the room that is spare

I got no (well hardly any - two sentences maybe) writing done today. the part i'm editing is quite badly written and trying to think up better ways to string words together is hard.
but it was a productive-kind-of-day anyway. after business in the village (got some yogitea cold season tea, yum yum yum), i procrastinated writing by reorganizing the spare room, cleaning its window and contemplated making the bed (but the sheets are still wet after i washed them on sunday. yes - don't even think about how long it takes to get stuff dry.
the re-organization was also an effort to give the spare room a more liveable feel. because come next week that will be my writing room. i'm bringing my desk up from cork and moving my computer out of the kitchen. it means i'll have sunlight (and lots of it), warmth (from said sunlight), a good view, a quiet place to work (the fridge gets really loud sometimes), a bed if i get tired - no, i'm just kidding on that last point. but i'm pretty excited about it. the only con is that i might be a bit squashed. i'll have to do my impromptu dancing in the hallway, i think. the spare room definitely doesn't have room for hip-swaying and arm-throwing and body-twirling. unless i dance on the bed, but i think falling over would be too much of a risk.

penelope_stone is over tomorrow. should have some fun with her. i can't wait. that's actually where the writing angst is coming from. i have to get this chapter done before the weekend, and with penelope_stone around i don't know how much writing time i'll have. but its all good. i'd give up a whole month of writing if i got to spend it with her.

gory writing

Ahh, i always was good at describing gore. I've just gotten to the first of the gory bits in my book and it's truly gruesome. I was reading it just there and said: "Awh, gross. This is so awful." And then i laughed. Sometimes i surprise myself with what my imagination comes up with.

That's all i wanted to say. Back to work now.

erm....

Perhaps i shouldn't update my journal right now, but it's been a while and i have some news. Nothing major, but i'd like to have it for posterity.

lordkilljoy and i went over to denise and eamonn for dinner on friday evening. It was a lovely night, got to meet aoife again after so much time. Louise was hyper out (denise assures me she's not like that all the time). had a nice dinner and just chatted for a bit after. Louise's comment was "why don't you play something. Just talking is boring." Heh - i think i probably said that exact same thing when i was younger.

penelope_stone is coming over for her birthday. can't wait for that. she's not coming over because it's her birthday, though - it just happens to be when she'll be in dublin.

i'm moving into the spare room. i will have more light and sunshine to keep me warm (even though it has warmed up so much in the last week - it had got to about 11degrees in here last week, but now it's a balmy 19. and it feels so warm outside as well. i was wearing just a t-shirt and coat out the other day. it's easy to convince yourself that spring is here, but we still have 2 months to go before we can really start looking forward to warm weather.

i'm on chapter 12 this week. getting through it pretty well. just editing now, not rewriting. i think i just one more chapter that i'll rewrite (and i don't know how yet - the original is just too out of character for zachery). ooh, wait - maybe one and a half. but anyway - i'm getting there. in the home straight now (one month to go).

right - i don't have much else to say.

snow creed

Snow is great. the light in here seems a bright as it is in summer thanks to the snow reflecting it all in the window. i have more energy than i've had in ages. i'm listening to my dancy playlist and bopping around the place. it's great.
but there's one problem. the chapter i'm editing at the moment is meant to be depressing and that is the last thing i feel right now and i don't want to get into that mood. i don't want to put on some sad music and kill my energy buzz.

I'm playing assassin's creed II at the moment. it is 20 million times better than the first game (and that was a game i played and finished twice). the game play is more advanced, the story is way better (it actually has a story, as opposed to the first game where it was a series of the same scene over and over with a different target) there's more to do - around the cities but also outside of the main story (like renovate a whole town, manage finances, do extreme-mini dungeon crawls, read loads of back-story). It's fantastic. I think i'll be playing this game for ages. Mostly because i am a completionist and i want to collect all the collectibles and get every piece of armour, do up my house and clear every marker from every city.
I also like the way it staggers the stages of learning stuff. It shows you how to do something and lets you get really comfortable with it before introducing more stuff. and if you forget something there are loads of hints that pop up to remind you of things.

So that's it really. i had a really good christmas at home and down in kerry. went to ross bay with the kayakers for new years (and went for a walk along the beach at 1:30am - the moon was full and shining on the snowy hills across the bay - it was beautiful).

right - need to get today's scene done.