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Ev’ry mornin’ find me moanin’

Posted by Reed on May 12th, 2007

Isn’t work completely bloody? Even when you quite like your job and think most of your co-workers are even, dare I say it, quite nice? Nevertheless, it’s Exam Term, the students are Revolting (hoo, yes), and inexplicably everything goes completely wrong at once so quite a lot of time has to be spent working out […]

A Curate’s Egg

Posted by Reed on March 19th, 2007

I’m still here. I’m tired, I’m full of snot, I’m grouchy [Is any of this news? - Ed], but I’m still here. Hah. But lurking, obviously. Can one lurk on one’s own blog? [It takes solipsism to a new level of affectation, certainly].
Anyway, The Novel. I re-read the entire thing.
Hmm.
Parts of it I like a […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]