Such is the reality of life as a writer— there IS no time off.
Other people leave the office and go off on holidays, but that's not the case with writers. Oh sure, we can easily walk away from the writing desk, but it's not so easy to flick the switch in our heads that makes us stop thinking of the next thing to write. We're stuck in that headspace. A writer's brain will continue to churn, even when we want to think about other things. It's not a BAD problem to have. It's not as bad as, say, being born without a head or waking up one morning to find your house is made of cheese. But it can get annoying. It means that you can never really relax...
I've had a few days off ever since sending in my first draft of LSODM. The last time I spoke with Nick, my editor, he was halfway through and loving it. Apparently. So that's good. I think. I'm not sure what my feelings are towards this new book. At the moment I'm too close to it, I don't know if it's good or great (or, yikes, bad) so I'm at that stage where uncertainty is tainting everything and I'm just waiting for Nick to finish the whole thing and say "Yeaahhhhh it's... fine... BUT..."
So yes, I've had a few days off since then. Two of which were taken up with meetings. But from Thursday on, I haven't even had to answer the phone. So what have I been doing?
Planning.
I have two short stories to write for various things. I want to do a lot more for the Skulduggery short story collection coming out next year. I need to start thinking of Skulduggery Book Nine. And I have to get a handle of what I'm going to write AFTER. What book is going to coming out in 2015? What will the next series be?
So that's what I've been doing over the weekend.
But now that I have the first draft handed in, hopefully I'll be able to get back to posting here on a weekly basis, and being a bit more present on Twitter, and generally getting things back to normal. You've all been very patient while I've had my head down, and I appreciate it. As a reward, here's a thing.
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What do you call a man without a spade on his head?
WHAT DO YOU CALL A MAN LYING IN A PILE OF LEAVES
Damn you, Jubi.
Answer: Dugless! Aka Douglas. :)
JUBI BE AWESOME. :)
DOUGLESS
THE KING OF SPADES!!!!
OBOVIOISLY!
@Jubi: Don't know that one. :P
Hedgehog? :)
Fourteen seventy-two?
RUSSEL!
@Taia: *laughs irl* :)
WHY DID THE TOILET PAPER ROLL DOWN THE HILL???
@Jubi: *laughs irl* AWESOME! :) Dammit.
he had to get to the bottom
xP *laughs at own immaturity*
Argh, i'm Slow
But you cam't tame me!
CAN'T BE TAMED!!!!!
To get to the bottom. Yes, Jubi . . .
I WILL OUTJOKE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
What do you call a train that chews bubblegum?
@Star: xD
*is also laughing irl :P*
I don't know any of these past the 'still no idea'. xD
CHEW CHEW TRAIN
A CHEW CHEW TRAIN! xD
@Taia: YOU ARE UNTAMABLE!!!!!!!! YOU ARE WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD! :)
WHAT DO YOU CALL A MAN WITH NO ARMS OR LEGS
* IN THE WATER
Drowning, possibly?
YES!
*racks brain*
WHAT DID THE BIG CHIMNEY SAY TO THE LITTLE CHIMNEY?
"YOU'RE TOO YOUNG TO SMOKE!"
*grins*
@Jubi: Dunno, dammit. :P
BOB!!!!
cause he's bobbing up and down in the water
TAIAAAAAAAAAAAAAA YOU EVIL.
Yes. :)
What type of room has no windows or doors?
YOU'RE TOO YOUNG TO SMOKE!
@JUBI: DAMMITTTTTTTTTTTTTTT! :P
DAMMIT TAIA
XD
this is getting intense
Le MushROOM? xD
Taiaceratops is evil. It's because of the pomegranate diet. *nods*
@ Star
I guess, a well?
18, wheeeee, gingko, blowfish?
umm *thinks*
MUSHROOMS!!!!!!!!
how do crazy people go thru the forest?
BOB? xD
@Jubi: Upside down?
NOPE!
@Jubi, they don't?
I mean, I'm crazy, and if I could, I'd probably go through a forest walking on my hands, so, upside down.
*nods*
I don't know. :P
NO! THEY TAKE THE PSYCHO-PATH
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! *kills Taia*
*is laughing*
Okay, okay.
There were once three men called Poo, Manners and Get Lost and one day they all decided to go on a bike ride together. This is a joke that doesn't require an answer, so I'll just ask, can anyone say what happens next?
@PHYSCOPATH: OH DAMMIT GOOD ONE. :)
THEY PROBABLY RUN INTO SOMEONE WHO ASKS THEIR NAMES AND THEN THE DUDE TAKES IT THE WRONG WAY AND GETS ALL OFFENDED
or something like that
I dedicate this page to dinosaurs, bananas and jokes.
Also to LM, 1D, bubbles and breaking out into song at unexpected intervals!
