Non dizzy!

[erastes]

Today is the first time I've not had vertigo for just over four weeks.  Phew. That was really unpleasant and I really never want that again. It was just bliss to walk to the car without hanging on to the wall.

I've bought myself a new universal remote control as my Satellite control simply never turned up (Lucius probably ate it) and it's rather swish - touch screen!  I love gadgets. It's just as well I have very little money or I'd bankrupt myself with STUFF that blinks and beeps.

I sent a shed load of troops (ok, 14) to recapture my six  boys who'd been captured. But the bastard captured THEM too. *growls* I'm an extremely bad loser, and if I can't win, I really don't want to play. I would like - overnight Santa if you are listening - 200 cavalry and about 40 catapults so I can go and bash that bastard to smithereens and GET MY BOYS BACK!!!  God knows what horrors those Teutons are perpetrating on them. And the insult to injury is that I'm having to pay for their keep!  He's not even feeding them! Ok. returning to sanity...

People who write in other genres - are writers as bitchy in your genres as they are in mine? Does Stephen King get really snotty with George R R M? Does Terry Pratchett bitch all over Jim Butcher?  (I put wank rather than bitch and then changed it hurriedly, that's not a vision I want in my head, thank you!)

The amount of nastiness, bitchiness and downright BILE I've seen in the last few days - (well, to be honest, ever since I've been writing, really, it just seems to have been worse in the last week or so) is so discouraging. Readers and writers who seem completely incapable of holding a discussion about anything.  When I was at school, one of the "arts" we were taught was debate. (No doubt our school was under the impression that we gels were destined for the House of Commons)  In debate you have to do that, argue against your opponent's point of view and the major rules were that you were never to lose your temper or make any personal attack at your opponent.  I've said before that when I came out of fandom I was like some fluffy bunny, sniffing in the sunlight thinking that mixing with professional writers online would be like some techno-Bloomsbury Set or the Inklings. We'd debate the merit of the written word, puff on imaginary pipes and wear virtual tweed with elbow patches. 

How naive I was.

Oh - and don't forget the Advent Calendar - it's still going!

Comments

[erastes.livejournal.com]

as long as it needs to be really - scene breaks will come naturally. no more than about 5k in general but it doens't really matter.

[the-sea-to.livejournal.com]

Ah thank god. I was worried. I figure if I keep a "segment" of plot with one decent revelation per chapter it will work. This is really weird, I'm so hyped up now that I'm writing again. Have all this random energy!