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December 25, 2011
Merry Christmas
A safe and happy Christmas to you all.
I have already had what I expect to be the best present I get this year -- four hand-made peppermint creams, made and posted by a friend who six months ago was not capable of finding her way home from 100 metres down a straight path, let alone the post office. $STUFF is nice, and I am grateful for it, but I am even more grateful for less tangible things. One of those things is the NHS, both as an institution, and as an embodiment of a concept which is known to those of many faiths and no faith, but is summarised in mine as "You shall love your neighbour as yourself."
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I have already had what I expect to be the best present I get this year -- four hand-made peppermint creams, made and posted by a friend who six months ago was not capable of finding her way home from 100 metres down a straight path, let alone the post office. $STUFF is nice, and I am grateful for it, but I am even more grateful for less tangible things. One of those things is the NHS, both as an institution, and as an embodiment of a concept which is known to those of many faiths and no faith, but is summarised in mine as "You shall love your neighbour as yourself."
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December 21, 2011
Gauda Prime Day, again
Peter Anghelides, former B7 fanzine editor and current pro novelist, talks about his visit to the set on the penultimate shooting day for "Blake". Good times. :-)
http://peteranghelides.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/return-to-gauda-prime/
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http://peteranghelides.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/return-to-gauda-prime/
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Gauda Prime Day synchrowatch
From Alteriel:
I shall endeavour to do the same. Let's get it trending, troopers.
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I'll be watching "Blake" tonight, starting at 8.10pm, and tweeting as I watch: #GaudaPrimeDay
I shall endeavour to do the same. Let's get it trending, troopers.
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Happy Gauda Prime Day!
Thirty years ago tonight, the BBC broadcast the last episode of Blake's 7. Yes, that episode, the one that even non-fans remember. Thirty years since Chris Boucher ruined everyone's Christmas. Or, looked at from another perspective, gave angst fans their best Christmas present ever.
And it was the gift that just kept on giving, as far as fanfic was concerned. It's still inspiring stories. But the ones I've got under the G-P tree farm are from the 20th Anniversary Wake. Tales 5 and 6 are now available for your reading pleasure at the zine website on WordPress.
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And it was the gift that just kept on giving, as far as fanfic was concerned. It's still inspiring stories. But the ones I've got under the G-P tree farm are from the 20th Anniversary Wake. Tales 5 and 6 are now available for your reading pleasure at the zine website on WordPress.
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December 20, 2011
Gauda Prime presents are under the tree, ready for the morning
Tales 5 and 6 (from the 20th Anniversary Wake) are now on the WordPress site, at least in draft form. They need to be tidied up, but they're readable. Alas, I have not had time to copy them over to AO3. Nor have I had time to dig out one of my own stories to upload, but I think two zines is enough for now. :-)
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December 19, 2011
uploading
Feeling much better this evening, so I've started uploading some stuff in preparation for Gauda Prime Day. There's nothing to see yet because I'm still working on the HTML conversion, but I hope to have at least some of the 20th Anniversary Wake and Hex issues of Tales available come Wednesday evening.
Also, Hafren has pointed out that the skeleton of Dead Boyfriend of the Week didn't make it across from WordPress to AO3, so I need to do that as well.
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Also, Hafren has pointed out that the skeleton of Dead Boyfriend of the Week didn't make it across from WordPress to AO3, so I need to do that as well.
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December 18, 2011
re-surfacing
Been essentially offline for the last week, because I had another week-long migraine, the second in less than a month. Started on Monday evening, by the time I got home from the day job on Tuesday the last thing I wanted to do was look at a monitor. Am not amused, and this will be flagged up at next GP visit as "okay, that wasn't a one-off, do we wait for the third or do something about it now?"
Much better today, but I'm still not fit to spend much time in front of the computer, so I am officially abandoning any notion of the book log for Oct and Nov being more than a list of the books read (with the exception of the LTER book which I owe a review for). Thought about trying to upload a bit more fanfic, but dealing with the email backlog used up my thinking power. Too fuzzy to bother trying to write some WIP longhand, particularly as even yesterday I felt sick simply writing Christmas cards. So spent a lot of the day listening to audiobooks and doing some cross-stitch -- and not any of the more complex ones, either. Backstitch outline on a nearly completed coaster was about my limit.
Really looking forward to having a week off over Christmas/New Year.
