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Archive for February, 2007

Nobody wants to watch a headache

Posted by Reed on February 23rd, 2007

Especially not one that lasts for days and days.
Which is why I have been maintaining strict radio silence.
And one day I will wake up and I won’t have a headache and I will run in here all smiles and giggles and we’ll have things to talk about, oh yes, but meanwhile the ibuprofen is wearing […]

Popular demand is like that

Posted by Reed on February 17th, 2007

Well, now, you do realize you’ve given the Editor the worst case of heartburn ever to have afflicted that unconscionably sour individual. The Editor, in fact, will not be joining us today. The Editor is out hunting for aniseed-flavour Gaviscon.
You see, when I stomped my little feet and insisted on posting the first scrappet of […]

Book Meme

Posted by Reed on February 11th, 2007

I found this meme over at Helen’s, and unashamedly swiped it. [Bollocks to tagging. It’s too like playing Best Friends at school - Ed]. I apologise for the Editor. No coffee yesterday. No coffee yet today. Me, I tag anyone who’d quite like a go, really.
Here are the instructions:
Look at the list of books below. […]

No sniggering at the back

Posted by Reed on February 10th, 2007

Well, now, I’m terribly busy working time-and-a-half at the Blasted Library (leaking, incidentally, from every new window-pane) this weekend, and can’t come and play. But as The Plan is continuing apace, I thought I’d treat you all to the first, the very first, untouched, unedited, exactly as I wrote it on the 1st of November, […]

There is a plan, and its name is Fret

Posted by Reed on February 6th, 2007

Back on the post Instant gratification, or, Don’t blog tired., I was whining about having to take all 50000 words of the precious NaNoWriMo novel and turn them from a peculiar assortment of babble and plot-holes into a coherent, err, novel. Possibly doubling the word count in the process. (Ed, (as in pal rather than […]

You know you’ve arrived when…

Posted by Reed on February 2nd, 2007

… You find 72 spam comments in your in-box.
And for a minute there I thought my fans had multiplied like the very loaves and fishes.

Instant gratification, or, Don’t blog tired.

Posted by Reed on February 2nd, 2007

So, I have a novel to rewrite, and to finish rewriting, by September. The very thought maketh me to weep. A friend once, very kindly, pointed out that the thing about blogging, as opposed to, say, writing a novel, is that you can have pretty much instant gratification, both of the cacoethes scribendi* and the […]