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Just a quick-post kinda day to maintain my streaks. Husband is currently watching Waterworld and it's not giving me a load of inspiration   |
"That's art - you write [a song] and it connects with me - it connects with one person, and that makes it all worth it." - That Bastard, Puccini *** I saw this small, quirky little play in London a few months ago and this quote stayed with me. (Also a possible misquote, as it's a new play so not something I can easily go back and check!) |
| I'm not a scientist, so when I read about things like Lagrange Point and Orbital Data Platform in my weavings around the Internet, they all sound deliciously sci-fi to me... And I realised I'm not the only one when I followed the links and ended up reading about the real Three-Body Problem! |
| I've just finished typing up part 3 (chapters 13-16) of The Endless WIP Novel (TM) and checked the wordcount. Almost exactly 10,000 words - oh, nice. Then I checked Part 1 (chapters 3-7). That's 25,000. Okay, quite a lot, but I'm sure I'll cut a lot out in the hard edit I'm doing at the moment. Oh, how long is the introduction (chapters 1-2)? Also 10,000 words. Hmm, that's... that may need some work. And finally... I had to check a detail in just one chapter of Part 2 (chapters 9-12, for those keeping track), and Chapter 12 is 10,600 words just by itself  !!! It is the denouement, but still!! I haven't even included part 4 (chapters 17-22), because they're still handwritten on paper, not typed up yet. I see a lot of judicious editing in my future. |
 Occasional series of extracts from my commonplace book There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no-one knows what they are. - W. Somerset Maugham |
Me, constantly, during the month of October: That's just me in the corner, giving you all a thumbs up for being spooky but resigning myself to being confused until November 1st  |
| Needs more eyeballs. |
ReplyOh no, almost lost my newsfeed streak... I didn't do any writing today. I sacrificed my writing hour for... gardening, so I could finish off the flowerbed I was working on over the weekend. I really hope the bulbs do actually come up in the spring  !! |
| I've been reading some interviews with theatre set designers, because one of my main characters works in his family's theatre. I like this quote from set designer Lawrence Moten about pursuing art in general: "“Are you happy doing what you're doing? Do you wake up happy doing what you do every day?” Great. Nothing else matters. Do that. If you're happy and you're able to pay your bills, that's the goal. Nothing else matters." |
| In the course of my wandering research through seventeenth-century London, I discovered that there once was a tavern underneath Westminster Hall (right at the heart of the Houses of Parliament) where the lawyers used to hang out during Parliamentary term time - and this tavern was called Hell. ...It sounds like a fun place to hang out  |
| For a historian, I'm not very good at historical research - I wasted an enjoyable hour or so trying to trace a man called Mr Squibb who may have been responsible for arranging the tiered seating at the trial of Charles I. An erudite commenter on Samuel Pepys online put it beautifully: THIS IS NOT THE SQUIBB YOU SEEK. |
| Spudy Specter👻 - I think my tone didn't come across - I was having fun in this particular rabbit-hole Thank you, though - your advice is much appreciated. |
| Today, I came across the word Adumbrate: "to foreshadow vaguely, or to suggest/outline partially, or to overshadow". This led to me to discovering the existence of a horrifying-sounding children's book by Mervyn Peake set in the Gormenghast "universe." If you're familiar with Peake's extremely intense gothic writing, you'll see why this is not likely to be a friendly or fun kid's book, but more like the kind that still gives you a shiver down your spine when you half-remember it forty years later...  |
Just caught up on Party Central and the new emoticons for Day 7. Is it just me, or are things getting... steamy...     |
| I'm spending a lot of time on buses and trains this weekend visiting my friend who's in hospital in Cornwall. No surprise, then, that when I start writing a scene from my Time Travel Novel (TM) (untitled, and not even started!), the protagonist is sitting on a bus! Sometimes the influences are just a straight line |
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