phooey.

The end of this book remains an aggravating hundred pages away. And it was supposed to be this cute little quick and easy 360 page thing which has now grown to 420 pages and probably isn’t quite done there. And the changes made so far mean adding a scene and setting a written one somewhere else and then probably revising another one to a chase scene or something. It all sounds like a lot of work. Sigh. I suspect it will overflow into November by a couple days to finish…

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yay wordpress preview!

I would just like to say I have love in my heart for the preview function on WordPress themes which allows me to rebuild a website in preview instead of live or with the bother of setting up a second instance to make sure it all works. Yay WordPress! (um, soapturtle, you want to upgrade my WP installations for me sometime…? O.O)

What I learned about writing comics

This weekend a fellow writer and friend emailed to say she’d gotten her first comic-writing contract, and did I have any thoughts/suggestions/advice/epiphanies, having written my own comic series. Indeed I did, and I’ve been vaguely meaning for ages to write those thoughts up, so she provided me with an opportunity to do so. So here’s what I learned about writing comics: * turning the page is often a sign of a scene change. Not always, but it’s a good rule of thumb, and if you’re *going* to change scenes, it’s…

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Imelda May

Earlier this year, or possibly late last year, Ted encountered a singer called Imelda May on the Late Late Show. She’s got a great image–a 50’s burlesque kind of look–and did a couple of terrific rockabilly numbers. We promptly went forth to try to find her album. So, it appeared, did everyone else in Ireland, because we ended up having to order it from Amazon, being utterly unable to locate it in any stores here. The album, “Love Tattoo”, is pretty fantastic, and we spent most of the past year…

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working hard

A handful of not-particularly-themed photos behind the cut…(really, I’m working hard, not procrastinating.)