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Fascinating talk by Elizabeth Gilbert

Go and watch - she has a lot to say that makes a lot of sense.

But it does leave me with one question - ( the burning question... )

 On printing up the novel and going through it "one last time" to look for typos, grammatical mistakes and mis-used words:



It's better to find them now rather than a week after I have sent it off.
It's better to find them now rather than a week after I have sent it off.
It's better to find them now rather than a week after I have sent it off.
It's better to find them now rather than a week after I have sent it off.
It's better to find them now rather than a week after I have sent it off.
It's better to find them now rather than a week after I have sent it off.
It's better to find them now rather than a week after I have sent it off.
It's better to find them now rather than a week after I have sent it off.

It's going to be a stressful (long) weekend...

R

I forgot that I was using actual computer word count.

Yup. I iz being prufeshunal writir!

Ignore all previous whining about the length of the novel. All is well.

(Although I may still expand a bit. It's just under 74k)

I really should think about what I am doing once in a while in terms of the REAL WORLD.

I should be writing!

This is what comes of having a social life!

This week my social life for six months is crammed into six days. Then I have a week off. Then another period of six months in a week. The lead up to Christmas is SO much fun.

R

ps I got this

 

well... Ryanair mainly.

Or air travel in general.

We seriously discuss just getting the ferry and taking the car with us when traveling to the UK in future. We had a lovely visit with family, we even had a nice car from the rental company (a very very nice car as it turned out as I had underestimated the "Vauxhall Vectra or equivalent and we ended up with something equivalent to a limo by comparison to what we usually drive) but it is just SO MUCH HASSLE!!!!!!!

Quote of the week: "For every civil liberty we surrender, the terrorists win a little more". Yes, perhaps not a popular view. Fire away!

That said, "they" tried to blow up Glasgow airport today. I mean, GLASGOW AIRPORT????  Ok, if they are architecture students maybe, but...

Anyway, I don't do politics, especially when I am tired, it is late, I lost my mobile phone in an airport today, my daughter threw up, we all had massive rows, tried to get into a war of words with airport security over whether a handbag is considered as your piece of hand luggage (solution, from less bolshy airport security man: put it in your pull along - sigh! Logic!), I hate bucket-air travel and delays and... well, basically everything else associated with air travel in this day and age).

Boats! That's the way of the future. Big f-off boats!

And I missed the finale of the Dr. Who Series! Someone must pay for that. David Tennant, John Barrowman and John Sims. Missed! Home too late! Thanks to delays. And air travel.

Boats! From now on. Unless completely impossible! Due to seas drying up!

So, too tired to think. To peed off to be coherent anyway. So much writing to do and in a state so not doing it.

I'm going to buy myself a laptop though. that decision has been made. Sooner than anyone else thinks. Ah-ha!

And a new phone, of course. How I am going to retrieve all those numbers however is anyone's guess.

Tomorrow I may find the time and self control to sit down and tell you what happened in England.

Hmm... better go to bed.

Stress unloaded. Sigh. I do feel a little better. Then I think about the journey and I start to get angry all over again.

R