Also to speckles, sparkles, Bloglandians, pomegranates and pill bugs.
WHY DID THE COOKIE CRY?
Awesome ded, Fabi. :)
@Jubi: MWAHAHAHA, I KNOW A JOKE THAT YOU DON'T KNOW!!!!!
But somehting like that, yes. :)
@Jubi & Psychopath: XD
*is killed*
*returns to life, because I AM THE TAIACERATOPS and I can do that. :P*
Awesome ded, Fabi! :3
@Jubi: Somehting do do with chocolate chips, I think.
Because he was going to be eaten?
Because he got chipped by chocolate?
AWESOME DED FABIIIII :D
join our joke war!
@Star
Okay
Poo: I have no idea how he got on the bike, therefore, he has no story
Manners: He has a safe journey
Get Lost: It's in his name, he get's lost
THE END
NOPE! BECAUSE HIS MOM WAS A WAFER SO LONG
@Jubi
Beacause he crumbled?
Poo fell off his bike and Manners stopped to help him up. Get Lost when round the corner and bumped into a policeman.
The policeman asked, "What's your name?"
And Get Lost said, "Get Lost!"
And the policeman said, "Where are your manners?"
And Get Lost said, "Round the corner picking up Poo."
...*Brain prossess Jubis joke*.......OH!
@Jubi: OH GOOD ONE. *scowls*
Knock knock!
i was close enough xP
WHO'S THERE?
xD
Too much funny. :P
I don't think I know many jokes...
*frowns*
What vegetable can you play snooker with?
@Taia: STARRY HAS NO IDEA! D:
@Who's there:
ISABELLE!
ISABELLE WHO?
Oh I think I know the iseabelle joke....
ummmmm an orange..?
nonono that's a fruit...
xD
I DON'T KNOWWW
IS A BELL RINGING?
Not that funny, sorry. :(
I would do the Doctor Who one, but surely everyone knows that . . .
Knock knock!
*answers self to save time*
Who's there?
Boo!
Boo who?
(Anyone know it?)
[Scowls]
My best joke doesn't really work when you type it up...
*Isabelle
@Boo who: Don't Cry! :P
Aw, don't cry!
The way I know it is "Don't cry, it's only a joke!" but that worls too. :)
Dammit.
A CUE-CUMBER.
:P
WAIT NO!!!
a...
cue...
umm
CUE CUE CUE CUE CUE CUUEEEEE
CUCUMBER?
aww DARN!
*nods* Well done, Jubi. xD
There was a street with a blue house, a re house, a purple house, a yellow house, a grey house and a green house. The yellow house was made out of yellow bricks and the blue house was constructed of blue bricks. What was the green house made of?
dammit
i gtg
BYEEEEE
@Taia: LOL. :)
:( Fours, Jokesmaster!
Sorry I disappeared! :(
Me and my friends we facetiming :)
CUE-CUMBER?
CLUE-CUMBER!
A CLUE! A CLUE!
So we did we find another paw print?
No we didn't what a bummer!
We can't put in in our notebook
Where's the CLUE, CUMBER?
Blaaah, that joke didn't really work! It's just what my brain thought! XD
green bricks???
probably not...
Star - Ooh, glass?
(Not here)
Bye Jubi!
Hello again, Leigh! We all are dinosaurs!
Awh! Bye, Jubiosaurus!
@Star: Green bricks, by any chance? :P
*except Star
*and Tyler
Dinosaurs...?
*laughs*
@Leigh & Star: Oh! GREENHOUSE. xD
Hi again, Leigh!
Dinosaurs rule (like rulers). :P
Boooooooo!!!!
@Leigh: YES, GLASS, DAMN YOU. :)
Everybody knows my jokes. *giggles*
Welcome back, btw. :)
Hm.
Who swings through the cakeshop, yodelling?
Hi Taia! :)
Ooh, are we doing riddles? :P
Pinky Pinkerton lives in a bungalow in which everything is pink. The couches are pink, the floors are pink, the TV is pink, the bed is pink... So what colour are the stairs?
(This is quite easy...)
Hi Star! :)
Score! XD
THERE ARE NO STAIRS!
BUNGALOWWWWW.
YESSSSSSS! XD
what's big and yellow and eats rocks?
THERE ARE NO STAIRS COZ IT BE A BUNGALOW!
A man lives on the top floor of a tall building with fifteen floors. Every day when he goes to work he takes the elevator to the bottom floor. However, when he comes back from work, he takes the elevator up to the thirteenth floor and then walks up the last two floor, EXCEPT when it's raining he takes the elevator to the top floor.
Why is this?
Taia: NO IDEA!
I'm temporarily back xD
@JUBI: STARRY NOT KNOW!
TARZIPAN. ^^
Because... Um...