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Much better today, but I'm still not fit to spend much time in front of the computer, so I am officially abandoning any notion of the book log for Oct and Nov being more than a list of the books read (with the exception of the LTER book which I owe a review for). Thought about trying to upload a bit more fanfic, but dealing with the email backlog used up my thinking power. Too fuzzy to bother trying to write some WIP longhand, particularly as even yesterday I felt sick simply writing Christmas cards. So spent a lot of the day listening to audiobooks and doing some cross-stitch -- and not any of the more complex ones, either. Backstitch outline on a nearly completed coaster was about my limit.
Really looking forward to having a week off over Christmas/New Year.
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December 12, 2011
finished reading Troublesome Things
Took a while to get through it, and will take a while longer to digest, but am glad I did go ahead and get a new copy. I needed to re-read it to firm up where I was going with the story.
This is in part because I actually started writing this novel back in May 2007. As noted in my LiveJournal at the time, I got mugged by the first 10,000 words just before Baycon, then dived into the copy of Troublesome Things which I'd bought some months earlier but not yet read, and then waved my arms at various people during Baycon. (Definitely![[info]](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380985649i/3683640.gif)
ritaxis
and I think also
blakefancier
.) And while I did a bit more after that, I was then distracted by the process of getting ready to move back to the UK, then doing so, and then job-hunting. At which point I started working on the Lord and Master shorts that became Volume 2 and a freebie on my website. Then I turned out another 15 or 20 kwords in the L&M universe -- and then pretty much stopped writing for a couple of years owing to a bad case of Life.
So although I had a rough outline of Taxman in my head, and had poked at it in a desultory fashion on and off, I hadn't seriously worked on it for four years. I was surprised by how freely it flowed when I did start writing again, in fact. I could probably have kept going with it, but I'd always intended it to be grounded firmly in the existing body of British fairy lore, and wanted to refresh my thoughts on that which I'd developed from reading the Purkiss book.
I suspect it's still going to take me at least a year to get a submission-quality draft though, even if I manage to keep up the pace I was hitting just before I stopped to sit down and re-read my research materials.
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This is in part because I actually started writing this novel back in May 2007. As noted in my LiveJournal at the time, I got mugged by the first 10,000 words just before Baycon, then dived into the copy of Troublesome Things which I'd bought some months earlier but not yet read, and then waved my arms at various people during Baycon. (Definitely
ritaxis
and I think also
blakefancier
.) And while I did a bit more after that, I was then distracted by the process of getting ready to move back to the UK, then doing so, and then job-hunting. At which point I started working on the Lord and Master shorts that became Volume 2 and a freebie on my website. Then I turned out another 15 or 20 kwords in the L&M universe -- and then pretty much stopped writing for a couple of years owing to a bad case of Life.So although I had a rough outline of Taxman in my head, and had poked at it in a desultory fashion on and off, I hadn't seriously worked on it for four years. I was surprised by how freely it flowed when I did start writing again, in fact. I could probably have kept going with it, but I'd always intended it to be grounded firmly in the existing body of British fairy lore, and wanted to refresh my thoughts on that which I'd developed from reading the Purkiss book.
I suspect it's still going to take me at least a year to get a submission-quality draft though, even if I manage to keep up the pace I was hitting just before I stopped to sit down and re-read my research materials.
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December 11, 2011
Tales 3 partly up
Skeleton and about half the contents of Tales 3 now uploaded to AO3 and the WordPress site. I might get more done during the week but am not promising anything. Anyone who's already added their own stories to AO3 and wants to add them to the Tales collection, go ahead. Anyone who's got an account but not yet uploaded any of their stories from Tales (naming no
predatrix
es), grab the html from either site if you want.
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Tales 2 skeleton now up
Given the looming 30th anniversary of Gauda Prime Day, I've been doing some more zine archiving. The zine skeleton for Tales 2 is now on AO3 and the Wordpress site, along with a sampling of stories. They're all by Pred, because although I have explicit permission for a few others, those ones are part of the Party and won't make sense without the starter piece, for which I need to contact Susan Beth or find where I put my online permission granted list.
While looking for the aforementioned list, I found the file with the random snippets and one-liners I'd collected as possible filler material. Some of them didn't get used. I wish I'd had room/permission for them -- there was a lot of very funny word-play on the City.
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While looking for the aforementioned list, I found the file with the random snippets and one-liners I'd collected as possible filler material. Some of them didn't get used. I wish I'd had room/permission for them -- there was a lot of very funny word-play on the City.
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