I’ve been a blog slacker again, haven’t I?

I got caught up in the mad dash to christmas, honest. Oh, and needing to sleep.

But all of the presents are bought – except for a few The Ent has to buy for his step dad and for me, obviously. I even spent a mad Tuesday last week wrapping them all. Forty presents wrapped in 2hours 15 minutes. Has to be some sort of record, surely.

Grandma Gandalf gave us all money for Christmas… so much better than going ‘OMG, what is *that*?’ which we do every year with The Ent’s family *snicker*

No. Honest. They’re lovely. Whatever they are.

So I bought books. There’s a surprise. Lots and lots of books. I was a woman possessed in Borders. The Ent has a CD player thingy that would be on its why from Essex anytime now. It’s a present from all of us, so he can justify the expense, hehe. And Frodo and Samwise have more toys that you can shake a really big stick at.

Other than that I don’t think I’ve been doing anything else. But then my mind is usually a blank if I try to think as far back as yesterday *sigh*

Of to see Casino Royale tomorrow. So I’ll probably have a rant about that.

Torchwood: It’s not growing on me. Captain Jack becomes more shiny and plastic as the weeks roll on. Maybe he’s an auton? That would be a nice ending, as they melt him done and turn him into six pinters.

Stargate 200 episode: All’s anyone can say is, had its moments… but didn’t RDA look like he was at death’s door? Again.

Off to sort out Varo. I’ll update NaNo later. I’m all blogged out…

I enjoyed tonight’s episode… but for people watching on Wednesday, please can you point me in the direction of the sf element in his story??

And Owen? Puh-lease? Deeply unattactive, much? *grin*

…I know, shocking isn’t it.

But it hasn’t been that much, if that’s any consolation *grin*

My mind is oddly blank about the past few days. I could tell, you in detail, what’s been happening to Alesh and Varo, but my real life is vague.

I went to my other, other writing group last night. We all wrote a page of drama. Mine was pants, LOL Next week it’s poems. 4 lines and 8 lines. I think I may be giving the Vogons a run for their money. A poet I am not, LOL

Oh, and I meant to rant earlier about this week’s episode of Torchwood.

Anyone want to enlighten me as to what the hell the episode was about, besides showing again that they were post-watershed? I was completely and utterly confused. Something about the episode felt… disjointed.

And the end? The uncaring stepdad gets a Faerie fist shoved down his throat, Captain Jack gives away the daughter… and then they all troop back to the souped-up 4×4 and leave the distraught woman in her back garden… WTF?

Next week’s one looks better, though. *shrug* Here’s hoping.

Anyway. NaNo link is here:

I’ve been pretty slack this week. I’m just under 25000 words, which for me is a tonne weight of writing, but not that good for NaNoWriMo, LOL

I realise not that I’m about 3/4s of the way through the story and that another 20k will probably have it finished, with another 10k added after the nightmare that is the first draft is over. It’s doable, just not maybe in the next 13 days… 😉

I’m have the weekend off as I need to look at Past Lies which needs a rewrite and 10k added my New Year’s Eve… eep… So I want to thrash out what I have to do and then see if what I have planned is acceptable. Then write it. That starts 1 December. So Guardian is out of the loop for another month.

Oh, and I left Alesh and Varo very happy… but not for long…

Mwhahahahaha

Not much yesterday and about 12oo today. So I’m definitely slowing down, LOL

I’m at about 22k, but the past few days have been a rush of things, subs accepted, rejected, needing huge rewrites and two covers and blurbs to sort. Yes, excuses, excuses, I know. I don’t think I’ll get to 50k – but if I get to 40, I will be well pleased *grin*

The sub to Tor Paranormal is in the post.

With some rather lovely IRCs. So much nicer than the old ones. I’ll have to hunt out a picture. It’s Michaelangelo’s The Creation of Adam with a splash of gold where the fingers almost touch. Cool

:::Edit:::

Forgot my NaNo update:

I just got spam from Phaedrus Pancake… sorry, that’s me completely gone, LOL

It’s been slow going, mainly because I got to a dull bit, wrote through it, and realised after why it was dull and hard to write in the first place, LOL So, I have a bracketed note to myself to remember in the rewrite.

I also increased my word count to 1150 today, by going back and adding a semi-rude scene. *grin* Not fully rude, as there is a very good reason why Alesh and Varo should not have wild monkey sex. Aren’t I a bad person??

And I’m over 20k now! Woo hoo!

And off NaNo topic, but on sub topic, 7% and Rising got accepted by Samhain, and The Bone Magician’s Daughter got rejected by Berkley. So I’m getting another submission package out the door asap *grin*

…Berkley said… No.

Got some nice feedback, though.

So printing it out and popping a partial of to Tor Paranormal *grin*

Oh and here’s my NaNo update:

is a YES!

Much *squeeeee-age* in my house when I got the email this afternoon, LOL

This story is one of the special ones. One of the ones I had to plug away at to get it finished.

I’m a very happy camper today. *grin*