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Update of mundane things. :)
Jul. 11th, 2011 07:55 pmPhew, been nearly a month since posting here. I keep meaning to be more regular and then I'm not...anyway, on with it!
Today felt oddly productive, even though thus far I have written nothing. I finished off three books, two that had been sitting on my Kindle for Mac for ages and then mowed my way through V for Vendetta - as I was telling my housemate, I can understand why Allan Moore didn't like the film. I always thought the film was ok, but there was something...politically naive about it. Not the case with the graphic novel, and I much preferred the story arc with V and Evey in this, rather than the 'insert a romance!' thing that the film had going.
One of the books was The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and I'll say this, the stories were fun, but I also really enjoyed the writing itself. Lines the this:
"As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat."
Are just lovely to behold.
The other book was by M. Christian, and was called 'How to Write and Sell Erotica.' Quite a useful book, though when I got to the parts about the industry and all you need to do apart from write I got a little...panicky. Sigh. Suspect that was maybe partly why I stalled writing today...though I like to think it was also the fabulous weather and it seemed a good idea to go and sit in the garden too! Feeling much better now though.
I also managed a bunch of cleaning. The cupboard under the stairs, alas, house no boy wizard, but instead a patch of mold that's crept out to the carpet, and there is a dead mouse in there somewhere...which I didn't find. That's a Friday job. The bottom of the fridge has also been scrubbed and my hair vacuumed from the bathroom floor carpet (could someone British explain *that* bit of architectural design insanity to me?) so am feeling a bit better about the place. Someone did come and look at the mold this morning and it will hopefully be dealt with soon!
Writing, as you can probably tell, is slow at the moment, but I did submit something last Tuesday and I'm glad of that. There are two things I'd like to have done by the end of the month, so Friday better be productive in those terms!
In terms of the website progress, though this was not done today, I have written up a schedule for the two themed blog posts I want to do, in the sense that I have a topic header and the weeks they will appear. Just need to get to writing some of it so I'm not writing in a flurry each night they are due! I have at last fixed the base of the website so it does what I want - loved my theme, but it wasn't allowing drop down menus - luckily, someone else re-jigged the theme and made this available, so I'm using that one, with my own alterations again.
On that, would anyone be interested in reviewing the site before it goes live? I'm a reasonably good judge of these things, but several pairs of other people's eyes would be awesome. :)
Other things have been happening, much of it good, but I'll be here all night if I write about it, so for now, goodnight.
Today felt oddly productive, even though thus far I have written nothing. I finished off three books, two that had been sitting on my Kindle for Mac for ages and then mowed my way through V for Vendetta - as I was telling my housemate, I can understand why Allan Moore didn't like the film. I always thought the film was ok, but there was something...politically naive about it. Not the case with the graphic novel, and I much preferred the story arc with V and Evey in this, rather than the 'insert a romance!' thing that the film had going.
One of the books was The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and I'll say this, the stories were fun, but I also really enjoyed the writing itself. Lines the this:
"As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat."
Are just lovely to behold.
The other book was by M. Christian, and was called 'How to Write and Sell Erotica.' Quite a useful book, though when I got to the parts about the industry and all you need to do apart from write I got a little...panicky. Sigh. Suspect that was maybe partly why I stalled writing today...though I like to think it was also the fabulous weather and it seemed a good idea to go and sit in the garden too! Feeling much better now though.
I also managed a bunch of cleaning. The cupboard under the stairs, alas, house no boy wizard, but instead a patch of mold that's crept out to the carpet, and there is a dead mouse in there somewhere...which I didn't find. That's a Friday job. The bottom of the fridge has also been scrubbed and my hair vacuumed from the bathroom floor carpet (could someone British explain *that* bit of architectural design insanity to me?) so am feeling a bit better about the place. Someone did come and look at the mold this morning and it will hopefully be dealt with soon!
Writing, as you can probably tell, is slow at the moment, but I did submit something last Tuesday and I'm glad of that. There are two things I'd like to have done by the end of the month, so Friday better be productive in those terms!
In terms of the website progress, though this was not done today, I have written up a schedule for the two themed blog posts I want to do, in the sense that I have a topic header and the weeks they will appear. Just need to get to writing some of it so I'm not writing in a flurry each night they are due! I have at last fixed the base of the website so it does what I want - loved my theme, but it wasn't allowing drop down menus - luckily, someone else re-jigged the theme and made this available, so I'm using that one, with my own alterations again.
On that, would anyone be interested in reviewing the site before it goes live? I'm a reasonably good judge of these things, but several pairs of other people's eyes would be awesome. :)
Other things have been happening, much of it good, but I'll be here all night if I write about it, so for now, goodnight.
