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erastesMy advance for Transgressions has arrived. Well, half of it, but it means I can be unemployed for about a month longer! Not a sexy thing to add to one's interview questions though. "What did you spend your first major advance on?" "Being unemployed."
Rictor Norton's website is down http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/ - - the main page is there,but I can't access any of the other pages - and the visitor counter has reset to zero. That can't be good. This is worrying - I spend a LOT of time on that site. A LOT. eta: I've just heard from Rictor (bless him) and his site has been suspended due to too many visitors. This is a disaster. A DISASTER.
I have realised that I'm not quite the born hermit that I thought I was. It's all right being a hermit when one has a car to be ABLE to go out when one fancies it, but having enforced hermitage isn't suiting me at all. I've been housebound since last Thursday and frankly I'm sick of it.
Call me dim if you like - I won't mind - but I've suddenly realised that if Transgressions does well then Perseus are going to turn around and say "OK - what else have you got?" It's probably better if I don't stare blankly at them and make guppie noises. So I need to get FF finished and I'll get started on Fleury this week, even if it's only a case of scribbling down ideas. And which book is missing from my shelf? Yup. Everyday life in the 1800's, which is exactly the book I need. Why does this happen? I SWEAR I've got malicious Borrowers in the house, because every time I want a particular thing I can't find it. Yesterday I really really really wanted to play Snake Eater and it was the one game that was missing. *Sets the cats on the Borrowers*
There's an interesting article on bi-sexuality here which I linked to via bi-writers. It's a little depressing too, that bis are so marginalised by all sides and pushed under the carpet. I don't often talk about my personal life or whatever but I am overwhelmingly bi. For me, attraction has nothing to do with gender - it's the person. If I get on with someone and there's that spark there then that's more important. This doesn't mean that any of my friends with whom I have a spark with need worry I'm going to jump 'em - any more than straight men should worry that gay men will do, it doesn't work like that. I used to be (I suppose), straight, in as much as I had relationships with men - but the first time a woman made a pass I reciprocated gladly.
What I don't like about that interview is that it colours bis as being unfaithful - the gay curious/bi politicians who are constantly being found out, the woman who says she's married with a girlfriend. Not that there's anything wrong with that at ALL, but just because one is bi, it doesn't mean that one has an open relationship. I'm monogamous when in a relationship, obsessively so - but the choice of the gender of my next partner isn't fixed in stone.
Rictor Norton's website is down http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/ - - the main page is there,but I can't access any of the other pages - and the visitor counter has reset to zero. That can't be good. This is worrying - I spend a LOT of time on that site. A LOT. eta: I've just heard from Rictor (bless him) and his site has been suspended due to too many visitors. This is a disaster. A DISASTER.
I have realised that I'm not quite the born hermit that I thought I was. It's all right being a hermit when one has a car to be ABLE to go out when one fancies it, but having enforced hermitage isn't suiting me at all. I've been housebound since last Thursday and frankly I'm sick of it.
Call me dim if you like - I won't mind - but I've suddenly realised that if Transgressions does well then Perseus are going to turn around and say "OK - what else have you got?" It's probably better if I don't stare blankly at them and make guppie noises. So I need to get FF finished and I'll get started on Fleury this week, even if it's only a case of scribbling down ideas. And which book is missing from my shelf? Yup. Everyday life in the 1800's, which is exactly the book I need. Why does this happen? I SWEAR I've got malicious Borrowers in the house, because every time I want a particular thing I can't find it. Yesterday I really really really wanted to play Snake Eater and it was the one game that was missing. *Sets the cats on the Borrowers*
There's an interesting article on bi-sexuality here which I linked to via bi-writers. It's a little depressing too, that bis are so marginalised by all sides and pushed under the carpet. I don't often talk about my personal life or whatever but I am overwhelmingly bi. For me, attraction has nothing to do with gender - it's the person. If I get on with someone and there's that spark there then that's more important. This doesn't mean that any of my friends with whom I have a spark with need worry I'm going to jump 'em - any more than straight men should worry that gay men will do, it doesn't work like that. I used to be (I suppose), straight, in as much as I had relationships with men - but the first time a woman made a pass I reciprocated gladly.
What I don't like about that interview is that it colours bis as being unfaithful - the gay curious/bi politicians who are constantly being found out, the woman who says she's married with a girlfriend. Not that there's anything wrong with that at ALL, but just because one is bi, it doesn't mean that one has an open relationship. I'm monogamous when in a relationship, obsessively so - but the choice of the gender of my next partner isn't fixed in stone.
