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Going to be hot again tomorrow too – lovely breeze though, so I love it. Good English weather.

Burn Notice is continuing to be very good, a classic case of “case that happens in this episode as well as an over-reaching arc” – something I was discussing with Joanne Soper-cook today, coincidentally.

Less tits and arse in season 2, definitely, so probably wasn’t just me who found that annoying. It’s peculiar though that all the men, including Michael and Sam are “not classicly hot” – I know that Geek was the new black recently, so perhaps that’s it. What with Chuck and all. Michael is rather odd looking, which I really rather like, his jaw and teeth particularly giving him a smile that is convincing but really very scary.

Not much else to report, actually. Have worked a little on MM today. Those of you who have read Standish will know that dialogue wasn’t something I was terribly practiced at, and these last few scenes in MM rely very heavily on dialogue, so I’m working, working and reworking them like mad. Does this sound like an 18 year old Victorian male? Does this sound like someone who thinks the worst of the situation? What does X character do when he meets B character, the one he thinks has done this terrible thing? I know I have betas, but I don’t want to rely on them to tell me what’s right, I need to explore this for myself – in the same way that I explored themes in fanfic “just to see” if I could do them – themes that I probably would never write about again. the taboo subjects, you know.RPG certainly helped me a lot with dialogue, but this kind of almost screenplay type of intensity is not something I’ve done before. It’s coming but it’s coming terribly slowly. Literally a paragraph a day, or two.

Does anyone else get floored by the emotion? At the moment I find it so bad, doing bad things to good people, that it’s as much as I can do to nip in, write and run away again. a bit like hiding behind the sofa when the Daleks are on.

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