Apparently I'll be appearing at the Imagine Festival in London this Monday, the 17th. I had a blast last year, where I showed clips from movies, but I'm not entirely sure what I'll do this time. I might read from one of the new short stories. I'd read from the ninth book, but there is nothing from the early sections finished, and anything read from later on would be a spoiler, so...
Oh, and speaking of Book 9, I have just reached the 75,000 word mark. Judging by this, the finished book will be at least 100,000 words, which is Mortal Coil length, and could be longer. LSODM will stay the longest, I reckon, simply because of the massive amount of characters involved. But because most of those characters are now DEAD, Book 9 allows me a smaller, more intimate story — while remaining as heart-rendingly traumatic as anything I've written before.
And speaking of heart-rendingly traumatic, I've actually written the last few chapters. Not to completion, of course, but I've written enough to know what happens, and how it ends, and who lives and who dies, and all I can say is...
I am MEAN.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
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Oh god... this is getting weird. Really weird. :D
A blue bird ate a stone and wept because he had eaten a magic stone that could fly and because it hurt.
DAMN IT.
*laughs*
Don't tell me that was right! :D
no i'm not that heartless silente thanks
Ein Ei wurde eine Wand gedrückt, das Ei hatte einen sehr großen Fall, niemand das Ei auf allen beheben könnte, aber wer das Ei die Wand stieß sich
Sorry but that last thing doesn't make sense. Not at all. You won, Silente^^
Wait at I never called you heartless its just you were talking about 1D and Little mix concerts last night so I though it might be that
It was meant to say An egg was pushed off a wall, the egg had a very great fall, no one could fix the egg at all but who pushed the egg off the wall?
It was about Humpty Dumpty
What are you guys doing?!
I was testing miths english
Oh... okaaaay... :D
Um, basically, I am trying to translate weird stuff from German into English... :D
:/
Have I met you before? I think I have, but I'm not completely sure?
nvm
No I don't think were met before Narvi so HEYY! HI NEW PERSON WHO IVE NEVER MET BEFORE! HI HOW ARE YOU"
Mara have I upset you? I'm sorry if I have. Plz be happyz
What's on the first of March?
I was September Silver earlier, so we may have met... Or maybe I was Hallie Ella?
Ich kletterte eine Bohne. Eine sehr große Bohne. Es war ein Riese an der Spitze, so dass ich raubte ihm lief dann weg und tötete ihn, als er mich verfolgt
Nope not met you before..
Hello.
Hi Dragona!
*looks at Silente*
*tilts head*
Hmmm.....
Anyway, I'm September Silver, general Mycroft enthusiast :)
Hi, Dragona! I haven't see you for a long time!
Hey dragona how are you?
no. i'm not upset.
just broken.
sorry i'm gone
You're not broken until you give up, Mara. We decide when we break.
What's wrong mith? Can you not figure I out?
Highlights narvis comment agreed.
i've already given up.
it's all my fault.
oh my fucking god.
sorry
i'm after having four panic attacks today so i'll probably have another one soon bye
Hello everyone!
I'm good, thanks Silente. I just started playing Mass Effect 2 for the third time... I have never played as a female-Commander Shepard before (since you can customise your character and stuff) and I haven't been Renegade either (Renegade = making rather amusing, but slightly bitchy, choices), so I decided what the hell and did both.
So far the best thing I've done is killing a guy in an attempt to sabotage a gunship he was repairing. He was working on it and then Shepard said, "You work too hard" and jabbed him in the back with an electric tool. Oh well. :)
I can't, Silente. You won again...
You commented on this blog. You reloaded the page after you said you'd left. You're still talking. You haven't given up. Oh, and the next time you're having a panic attack, start doing your multiplication tables. It calms me down when I have panic attacks.
It said I climbed up a bean. A very tall bean. There was a giant at the top so i robbed him then ran away and killed him when he followed me
@dragona you and that game
That sounds great, Dragona XD
I just found out that I am very very bad at reading notes. Gah.
I want to get to the part where I get to punch a journalist.
Silente, yes, I know I play it too much :P
Last one (I made it easier) Ich aß eine Melone Samen und jetzt ist mein Bauch ungewöhnlich Runde
You punch a journalist at one point? That's...okay then
Punch? Pfft. Kick him in the balls.
Punching journalists is not okay! I AM a journalist! Kinda... :D
(I love how we had three completely different reactions to the journalist thing XD)
@Silente: I ate melon seed and now my stomach is (???).
No idea, sorry...
Yeah, but I'm the only one who doesn't want the jounalist to get hurt... :D
Yeah punch...erm... well not a vamp, Cuz that's me....not a journalist, Cuz hats Mith.... punch a dickfaced jerk man slag!
