S.M. Carrière's Blog, page 216

Need Sleep!

Good morning world! I'm so exhausted right now, I just want to curl up in a nice warm bed with a lovely cuppa tea and listen to some relaxing music and then drifting off to sleep.It was a later night than usual last night and, no, it wasn't because of the Royal Wedding. I didn't stay up to watch that. To be perfectly honest, I'm not really bothered about the whole affair. It's not that I

Editing Pains

As most of you know, I'm almost done my rewrite of Overlord, Book 4 of The Great Man series. Yesterday, just as I finished my daily 3 000 words, bringing the current word count to just over 106 000, I came across a very large section that was now entirely redundant. I could salvage none of it.So with a sigh, I highlighted all 6 000 odd words of it, and pressed ctl+x. That's 6 000 words gone.

Move Along, There's Nothing to See Here

The walk home yesterday was horrific! Not only did it rain on me, twice, but I was witness to a traffic collision (no one was seriously injured) and had a bus splash me head to toe with filthy road water.Happily, I received a hat out of it all.Let's hope that today's journey is much less eventful.I wrote very well yesterday, getting my 3 000 words in before lunch. I think that I'm almost done.

Tuesday, Obviously

Well, today is Tuesday. Today is also the first day of the week, due to the Easter break. In that time I do absolutely nothing, save walk into town to feed a friend's cat and gecko. I felt so guilty every time I left my friend's apartment. Poor Fei Fei (cat) would ignore her food and frantically rub herself against my leg looking for cuddles. I felt so badly for her every time I closed the

Gowk's-Storm

A storm consisting of several days of tempestuous weather, believed by the peasantry to take place periodically about the beginning of April, at the time that the gowk, or cuckoo, visits this country. Metaphorically used to denote an evil or obstruction which is only of short duration. - John Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, 1808Today is ANZAC day in Australia. This

We Interupt This Regularly Scheduled Programme for Some Late Breaking News

Happy Easter, everyone!No, that isn't the news. The news is that All Things Books has very kindly allowed me to serialise a part of my eBook. Every Monday, I'll be posting a short bit of the titular short story The Dying God for you to read. Be sure to check out their blog every Monday (and every other day, while I'm at it!). In case you missed the two other links I provided, their blog is

Equivoke

An ambiguous expression; a quibble; from Latin aequivocus, ambiguous.- Joseph Worcester's Comprehensive Dictionary of the English Language, 1881

Motch

To eat little, slowly, quietly and secretly; to consume or waster imperceptibly. Hence, motching, fond of dainties, with the idea of eating in secret. Slow, quiet eating, eith the idea of fondness for good living. Banffshire. - Josehp Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1898-1905

TGI ... Th

That's right, thank goodness it's Thursday. Today is the last day of the working week. Wonderful, wonderful Easter has dictated that I require a four day weekend. Can anyone say "squee!"?Of course, that means that Monday's usual blog post will just be Forgotten English and nothing else, you lucky things. It also means that I won't be writing again until Tuesday. This is a good thing. It's

Mission Impossible is Possible?

You know how yesterday I said that it would never happen? Well, it did happen. I wrote 6 00 words yesterday and am now totally caught up to where I ought to be. I do believe my online expression of disbelief and triumph went something like this:I did it! I did it! I wrote 6 000 words in a day! In your face word count!I was going to buy myself some chocolate on the way home to celebrate, but