I have just received the following email from , who was proofing THE QUEEN’S BASTARD for me: TBQ I’m not worthy…..I’m not worthy I’m gobsmacked. Yay! *\o/*
oh, wow, hot *damn*
Thanks to my very clever husband and my very clever friend , I have just come up with something *brilliant* for the end of this book. I don’t even know if I’ll get to *use* all of this (oh yes I will because it makes such good doom) but *damn* that’s sexy. *Damn* that’s sexy!
Great!
I left the house today to work at a cafe in pen and paper. Transcription has netted me around 2K words (far more than I wrote) with another couple pages still to transcribe. I may do this again tomorrow. I was not, for the record, asking about whether people would follow the blog because I anticipate some kind of hideous, horrible thing happening because LJ has been bought. I don’t imagine much will change at all, and can at least wish that if things do change they will perhaps change…
Yes
Looks like Livejournal is being sold. I’ll be interested to watch how this develops, because the solitary reason I use LJ is because despite its flaws (and there are many), is that it’s one-stop-shopping for comments. I used to use Moveable Type on my own website (and *God* how I miss the ability to, you know, design my own look & feel), but I was collecting 1. a lot of comment spam, and 2. comments in 3 different locations, not all of which were emailed to me. At the risk…
spade & fark
I got back to the place I was before I stopped to go back and fix things. I’ve only lost five pages this time (which is a huge improvement: most of the other times I’ve done this on this book–and this, for those of you counting, is draft #6–I’ve lost between forty and a hundred pages). I am trusting (mostly Ted) that I’m on the right path (because the alternative is unthinkable). When I said this to Ted, he said, “Are you stuck?” No; I haven’t gotten as far as…