THE TOP TWO FLOORS HAVE NO WALLS OR CEILINGS 😂
@TAIA: *laughs8 BRILLIANT. :)
They are joke telling, dino's
I'm an angel (you can tell that by my name :3)
I went onto tumblr, came off of it, too much scary stuff for 10:15pm
@Leigh: No, sorry. :(
Good idea, though. :)
@Star AND Jubi: Taiasaurus does not know. ^^
@Tyler: Angels rule, too. :3
I knew it was wrong :3
Um. THIS WAS IN PROFESSOR LAYTON!
I should know this!
(Sorry for my hyperness. I get hyper after 9:00)
BIG YELLOW ROCK EATER!
I GTG... :(
BYEE
CLEVER, JUBILANCE! XD
We rule heaven, of course we rule!
I get hyper when I get hyper. *nods*
I'm very tired right now for some reason. :)
Bye Jubilance! :(
@Lucy
Which professor layton?
I'm not so much hyper as... Twitchy. :P
xD
Bye, Jubi!
@Jubi: *laughs head off* LOL! :)
FOURS, JUBI!
Answer: The man is a midget and can't reach the button in the elevator for the top floor ordinarily, but when it's raining he can push it using the umbrella. :)
I'm hungry... 🍟
BEFORE MOUNT EVEREST WAS DISCOVERED, WHAT WAS THE TALLEST MOUNTAIN IN THE WORLD?
Hunger is evil. *nods*
Tyler - Uhm, The Lost Future I think...!
Star: ...
My God, that's clever. XD
DAMN YOU, TYLER. :)
Yes. Mount Everest was the tallest whether it had been discovered or not! :)
YES. WHAT TYLER SAID :3
@Star: LOL! xD
I WAS thinking SOMETHING about umbrellas. Wouldn't have got that, though. :P
And, Still Everest? ^^
@Leigh: Thank you. :)
I wish I could claim I had invented it, but nope. :P
Msd. :(
Rock-climbing tomorrow with my friends:) And then Pizza Hut in the evening:) *is happy*
But OMG, my friend is going to meet the actors of Merlin at Comic Con.
Btw, Star, I did send you an email, but something is up with les emails D:
Msd/wbd.
What is better than God, more evil than the devil, poor people have it, rich people need it, and if you eat it you will die?
YAH. YOU EVIL PEOPLE. :)
Umbrella, ella, ella, ay, ay, ay, ay
Hello Ieni :)
Ooh, rock climbing sounds fun!
My comment has disappered!
Where'd it go?
Hello again Anna-Fabi!
Maybe it was sick of all the riddles? :P
@Leigh . . . Nothing?
DAMMIT STAR XD
@Ieni: Hey! Awesome! :)
@Leigh: I don't know!
@'it got sick of all the riddles': XD
Msd. :/
@IENI: ROCKCLIMBING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *screams*
AWESOMENESS! :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
Pizza Hut is cool. :)
ROCKCLIMBING. AWESOMENESS. :)
Hey!
OH MY
I couldn't remeber it!!!
There isn't a Pizza Hut anywhere near me :(
Never went, either. Is it nice? :)
Taia - It might've! C:
[Mutters]
I'm guessing most of you have heard the riddle with a hole in the middle, huh?
Anyway, yes. HELLO AGAIN! I'm almost done with Fabiosaurus!
@Fabi: *frowns* No.
Hello, btw. :)
Pizza Hut is cool. :)
For those of you who don't know, I go rockclimbing.
Mmh.
*yawns* Tired.
I've got a riddle
"I am the beginning of the end,
and the end of time and space.
I am essential to creation,
And surround every place
What am I?"
A hole in a middle?
Do tell, Anna-Fabi!
Star - O.O
COOL.
There are 20 sheep in a field. All but 9 die. How many are left?
Tyler -
Hmm.
Infinity?
Taia - NINE!
*not sure if that one works typed* ^^
@ Lucy *shakes head*
It's easy if you think about it
@Fabi: Riddle with a hole in the middle?
@Tyler: No idea~
@Leigh: Yup. :3
I know!!!:) Am I allowed to say?
I'm scared of heights though D: I've been once before and it was awesome:)
I know Tyler!:)
Still not really here...
The answer to the riddle has a hole in the middle
And some have been known to fall in it
In tennis, it's nothing, but it can be received,
And sometimes a person may win it
Though not seen or heard, it may be perceived
Like princes or bees in a clover
The answer to the riddle has a hole in the middle
And without it, you cannot start over
It's the only riddle I can really think of... I'm rubbish at this!
If you the answer, go ahead leni
Anna-Fabi - My God. That sounds... extremely hard.
Um. A hole? XD
Tyler - Uhm... The universe? Time?
Tyler - It isn't the letter E, is it?