I ate a melon seed and now my bellies unusually round
Throughout the 3 Mass Effect games there's a journalist who tries to make you look bad on camera. The paragon (good) option is to put them in their place. The renegade option is just to punch them.
Gah, then I would have been right! I was just not sure cause it sounded strange...
Well, I guess it's ok to punch mean journalists^^
That sounds so fun XD
You should take that camera, start filming, and then shove it up his ass
Brb guys
Am back had to fix a charger issue
I hate those
Yeah they're annoying
Why is it still two weeks school until I have a week off??
Why is it still two weeks school until I have a week off??
Because schools stupid.... speaking of I think I have homework due tommorow
And why did my comment double?
Hmmm....brb guys, need to check something!
Okay, Silente!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TgTLJXoD_o
Those are some of the renegade things... they're funny. ^^
Okay I'm gonna be a tad distant...
I'm afraid I'll have to go now...
See you guys!
*whistles a long note. 3.482 centimetres to be precise*
#ChaseForBook9
Bye Mith!
GAH just got my Internet... And I finished some English homework sooo
[She stretched out her hand and gently pushes the door closed]
Hey Fabs!
Booo! I'm not gone! Yet.
But I might be distant...
Heya Mith!
I'm a little distant as well..
[hugs Adra, Mith and anyone else who is here]
Hi Adra! :)
Fabiiii! *hugs back*
What's everyone up to?
If nothing's happening, I might write a bit here. I hope no one minds :)
-
*She wakes up with a yawn, rubbing her eyes, her blanket wrapped around her*
*Scoots herself near the fire, cracking an egg over a pan and setting that over the flame, holding her belly carefully, sitting close to preserve her warmth*
Fabi sorry for poofing last night the wind knocked power out so i gave up when it didnt come on right away. I think by 12:15 i gave up
I'm going food shopping so wbd for a while
K Zaf!
It snowed a bit last night... It looks lovely :)
Why can't we have snow in Germany? We got 15 °C yesterday! Fifteen!
I don't mind at all, Adra.
It's okay, Zaf, I needed to sleep anyway. If you want to continue at any point, just let me know.
Whoa... That's actually pretty warm, considering.
I'll send you some, if you want.
Thanks, Fabu :)
Yeah, it is...
Do send me some, Adra! I want snoooooow! :D
The only thing is, we're supposed to get freezing rain tomorrow, so everything is going to ice over...? :/
But yeah.
*Blows wind over to Germany* Whoooooosssshshhhhhh~
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*She meticulously takes her eggs onto her plate, and with some bread, eats both of them, leaning back into her pillows and watching the forest and the ground far below*
Bbs,breakfast,
SNOW!
*dances around in the falling snowflakes*
Okay Moss
My mom loathes snow with the passion of a thousand burning moons.
It's a little annoying when the plows push it all in front of your driveway, though...
*Shrugs*
-
Dinner, bb later...
Bye Mith as well!
Hmm...
*Holding up the fort*
2-3" monday into tuesday
Ew :/
Back, but don't know for how long.
Okay- *hugs if you go*
I think I'll be here for at least half an hour, Adra^^
Oh- alright.
So how are things?
Back. [hugs]
Hi Moss! Wb. Breakfast ok?
Fine - again. I think...
Yeah. Leftover pretzels.
Dad made them for lunch yesterday, but they weren't ready until 3:30, and by then most of us had already eaten. Otherwise, there wouldn't have been extras!
Oh, right- sorry, I feel a little waterlogged.
Without the water.
Ah- sounds good! I don't really care for pretzels except the cinnamon kind... With dippy cheese.
Those are the bomb.com
These had poppy seeds and salt. Sometimes he makes cinnamon ones, though.
Fun fact about poppy seeds- in a drugs test they can make you come up positive.
I like lemon poppyseed muffins
Weird.
So do I.
I like lemon in general, actually.
I don't care for lemon bars that much.
Lemon sour patch kids are like drugs to me, I could eat that, and movie popcorn with lots of butter over it for the rest of my life
Sorry for poofing... got to fix some things..
No problem, Mith!
My writing skills have all gone.
That is a fact.
Popcorn. :-)
Yeah, I've been feeling the same lately...
Everything I've been trying to write is just...stuck.
Completely stuck.
I have no idea what to do.
No, that's wrong. I've got lots of ideas but I don't know how to write what I want to write. You know what I mean? Cause I can't explain it in a better way, sorry...
I have a couple things that could help you two?
You could try splurging out your thoughts. Just write, even if it doesn't make sense- even if it doesn't make a sentence. Just go for it, you know? Just take words, don't even try to make it a story. Just write.
