Rome not Runcorn!!

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Last Sunday morning, long before dawn, we headed off to Heathrow… and got trapped in the maze of dead ends and one ways that is Runcorn.
It was not an indication of how the rest of the holiday was to go.
We had a blast. Here’s a couple of piccies to be going on with and I’ll write more tomorrow when I can actually keep my eyes open…

Am I ready…?

On By Kim KnoxIn doing nothing

…to go on holiday? No, I am not.

Well, I ready to go, as in, I need the time away to stare at ancient things and go ‘oooh’. But have I sorted the house, the clothes… anything? That would be a big fat no.

Where does the time go in the day?

So… I’d better stop blogging and actually do something.
Oh, no, here’s The Ent with hot chocolate because it’s an insane -2C outside *brrr*

Another night written off, LOL

My general obsession with fanfic

On By Kim KnoxIn fanfic, Writing

On some days I can’t help myself: I have to read fanfic. It’s one of the illegal pleasures when I should be writing…

I first discovered it on the web about 5 years ago and have been addicted ever since. I’m a sad SG-1, CSI obsessive, LOL There’s also the odd Blake’s 7/Voyager crossover, which is fun.

I realised that when I first started writing… far back into the mists of time *sigh*… that I wrote a form of fanfic. The characters were already set. And of course the heroines were total Mary Sue’s *grin* But as an entry into learning how to write it was useful. It got me writing. It kept me writing. And me being about fourteen it was completely awful, LOL

I’m not going to share my early fandoms, though. The writing was bad enough *cringe*

I wish I could write fanfic, though. I can never make the characters canon. Kudos to those writers who can. And you know who you are… *grin*

It might me a good thing that I can’t do it. It would be yet another distraction from getting my dragon story finished…

Snow, Snow, Snow…

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…a whole half inch of it. At least it got Samwise wanting to get to Pre-school this morning, LOL All that snow was just too tempting to run through. *grin*

This is the view from my front room window… you can just make out the millemetres of white stuff, LOL

Another bad blog month

On By Kim KnoxIn dragon, Frodo, reading

Where did the month go… and what the hell was I doing? LOL

Mostly, I’ve been trying to write a dragon story. It’s a ‘carving it in stone with a wet noodle’ sort of effort. Not fun at the minute.

Oh as The Ent reported on his blog, Frodo is learning to read. I can’t tell you how very important this is, LOL. He seems to have broken through the ‘this is too hard’ barrier and is enjoying the very simple books his school supplies to read at home. We’ve found him on his bed, reading them to himself! *grin*

He has an assessment in March. To go to a language unit, we have to prove that there is a large gap between his abilities and his language development. Learning to read has to prove that gap is huge.

I’ve been a-dragoning…

On By Kim KnoxIn dragons, Writing

…and the story is becoming more bizarre the more I write.

Not sure it’s a good thing, either, LOL

My hero is cool. Which is all important. I just can’t seem to get a grip on where the story is going and what it’s really about. So at the minute, I’m just writing and writing, stopping, talking to myself as I wander through the house, and trying to figure out how to make this damn thing gel.