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I'm busy, busy busy

  • - writing frantically (or as frantic as a slow, slow writer like me can get) to try and finish SPN_cinema, the J2RB joint story with blackrabbit42, and start on the idea I'm supposed to be doing for cassiopeia7's SPN_RB

  • - arting for the remaining spnRB prompt with septembers_coda and the J2RB prompt with amypond45 - both such cool and wonderful stories, chaps!

  • - going to London to see Rag'n'Bone Man in concert tonight

  • - preparing to paint the giant hare

  • - trying to produce 3 designs for giant penguins by 11th Dec

  • - planning a trip up north to see my Mum, Aunty M and cousin Michelle in January

  • - Christmas presents and bloody cards! Dammit.


All while trying to distract Paul from the horrible waiting for his Mum to die. (She is fading but not fast - sleeping a lot, not really there when she is awake, and it's really stressful for her two boys...)

Ugh. That just got out of hand, and wasn't what I was going to post at all. What I was going to post was THIS interesting and encouraging article about writing and storytelling, and why we should all keep telling our stories.
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This was on a writing blog today and I thought I'd share it here because - yeah - all the bleedin' time, matey. Art and writing both, for me.

encouragement under the cut! )

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In case any of my Flisties are interested, the University of East Anglia is running a free online (international) course -  An Introduction to Screenwriting. The course starts on Monday 29 February and will run for two weeks. You can find out all the details and register HERE
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Anyone fancy betaing a 1700 ficlet for me? I won't say what it's about here - PM me if you are up for it but want to know first.

xxxx

So dreams...How come other people have sexy-times with Jared and Jensen in their dreams and I have - embarrassment? T'ain't fair, y'all!

So my dream went like this.

We were lucky enough to bump into Jared somewhere, in a social situation. So we were sitting in this pub or similar, around a table, chatting to him. Except dizzojay was behaving oddly, and started talking in stalkerish terms with this strange glazed expression, leaning forward and stroking his cheek and hair. He was getting very uncomfortable, trying to turn his back on her, shifting in his chair, but she persisted. It was like one of those slow motion disaster movie sequences, because not only could we see this happening and were cringing inwardly, but of course I had to make it worse!! LOL

For some obscure reason, I had something Jared had written – a book or something dream-logical that didn’t make sense because it was written in sand (shades of GISHWHES perhaps) – and I leaned across waving this thing in his face and asking him loudly why he’d said about being naked i here, and not that we wanted him to be naked, you know, but he did have a fabulous body and…
Oh the embarrassment! Then the dream morphed into something else and that was it.

So not only did I embarrass myself I never got to see Jared naked either!

xxxx

On a different matter all together - useful guidance on self-editing HERE.
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I know a quite a few of my flist are writing original fiction, and so I thought I'd share this post I found on tumblr advising on novel lengths from the point of view of a publisher or publishing agent. Could be useful!
Check it out here
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Just something that resonated with me that I found on the interwebz today.  Time to give myself a kick up the bum, methinks.

If you only write when you’re inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist because you’re going to have to make your word count today and those words aren’t going to wait for you whether you’re inspired or not.

You have to write when you’re not inspired. And you have to write the scenes that don’t inspire you. And the weird thing is that six months later, a year later, you’ll look back at them and you can’t remember which scenes you wrote when you were inspired and which scenes you just wrote because they had to be written next.

The process of writing can be magical. Mostly it’s a process of putting one word after another.

Neil Gaiman in conversation with Chris Hardwick. (via terribleminds)
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Just something that resonated with me that I found on the interwebz today.  Time to give myself a kick up the bum, methinks.

If you only write when you’re inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist because you’re going to have to make your word count today and those words aren’t going to wait for you whether you’re inspired or not.

You have to write when you’re not inspired. And you have to write the scenes that don’t inspire you. And the weird thing is that six months later, a year later, you’ll look back at them and you can’t remember which scenes you wrote when you were inspired and which scenes you just wrote because they had to be written next.

The process of writing can be magical. Mostly it’s a process of putting one word after another.

Neil Gaiman in conversation with Chris Hardwick. (via terribleminds)
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Maybe one day, if I keep working at it, I will be able to write porn like this...

or maybe not!
I can't believe a) this is for real and b) it is actually published!!! (And according to the author's website, award-winning???)

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Maybe one day, if I keep working at it, I will be able to write porn like this...

or maybe not!
I can't believe a) this is for real and b) it is actually published!!! (And according to the author's website, award-winning???)

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