Busy week

[elingregory]

I dunno. I seem to have got out of the habit of posting here and I feel bad abut that. Basically it's because of putting up "Comfy Chair" posts on otherblog - there's a new one today for bg_thomas's latest release in the Men of Steel anthology from Dreamspinner - which take quite a lot of time and concentration. I have 2 more this week tho'! Come and see charliecochrane on Thursday and I'll be posting for Sue Roebuck's latest on Saturday, with another more personal post when she gets back from her travels. Honestly being whisked away to Madeira sounds brilliant but not perhaps if it means being incommunicado on "new release day"!

What else have I been doing! Hmmmmm - oh, pictures. If you ever wondered what Cynfal and Gwion looked like wonder no more. They are featured on Sue Roebucks post about I for Illustration, along with a few of the other people who hang out in my brain. Also I've been trying to write something for the Lashing of Sauce anthology - I've had 4 false starts so far and am hoping that something might occur to me once Himself is back in school. All my writing routines have goen to cock *sigh* and I'm a little concerned that this is how it will be from July onwards once he has hung up his mortarboard and cane for the last time.

Still - we'll see. I've got far too many characters milling around in my head desperate to be heroic [not to mention the occasional one who would quite like to get laid, please, if it can be arranged] to meekly give up on the story telling and spend my mornings and evenings watching tv!

I've been reading too - so many terrific gay lit and M/M novels but also OMG! China Mieville!!! I'm reading The Scar and it is FANTASTIC! He had me on page one when he used the word 'obtained' in a perfectly correct way that I haven't seen in anything printed since the 1950s and made it exciting!

Comments

[bg-thomas.livejournal.com]

And thank you so much for that post. It was stunning. Have I told you lately that I love you?

Good luck on your busy week!

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

Have a good break! Then, when you get back I'll start nagging you about those novels! *hugs*

[sandra-lindsey.livejournal.com]

I've been rather amused by the appearance of the Comfy Chair after Alex was put to the question - quite a contrast!

I had several false starts on writing something for Lashings of Sauce, one of which I've tried umpteen times to write but it just doesn't want to be written down yet, and another that I was quite narked petered out too soon because I fell in love with the characters. But then it snowed, which may have solved my problems! (Though I've yet to actually submit it :-S)

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

"The Comfy Chair!" (http://youtu.be/XnS49c9KZw8) Duhhn duhn duuuuuuhnnnnn!!! I love the idea of poking authors with soft cushions until they answer my questions. I don't suppose you'd care for a sit in the chair at some time? We could talk about pirates and chickens.

[sandra-lindsey.livejournal.com]

Maybe if I do get a story in Lashings of Sauce? Pirates and chickens are things I can talk about for hours - other things include Wales Is Fab (and So Is Scotland but I've never lived there), Isn't It Weird Living Where Other People Go On Holiday To?, and Oooh Yay History! Men in Skirts and Tights!

Hmm... I'm going to lose access to the capitalisation drawer if I carry on like that any longer!

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

I think those are well worth capitalising. Especially the Wales bit and the men in skirts and tights.

I'm so used to the beauty and the history of where I live that I don't appreciate it as much as I should. For me the Georgian hunting lodge built on the Norman motte surrounded by the ruins of a medieval castle built on the edge of a Roman auxiliary cavalry fort overlooked by three celtic hill forts and with views to die for is just 'the office'. And the view that visitors enthuse over is what i stare blindly at when I'm trying to work my way through a tricky bit of phrasing in a story. It's only occasionally that I open my eyes properly and think "well damn am I lucky or what?"

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Mr Cochrane is taking early retirement in June - we will need to establish a system by which I can actually get some writing done. (I need space and time and...everything!)

Love the drawing. You multitalented girl, you.

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

I thought I'd replied to this but LJ must've ett it.

Bwahahaha - fossil!

We can compare notes on Retired Husband Management. Mine has been practising over the Easter holidays and is doing his usual gradual slide into being nocturnal.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

I guess one solution would be for them to share a house and us to share a house. Maybe half the year? :)