There is always reading or watching a really well-crafted work for inspiration and it might make you feel like you ought to do something.
Make a list of things that might be good stories?
Make, like, goth-Disney princess stories or something (like an AU of something)
Just summarize a story that you know- no matter what it is,write down as much as you know.
Poetry, especially if you pick an era that you like (ie: Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Post- Modernism), and write in the style of a person or story? (Mimicry, basically)
Or you just try to make something new :)
Movie popcorn makes me want to cry :P
Yeah ^^^ up there are just things that I might do... You can't force writing, and you can't force yourself into a mindset where your brain just might not have the energy to go, so you have to work with it a little
anyone on?
Aw, thanks Adra! *hugs*
Okay, I'll try!
My problem is just that I have started some sort of short Sherlock fanfiction but I have no idea how it could end...
Mm... Thanks for the advice.
Hello, Rueben!
And np!
Mith- I wouldn't really know how that feels, because I usually have a starting point, and an endpoint, and I fill the inside with useless things..
Again, it goes to the writing without thought- I rarely think about where the story is going, I just go, you know?
I usually try to do it like that, Adra, but this time I just have no endpoint... which is getting quite annoying. I guess I'll just stop for now and try again tomorrow^^
Hi Rueben! :) Have we met?
That's always another option, too *nods*
Okay yay back
Wb Zaf
Sorry, my laptop charge was jumping between 5% and 100%, and I had to figure out what was going on.
Very strange, Fabs...
Hey guys am back!
I'll have to go soon-ish...
Hey Silente :)
*Hugs Mith if she goes*
Hey Adra how are you?
Aaaaaand I'm gone... see you guys! *hugs everyone*
Bye Mith [hugs]
Hi Tempest. :-)
I'm... Well, I'm not sure. I'm doing well at being calm, and I hope I will remain that way :P
I'm also craving spaghetti with red sauce and turkey.
*Foams*
you?
Bye Mith!
Hey moss how are you?
CAN ANYONE PLEASE GET ME SPAGHETTI WITH RED SAUCE
PLEASE
THIS IS WHAT I WANT IN LIFE
I'm fine Adra, I don't think I've ever craved turkey, mind you I've never had it so... *shrugs*
Well, ground turkey. We eat ground turkey instead of ground beef in most of our foods....
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Ahh okay then. Do you not have spaghetti in your house?
Yes! And I'm more than certain we have red sauce as well, HOWEVER, the ground turkey is iffy...
And if we go to the store I might get sidetracked and get a lot of snacks
not that i have a problem with that.
Well, if you go to the shop and don't look around, just go straight to the ground turkey an buy JUST THAT then your craving will be satisfied, plus self control is a good thing to practice..
Yay we are in the contendings for a medal in partner skating our one team is in first and we find out after tonorrow's free skate
Yay USA
Well done. Either our athletes are shit or the Russians saw the gay mountain advert we made...
Sorry I wasn't on then, I had to finish a homework thing! but I'm back for now, as its four thirty in the morning where I am, and no, I don't think we met before, Mithria!
Oh wait your american, you won't have seen the gay mountain ad will you?
What are you talking about, Silente?!
Type 'gay mountain advert, into youtube and click on the top video. :-) You'll understand.
Silente you've got a group in the skating. I was going by flags and only saw your flag. I saw Germany too. No Aussies or Kiwis
Ah so they're not that angry
Oh. My. God.
*dies* Gay mountain.....okay you guys top screwed up commercials
It started airing a bit ago. I remember the first time I saw it I was like 'omg what the fuck?' Now its just really catchy gtg 4 T bbs
is it the one where this guy starts singing gay mountain? because that's all I could find
For tea..sorry I really just can't get this image out of my head i mean nothing rude any Engliminions
When you guys say going for tea I just picture you guys sitting at a table drinking tea talking posh! I'm so sorry I sound totaly American
Yeah Rueben its the one with the guy singing.....*nods* im gonna show my friend the Brits top it
Zaf, that's what I do sometimes! anyway, we shouldn't be talking together, we should be bickering, and preparing our sanctuaries for battle!
Bye Silente!
-making rice-
luckily not to many Australian mages were not in Roarhaven when the warlocks and Darquess attacked!
Okay, I really need to go, its getting late (or early, if you must call it), and I'm really tired!
Okay! Bye Rueben!
Okay I here again guys and Adra by having T I mean having the evening meal. Infact don't tell anyone but I don't really like tea, it makes me feel sick, infact it nearly made me puke once...anyway how did you like the by mountain ad?
No wait not Adra I meant Zaf. Sorry wrong name
Er guys..are you still on? Did I shock you into stunned silence with the tea thing? Hello? Were you both simutaniously murdered?