@Tyler: I want to say The Doctor, for some reason. :P
@Fabi: O.O ... A doughnut? :P
Afraid not Lucy
I have 2 more after someone gets it
If you all give up, I'll tell you and say the next one
How much dirt is in a hole that is 3ft wide and 6ft in diameter?
Nope Taia
Leni got it
Okay my next one
"There was a green house,
Inside the green house there was a whit house,
Inside the white house there was a red house,
Inside the red house there were lots of babies.
What is it?"
*6 inches in diameter
Erm, no. Not a hole, not a doughnut.
And I'm really surprised none of you have read the book it's from...and then I'm not surprised.
Ieni & Tyler - what's the answer? :)
No dirt, it's a hole?
@Leigh: Assuming it's empty; none? :P
@Tyler: Ah! 'E'! Clever.
And, What is what?
RIDDLE HINT WARNING
If it helps, put quotation marks on 'clover' and 'over'...
E, like Lucy said:)
Hmm..originally I thought 'love' to Fabi's, but I don't know...
Anna-Fabi and Taia - Yep :)
Ieni - Alright, yay! XD
Me too... First thing that came to mind was a tennis term..
There was a hint?
Maybe I am right:) *hopes*
Wi-Fi will go off soon.
@Fabi: *shakes head* I have no idea.
Which book is it from?
Ieni, you be right! (I waited until someone else got first to tell you this!)
What made you think otherwise? I can explain the riddle.
A man went to a party, drank some punch and went home early. Everyone else at the party drank the punch then subsequently died of food poisoning. Why did the man not die?
The Mysterious Benedict Society, or possibly one of the sequels. I read them, what, three years ago?
Because the food poisoning was in dinner that hadn't been served yet?
I need your help with that riddle ^^^
Can't figure it out :(
*probably four, at this point.
That's clever, Anna-Fabi :)
@Fabi: Oh, right! :3 That's pretty clever~
I've been meaning to read The Mysterious Benedict Society, actually. :3
Also, the Fabiosaurus looks AWESOME. :3
*pauses*
Do I need to ded?
So the hole in the middle is the letter O, but "falling in it" refers to falling in love. Love in tennis is nothing, as you noted, but love can be received or won. It's not something tangible, you can't see 'love' directly. And it's in cLOVEr. Then the last part refers to the O again. You can't start 'over' without an O.
my mom is such a b*tch....
Jubi's not feeling very Jubilant at the moment....
*hugs Jubilance*
Are you alright? :(
I guess so... *hugs back*
[hugs Jubi] :-(
*frowns*
I don't know if it's because of the Riddle with the Hole in the Middle, but I suddenly have 'Why You Fall' by Jenny Owen Youngs in my head. :3
*hugs Jubi, and hands her a cookie*
she litterally stranded me infront of my house with all the doors locked and no key
Parents are stupid. People are stupid. Except for awesome people. But, yeah. Parents are mean. :/ *hugs again*
DNA :)
well my dad's here now... so i gtg
at least he has a key :)
and it was right after she was yelling at me about being disrespectful and naive full of crap
*and
Hm. Deds.
Okay.
I dedicate this page to dinosaurs, pomegranates, bananas, riddles, music, Master Derek, and the population of Blogland, 'cause you're all awesome. (Particularly Jubi, who may not be feeling very jubilant at the moment, but is still jepic.)
And rain, because rain is nice, and it's returned to Wales, now. :)
Bye Jubilance :(
*hugs*
My stepfather told me to see if I had €2 in my room today. I checked and said I didn't. He started screaming at me, saying "There has to be a f*****g €2 in your f*****g room somewhere!" so I checked again. And he screamed up at me "What the f*** are you doing upstairs?! I f*****g told you to come downstairs!" when he never said anything like that :/
What I'm trying to say is, adults are mean sometimes. -.-
Bye Jubi [hugs]
We're not all bad...
Hi Emerald :)
Most adults are. I'm sure you're really nice!
By the way, I'm Leigh. :) I'm new here...
I'm probably the nicest and insaniest adult you will ever meet.
Hey Leigh :)
*hands Leigh a cookie* :/
Adults can be very mean.
But, yes, not all of them.
Em is a wonderful example of an exceptionally un-mean (uh, kind? :P) adult.
Hiya, Em. ;)
I'm just fucking insane, it doesn't count the same as being a shining example Taia lol
*hugs* Heya sweets
My iPad is going all fiddly. *frowns*
xD
Where insane is greater than or equal to awesome. ^^
*hugs back* :)
Being insane makes you awesome though, no? :P
I wonder if there's a way to type the 'greater than or equal to' symbol...?
@Leigh: Darn those iPads and their fiddliness.
Msd. :/
Father Ted... *laughs*
It's new and I'm trying to install iCloud...? XP
It depends on which receiving end you are on Leigh.
Catch me on a good day and yes my insanity is awesome-sauce.
But catch me on a bad day and... he-he, tis not pretty.
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