Blargh argh argh argh
Otherwise known as why the hell am I awake? It's 03:15 as I write this. Decent, civilised people are in bed. Indecent but still civilised people are in bed with someone else, doing things of a biological nature. Whatever. I am not them. I am in my living room, blogging this stream-of-alleged-conciousness to you, people [...]
Day the second
Aha, so the Starbucks opposite Richmond station does have wi-fi. It's just the one further down the road that is made entirely out of fail. Stream-of-consciousness tumblogging again this morning as I'm about to head off for day two of Bert's workshop. Today we're going to be shooting in and around Richmond's parks, archways and alleyways, trying [...]
Quick tumbly musings
I had a long and involved conversation with my friend Michelle last night about the nature of consciousness, the existence of free will and the need for a story to be happy (or at least not entirely bleak) before it gets bleak. I'll expand on these later (if I remember) but I'm now heading off [...]
That was the year that was
It’s interesting how the number of people subscribing to this blog dropped by almost half after I published this mosiac of my photos from the anti Prop8 protest in Boston and this rant about the Bishop of Lancaster. In actual fact it looks like FeedBurner can no longer see the number of Livejournal-based subscribers to [...]
That ohshitohshitohshit feeling
Happy Goth Christmas, everyone. I’m exhausted. It’s been a long two weeks and, though I was supposed to be going to the the Canonical Halloween party at Canonical Towers tonight I decided that, due to lack of sleep and general grumpiness on my part, I would be better off concentrating on finishing the Halloween story [...]
Brain sucking internet sucks brain
I came down to the mezzanine level of the hotel – about the only place I can get a semi-reliable wi-fi signal – with a plan to absorb some of the internet (or at least deal with some emails and try to clear some of the 1000+ unread Google Reader items) and I’ve managed somehow [...]
Message in the sand
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 247 Written by my fianceé on Morecambe beach.
If you’re seeing this…
… then the DNS records have propagated correctly and your RSS feed reader is now slurping from the new grahambinns.com server, which is just hunky dory as far as I’m concerned. I’ve been working on this version of things for a while. Besides a re-skin – which taught me a lot about how I should [...]
The problem of getting things done
The trouble I find with projects, particularly daily projects, is that they're bloody hard to keep doing sometimes. Mur Lafferty has had the problem with The News From Poughkeepsie. JR Blackwell, who's doing a 365 days photography project has also encountered it. And now I'm really hitting a wall with my own daily project, 360-odd [...]
At the request on one Sir Warren Ellis
I'm posting this to remind all you good people about FreakAngels, a weekly web comic written by King Ellis and drawn by Paul Duffield. It's updated every Friday at noon UK time (UTC +1, if you need to know). This week's episode is #15. That'll be all. Go back to your existences.
Neil Gaiman on second drafts
In a recent blog post, Neil Gaiman discusses the topic of second drafts: The second draft is where the fun is. In a first draft, you get to explode. The objective (at least for me) is to get it down on paper, somehow. Battle through the laziness and the not-enough-time and the this-is-rubbish and everything [...]
The news from Poughkeepsie
Slightly behind the times, I thought I should spread the word of the News from Poughkeepsie, a new project from the Mighty Mur Lafferty. To quote the Murster herself: I’m going to blog an idea a day for 1 year. It will usually be in the form of a blog post, but it may be [...]
Je retourne!
Back from a pleasant if wind-blown weekend in Edinburgh. Much to catch up on, including eight days worth of Three Hundred and Sixty-odd Days posts (narrowly avoiding FAIL there, I think), not to mention the scribbling that I haven't been doing. Still, some things are looking up. The break has recharged my writing brain juices [...]
More photography than writing
I've just noticed that the photography category on this blog has 105 entries and the writing category has 130 (including this post). For a blog that's supposed to be primarily about writing that's not so good. I'll have to do more writing to make sure that photography doesn't take over. That means that I can't [...]
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Rest in Peace
From BBC News: British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke has died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90… Sir Arthur's vivid – and detailed – descriptions of space shuttles, super-computers and rapid communications systems were enjoyed by millions of readers around the world. He was the author of more than 100 fiction [...]
In the loop, honest
Wow. Once again, I'm late in getting on a particular train of thought. That's not unusual, true, but I should have been slightly quicker about it this time round because a) it's something in which I'm really, really interested and b) one of my friends, whose blog I read, posted about it and I didn't [...]
Miss, Miss, he’s making stuff up Miss!
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 15 I was out of inspiration tonight, photographically speaking. Luckily, the brainjuice was flowing in the direction of prose (though you’ll note that I took long enough out of it to get this shot, with a rather precariously balanced camera). That’s the [...]
Hope Springs
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three-hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 11 Note the lack of a sunset. Weather happened. This is north west England: weather often happens. So I left the camera and tripod pretty much alone and picked up the pen and paper for the first time in about two and-a-half months. [...]
Juiced
I'm waiting for Ubuntu JeOS (pronounced Juice, by the way) to download at the moment so that I can do some virtualised stuff. Well, more accurately, so that I can do some virtualised stuff without having to wait for ever and ever and ever for X to start when I don't need it. Since JeOS [...]
No mojo, no longer
My writing mojo appears to have deserted me. Which, whilst not being the first time it's happened, true, and whilst it certainly won't be the last, is disconcerting nonetheless. A couple of weeks ago I was flying with novel-the-second (which has now taken on the title of After Life, though I'm not sure that that [...]
I know that feeling
Whilst I feel his pain, it's good to know in some ways that Neil Gaiman suffers the same problems of the rest of us, even the massively inexperienced and by comparison untalented ones (Link): … I am still somewhere in the hell that's either Chapter 5 or Chapter 6 of THIS DAMNED BOOK which seems [...]
Acceptability
A thought occurs to me as I earwig on the group of A-Level drama students sat across the way from me, practicing the the plays that they've written that they're going to perform next week. The thought is this: When we're young, and especially when we're in education, it's acceptable for us to write plays, [...]