Yeah, Rhy says that a lot... But he spells it out, so the abbreviation just threw up off.
Oh good your not dead. So did you like the gay mountain advert?
I haven't had a chance to look it up, but I might later
You seriously should as soon as you can. Its actually FABULOUS. However I think it killed Zaf....or she blew herself up...
Oh o wait I think she's showing it her friends...
Possibly.
Ah its amazing anyway bbs, we get pancakes now! Yum!
K!
Watch it while I'm gone!
Hello...?
I am sorry I could not watch that all the way through...
I imagine many people would me insulted by it.
Hello, Rhy-
*be
Hey Adra! Insulted by what?
The "Gay Mountain" commercial. It was... Well, it was a stab at Sochi, but the way that they over-did everything is certainly going to be insulting to many people.
Because all homosexuals aren't flamboyant and 'faaaaabulous!'
Hey guys I'm back. Yeah the advert was basically channel 4 taking a dig at Russia for being homophobic
Oh.....Many people /would/ be insulted by that.
I've had a long week and feel like going into a coma. Just me or is school becoming more painful?
*not all
not aren't
Shoot :P
((Russia sound like twats then))
There are many countries that do have anti-gay laws...
I dunno, I'm giving it a century tops before everyone gets their A-game. Unless it's a theocratic government, I'm not totally sure.
And I'm sorry to hear that, Rhyd
Yeah school is seeming more tireing recently. Especially since the government scared the s*** out of me by proposing long school hours (10 hours a day, YIKES!) and shorter holidays. Seriously terrified me
I think I hate school. Genuinely. Mun said this morning I was kinda bitter. And so did Corvo. And dad mentioned I seemed to be in a kinda mood....school has broken me
Cheer up, holidays soon. (At least here they're soon)
I dedicate this page to true friends.
Because they are always there for ya. That's all I really need to say I think
*Raises glass* to true friends, may they always be there for each other
*raises glass as well*
To true friends!
Wbd/msd/may not be here
I want to go prospecting sometime..
Leaving now bye!
Bye Tempest!
Since no one seems to be here...
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*Adra finds herself downstairs in the lab, having the floors all cleaned up, she finds more and more alienated each time that she is there- too much has happened within it's walls, and the negative energy is more overbearing than homely*
*Yet, she finds herself there anyway, curled up on the couch with a sketchbook, drawing the straight lines of her alchemist city- the walls broken and crumbling, as they had been the day previous, and it broke her heart to see it like that*
*Sips some tea, concentrating on the drawing*
H jikq es ucapij lq zu oqes u lnge xvz qfh.
Wb, Moss
Hi. [hugs]
Msd. My sister and I were going to do something, but then some statistics programming thing happened.
Oh, I hate when things get interrupted :/
*hugs*
Hello, though, for however long you can be here :)
I have arrived but give me a sec, I'm just finishing a Goodreads review but I AM HERE!!
Hello, Em!
Yeah, same.
Especially since she can program any time she wants to, since it's schoolwork and all. and we only have limited free sister-time...
Hi Em. [hugs]
It's sad how well I know that feeling. *Hugs tightly* Sometimes you have to make the best of what you have.
Hello everyone!
Sorry I haven't been around much, I just feel like I'm starting to intrude on things these last few days.
I hope you're all well!
Okay, so my mum is organising this thing for work, and we had to help her. I found out on the the jobs was sorting out beads and I immediately wanted to do that. I got rather excited, actually.
I had a pot of beads and I was filling a paint pallet with them. I organised them according to shape. Sometimes you'd just pick them out, but more often I found myself slicing up necklaces and pulled the beads off or ripping up bracelets or threading apart sequin chains.
Eight hours I spent doing that today.
Eight hours.
Six hours straight, then I had to go for dinner.
It was a horrible addiction. I needed to go to the toilet, I couldn't bring myself to get up. I wanted to put music back on after dinner, but I didn't have the willpower to look away for a second to reach for my headphones and phone right next to me.
I imagine that is what it feels like to be OCD, but OCD is permanent. I have the joy of knowing my cravings to sort out beads will end when I've finished sorting the jar out. :P
(I'm down to the last scrabbly bits at the bottom. We had to go to bed and whatnot, plus my sister made me a really pretty bead star and I got distracted raving over that.)
After four or five hours, my mum came and helped me, and then my brother joined in, and my mum left, and then my brother got bored and left, and I was still sitting there.
I didn't move out of that spot for six hours straight.
. . .
I never want to do drugs. :P Addiction is scary.
#ChaseForBookNine
No problem, Em.
And I read the first and last sentences of your paragraph (as I always do before reading through) and laughed, Star.
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