It’s The Ent’s birthday today – not saying how od, cos he’ll get upset.

We went out for a meal and ate too much. Retired to a cafe bar and watched the bar flies *grin*

Tomorrow I have a night-out-meal-type- thing with the fighting Uruk-hai. I am going to be soooo fat *sigh*

I just realised I put chapter eight rather then chapter six for the next part of Bone Magician.

Wishing this was done, finished, over with? You bet, LOL

I want to get on with Alchemy. I have sex, drugs but… as yet… no rock ‘n’ roll in 6th century Byzantium.

22k into Bone Magician and counting…

Got nothing done.

Walked to the local Oxfam with Frodo, carrying far too many books. We both got soaked through, LOL Samwise went swimming with The Ent.

Thought about catching up with Bone Magician… then sleeping turned out to be a better option *grin*

Samwise is in Nursery tomorrow morning, so I such get into chapter six for the hour and a half that he’s there.

You could just predict how the UK would vote in Eurovision… and no surprise that Lithuania and Finland got the top points. And then Finland hammered everyone. Which is cool, hehe

Now my Eurovision fix is over for another year.

Not much writing done as I spent 5 hours steaming woodchip from Samwise’s new room. But I did realise a connection, and a service that my main character in Alchemy performs. She’s an amoral alchemist, doing almost anything for money, so it’s really useful if she makes recreational drugs for the aristocracy.

5 hours – one useful thought.

‘Bout average… *grin*

Something slightly different from the usual bland faire *grin*

The Lithuanians are also a fab choice.

Mainly for the cheek of their song…

No writing done today. I knuckled down, sort of, to household thingies. It’s looking vaguely tidy at the minute.

It won’t last…

I want Lordi – the Finnish entry. The Ent is ranting about the Lithuanian entry – We Are the Winners.

Fight. Fight. Fight.

hehe

The Ent seems to have brought a bug home.

Let the stonking headache and vomiting ensue…

Alchemy now has its prologue. Yay.

It turned out to be a lot darker than I expected it would be. A lot darker, LOL. But it crystallised a number of things that will be important to the plot. Which surprised the hell out of me.

I’ve always said this. My subconscious is the writer. I’m just here to type *grin*

So I’m dutifully typing out chapter three of Bone Magician… and enjoying how annoying Jarod can be, LOL and it hits me. Out of nowhere.

Alchemy needs a prologue. A ‘how the two main characters met under dire circumstances’ prologue.

I am so becoming the prologue queen *sigh*, but Varo doesn’t pop up until the end of chapter three. I think the reader needs to see him in action and that would help with Alesh’s motivation… and her general obsession, hehe

This week has been a bit crazy.

It started off with good intentions to attack the latest edits of Mackenzie… but then my body went into free all and I began to swell up like a balloon and just ache, LOL I couldn’t sit at my desk without my feet and hands bloating to twice their normal size. I’m blaming the heat.

Fast forward to Thursday and I finally got going on my edits and finished them late last night. YAY. They’ve been shot into the ether and I await word on the next round.

Meanwhile, I’m back to Bone Magician and deep into chapter three. I’m also going to start looking at Alchemy again. I need to push that along if I want to sub it by September.

And finally… I entered the Romance Junkies Writing Contest. After last year’s debacle, LOL, I’m not saying what story or what name I entered under.

So there, hehe

…back to Fen and her melting corpses…