Ruddy weather!

[erastes]

I turned off the storage heaters because of the hot weather the past few days and this morning the sun has disappeared and it’s COLD. *dons jumper*

Don’t forget The Macaronis are over at Coffee Time this month – today Charlie Cochrane is in the chair answering questions and sharing excerpts and doing giveaways.

Just finished “The Ghost Road” by Pat Barker and it has depressed me terribly. I know people had to die, but… STILL. It was unremittingly depressing.  Yes yes, I know that was the point and it wasn’t a Romance but still. *sobs* 

I started “In the absence of men” by Luc Besson last night and it’s rather delightful. I’ll be reviewing that later.

Hugely disappointed with Carte D’or’s Caramel Cinamon waffle ice cream, as – unlike Ben & Jerry – the crunchy bits are just sprinkled on the top and once they were scoffed you are left with just ice cream. Nice ice-cream but i was missing the bits. Note to self, if I buy this again, buy Maltesers and sprinkle in.

Mere Mortals is crawling along – I had a real block last week (wibbling under the cut for anyone who’s interested)

or perhaps the last couple of weeks. The main reason I think is that the timeline has gone screwy. I printed it out, read it through and realised that the entire book had so far taken about ten days and that the relationships within it were developing far too fast. (people said that Standish had Rafe and Ambrose getting it together too fast, and that was over 3 months!) This bothered me, hugely and I wanted to go back and fix it, but I knew that if I did that, I wouldn’t get on with finishing it and it had its own momentum.  I was over half way through and i had made a list of “things that need to happen” and I’d written the ending. 

But the things that were wrong in the manuscript nagged at me, I felt I couldn’t go ON when there were so many loose ends, and the timeline was so short.  Part of this was caused by using Etherpad (which I love, as you know, and I’m not going to stop using it) because I was writing a lot faster than I normally do and was, in fact, creating a draft. I don’t usually create drafts. I don’t write terribly clean but I don’t do what many of my writerly friends do, e.g. do “re-writes”. In fact I don’t really understand the term, never have. It does seem to mean different things to different people.  But it seems now this is a draft, and I’ll have to learn what a rewrite is rather than just cosmetic tidy-up!