clamour clamour clamour*
hellmutt Clamour!
hellmutt That is our secret word of the day!
harper_knight it is a VERY good word isn't it?
hellmutt So is claymore.
harper_knight ooooh...
(If someone's attracted to their pirate rival, is that Yo Ho Yay?)
THIS IS LIES
ey do knott sitt at ENNYWON's FEETE and espechialli nott HERMUNNNS!
ITT WOZ FOTO SHOPD
thatt iz aul
As of tonight, I've finished rewriting the short story I wrote last year, which is forming Part One of Sankmarray-the-Novel. Yep, the cheaty part is over. We're now in uncharted waters.
And to prevent myself from being show-stoppingly nervous about continuing to write in said uncharted waters, I made sure to write the first bit of Part Two before I stopped.
I'm now at 11,938 words. *writerly glow*
I'm aiming for roughly 2000 words a day, i.e. a 60k word book (because I hate messy numbers like 1667, and anyway Mews turned out at just over 60k, so there).
By that projected total and my current word count, I should be a fifth of the way through the story now. Since I've only just reached the end of Part One, and I don't know how long the other parts will turn out (or even how I'll end up dividing the rest of the plot outline into sections yet), I have no idea if this is accurate. It feels awfully odd that my 'short' story, with a lot of crap taken out and only a couple of thousand words added overall, is technically a fifth of a novel. But, well, to be honest, I suspect this is going to be a rather long book.
The first of two books, I remind myself...
I'll shortly be contacting the people who offered to alpha read and probably have no idea what they're letting themselves in for (er, well, Anke and Vespers probably do, so they really do have no excuse whatsoever). For the rest of you, there's a second excerpt up now at my NaNoWriMo profile. This one shows a little more of the worldbuilding, and a tiny bit of Roseeye, the piratical first mate, of whom I'm rather fond.
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Let me warn you now that I may not keep up with friends' blogs, Twitter etc this month. If you need me for anything and aren't sure I've noticed, drop me an email or wave.
First day of writing went OK...ish. I'm not sure. To begin with I'm rewriting a short story I wrote last year, which is forming the opening stages of the book. This is difficult (because details have changed and the nuances of the characters likewise), but also ought to be easier than staring at a blank page. What I'd really like is to burn through this part and get into uncharted waters.
Excerpts may be posted up, or there may be some kind of closed alpha reader scheme. I haven't decided how I'm going to work this yet.
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So, it's official: I'm doing NaNo this year (my profile), and it happens I have next week booked off from work (having had a lot of leave days to use up) to get a good head start.
My outline is shaping up but there are huge blank areas, and I'm no good at changing plots on the fly; in order to write easily, I have to have a rough outline nailed down. By tomorrow night. This is where you can help – and all you have to do is fill in the blank:
Well, Herm, knowing that you're going to write a very silly novel about pirates and ninjas (and dinosaurs and robots), I would be very disappointed if _____________ doesn't happen at some point!
When I finalise the outline, I'll make an honest attempt at working in all of your ideas that don't clash with what I've already decided. If they don't fit in the first book of the duology, they still might get into the second (particularly if they're ideas related to the dinosaur-men and the robots).
This is your chance to weasel your silly ideas into the Sankmarray Duology! You'll be doing us all a favour: me, by helping with the plot and giving me a challenge, and yourself and the rest of the world, by making it more fun to read.
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I've just caught a half-hour meeting (off the clock, of course, because I'm working a bit later this afternoon before Magers meeting) with a work friend to bounce some ideas off her for Sankmarray, my NaNoWriMo brainfoetus.
I think that went well. Ex...cept that she's persuaded me that what I have here is TWO books, not one.
She's right, I can see she's right, and at a stroke she's taken it from one not-really-ready book to one ready book and one not-ready book, but... two books is two-thirds of a TRILOGY, and... that makes you a real writer, and...
Wait a minute! That sneaky coworker! She just wants more books!!!
She also likes Taupeshank very much from my brief sketch of pim (both literal and verbal). This is good.
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(my notes, ignore unless interested - jotting down what I was thinking about on the walk home)
- Dimorphic male & female
Fish-evolvedHermit crab! evolved with ability to discharge electric shock from some body parts on contact- Power armour worn for several practical purposes
- Some atheist, the rest pagan-polytheist (probably something akin to Sky-Woman and Sea-Man)
- Can move without armour and frequently remove it, are NOT vestigial Dalekky things
ALSO TO FIND OUT
- shark blood
- Acanthostega etc breathing
First sketch of Sankmarray ninja and pirate (crewpir, not king)
I'm not happy with the pirate — pe needs to be a bit more doggy as well as chimpy — and I still have no idea about head hair growth on either of 'em. Luckily you can't see the ninja's hair anyway, thanks to ner headscarf.
Petpet Park load test = slashdotted. There's a surprise...
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Today's Thing That Has No Right Not To Exist Any More is the Saro Princess.
The Saunders-Roe Princess was a British flying boat aircraft built by Saunders-Roe, based in Cowes on the Isle of Wight. The Princess was one of the largest aircraft in existence.
(from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
This is the Saro Princess prototype. Here it is on its test flight. Here it is again in some more newsreel clips.
Three of these things were built. Only one flew, a series of test flights. They were overshadowed by the rise of jet aircraft and general falling out of fashion of seaplanes. Though they weren't used as passenger aircraft there was talk of using them to carry troops. This wasn't to be, and all three were broken up for scrap in 1967.
I am asexual and I don't much like vehicles. I would, however, hit that with the force of a drunken polar bear on skis. It is absoballylutely beautiful. Look at her!
Brought to you by the idiot who is writing flying pirates. Taupeshank's boat, the FPS Errant Buoy? Oh yes. Replace the cruise liner with galleon and you've got it.
(I know someone's about to mention the Spruce Goose. That tub couldn't flaming well fly and I'll have none of it. :P)
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Here's the thing I've been waffling on about. It's the first in what is threatening to be a series. Still rough, but it may be as polished as it gets for now.
You'll quickly see why I was shy about showing it. It is very silly.
Gentle feedback is welcomed, the more specific the better. If more of this appeared, would you want to read?
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