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Michael Cargill - 2nd edition of Saying Goodbye to Warsaw
Just collected my paperwhite! Weyhey!Looks like it'll have to be Wetherspoons for lunch tomorrow.
Beer in the afternoon. Yuck.
Hey Mike? You ever watch this new (I think it's new) freeview channel calked Quest?
Dave just found it and we've got a really good WWII documentary on at the mo.
Not head of that channel before, no. Boshed it on and discovered that my cable box is acting up.Got to wait 5 minutes whilst I let it reboot...
No worries. It's on five minutes of frickin adverts right now.
Yeah, they're bloody appalling.I never knew that cleaning carpets was something that women got all dressed up and excited for.
And what's with using kitchen roll to wipe up brandy butter?Tongue!
Should be shot for spilling it in the first place. Criminal behaviour.Obviously you've never been to a carpet cleaning party Michael, best social events ever!
Probably explains why carpet cleaners are always cheeky, chirpy cockneys.
Ha! That's pretty nifty actually.Good find.
It's not a bad premise for a short story either...
Yay! I've inspired an author!
OIY you.You've been way too quiet in here.
How's the writing progressing?
Blimey, it's been over a month since I wrote anything for my blog!At the moment, I'm right near the end of my current WIP. I had a sticky patch where I wasn't sure how to move things on but I'm just about over that now. In my head I've got a target of sorts of 50k words being the minimum required for a story to be long enough for a solo release and for a while I was worried that this one would fall well short of that.
I've also got one or two interesting ideas for other stories bouncing around in my head at the moment. When I finish this one I might take a break for a couple of weeks and start working on one of them before going back to do any editing.
Sticky patch.Hehehehehehehehehe
Covered with PVA glue and glitter?
Sometimes, you girls can be jolly silly.
All that ice and snow turns people into animals.No wonder us British peeps are such a funny bunch.
Cosmetics and water? Are they using permanent marker pens...?
Aaaaaaaand FINITO!Initial draft of my latest unnamed book is done!
YES!
So what am I going to do now? Um... maybe leave it a week... do one round of editing and then start on something else to clear my mind... go outside maybe... play on me Xbox...
Oh, the whims of a creative can be so tiresome.
I've got a shit load of papers that need sorting and filing.I'll even provide you with colourful tabs.
Well, no.I didn't work yesterday nor did I sort the papers.
I need one of them rountuoits everyone talks about.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Well, no.I didn't work yesterday nor did I sort the papers.
I need one of them rountuoits everyone talks about."
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-evsbP6Ck-_4...
Blog update time!Goddam liberal assholes at NASA are ruining the galaxy
http://michaelcargill.wordpress.com/2...
As a Canadian, I'd like to apologise for the existence of Bieber.
As far as I know I've never heard anything by this Bieber.All these things just seem to pass me by.
I remember daughter No.1 was interested in a boy band for a few weeks, can't remember which one it was though - although I have a feeling they could have been Irish.
Probably Westzone or Boylife then.
Gingerlily - Smiter of idiots. wrote: "Probably Westzone or Boylife then."Could be, it was around the time of the Spice Ladies. I seem to remember a video that got played a lot.
She grew out of it all rather quickly though.
Bieber, schmieber - I've updated me blog again!Everyone should brush, floss, and barf thrice daily
http://michaelcargill.wordpress.com/2...
You didn't explain the carrot chunk mystery.
It's a well know fact that whenever you puke there will be carrot chunks, no matter how long it's been since you ate carrots.
That's... an interesting idea that could possibly be used in the future...
Small update for those that are interested:The WWII story that I finished last month is still in hibernation and the 'plan' is to leave it there for another few months before I go back and do any editing.
In the meantime I've written two light hearted short stories and have just started work on a story with a fantasy setting. I have no real plans for it, so it could end up being another short story or it could be a rambling epic monstrosity.
Given that I've never attempted to write a fantasy story before, it's as much an experiment as anything else and assuming things go well the world that I'm building will be strong enough to be used again in the future. It's still early days (a mere 500 words!) so I don't know how prevalent things like magical spells, wizards, elves, dwarves, dragons, wyrms, etc. will be.
tl;dr - I'm making it all up as I go.
That's what everyone does! The definition of fiction. ;)
Hell yeah!And you're officially in the know about things like this now which is proper nifty, like.
I've always felt myself to be in the 'don't know' camp. Or even 'It's nowt to do with me.'
The highbrow blogger peeps over at Aside from Writing are running their annual Indie Author Month at the moment and they asked me to write an article for them!I present to you A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN AUTHOR. It's suitably embellished and exaggerated of course...
http://asidefromwriting.com/2014/05/0...
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Unfortunately I'll have to visit the local Wetherspoons to register it as I didn't get the 3G one.
I don't like Wetherspoons. :(
And it won't be waiting for me when we get there, either.
Delivery between the 16th and 18th, it sez.