The car is pretty much loaded now, and I'm sitting here looking at the bits and pieces yet to find a place. Do we really need a vacuum cleaner, sure there was one there already, but what do I know??? 'This has nowt to do with thee', as they say in Yorkshire, 'we know what we're doing so keep your masculine nose out of it'. One woman in the house is bad enough, two is a disaster. Where the hell am I going to put my fishing tackle?
Been having a few thoughts about the course, about which story I should be concentrating on - Modern Crime or Historical drama. DC Terry Ellis, the Hundred Years War or a story of the Lady Penrhyn; the vessel that took the first female convicts to Australia in 1787. Nano stories they are - National Novel Writing Month - write 50,000 words from scratch in the month of November. I always assumed 'Long Journey' would be the one, just lately though I'm having doubts.
Okay, time to go. I'll be missing for at least a couple of weeks, but once I get things set up, I'll be back.
Chris.
Wednesday, 5 August 2009
Monday, 3 August 2009
Chasing rainbows...
The sun's shining, burning the back of my hand through the double glazing as I sit here with my laptop exactly where it's supposed to be - on my knees. In three days time we'll be heading 400 miles south to Falmouth and the impossible dream comes a step closer to reality.
The reading list is a bitch, not a single author on it that I've read previously. Not quite true, I got three from the library, Helen Dunmore, William Boyd and Paul Auster, though the latter will probably go back unread. 'Ice cream' (Dunmore) is a collection of short stories, some I liked, some I didn't, but guess I need to keep a record of my thoughts. William Boyd - Any Human Heart is okay, but at 500+ pages I won't have time to move on to Oracle Night.
My own writing ground to a halt last week. I need time to myself to write well and just wasn't getting it. As a result it was going nowhere and there's nothing annoys me more than that. One bright star shone in the sky last week though - Thursday evening at Cougar Park, Keighley - my last game with Dewsbury Rams for at least a year :o( Final score Keighley 14 Dewsbury 54, so that's 15 wins on the trot, and the NL League title secured with three games left to play. Man, they couldn't have timed it better.
That's me on the left celebrating the win in the Cougars Bar, 'Sans beard' these days. I'm gonna miss our trips all over the place to support our team. Oh, and one big shock. I got a message on the RL forum following my match report, from an old school friend I lost touch with 40 odd years ago. He's been living out in Malaysia for some years and been enjoying the match reports I do for the club website. Strange how life turns sometimes. I'm a great believer in 'Fate', why now Mick? Why did you get in touch now? Along with Carol Anne's novel teasers, guess that's something else I'll just have to wait to learn the answer.
Intriguing 'n'est ce pas?'
Chris
The reading list is a bitch, not a single author on it that I've read previously. Not quite true, I got three from the library, Helen Dunmore, William Boyd and Paul Auster, though the latter will probably go back unread. 'Ice cream' (Dunmore) is a collection of short stories, some I liked, some I didn't, but guess I need to keep a record of my thoughts. William Boyd - Any Human Heart is okay, but at 500+ pages I won't have time to move on to Oracle Night.
My own writing ground to a halt last week. I need time to myself to write well and just wasn't getting it. As a result it was going nowhere and there's nothing annoys me more than that. One bright star shone in the sky last week though - Thursday evening at Cougar Park, Keighley - my last game with Dewsbury Rams for at least a year :o( Final score Keighley 14 Dewsbury 54, so that's 15 wins on the trot, and the NL League title secured with three games left to play. Man, they couldn't have timed it better.
That's me on the left celebrating the win in the Cougars Bar, 'Sans beard' these days. I'm gonna miss our trips all over the place to support our team. Oh, and one big shock. I got a message on the RL forum following my match report, from an old school friend I lost touch with 40 odd years ago. He's been living out in Malaysia for some years and been enjoying the match reports I do for the club website. Strange how life turns sometimes. I'm a great believer in 'Fate', why now Mick? Why did you get in touch now? Along with Carol Anne's novel teasers, guess that's something else I'll just have to wait to learn the answer.
Intriguing 'n'est ce pas?'
Chris
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