so.
monday, widely regarded as the shittest of all days.

sorry to hear about the theft pol, if there's anything you need, like food, or a cup of sugar or summat, i'm just around the corner in lovely st kilda now and i offer my services.

been ill :( much lying in bed, feeling nauseous and then getting up to wander along gray street to find the doctors. still, i've been meaning to go for a while and talk about things so now's as good a time as any.


the stories a little like that mr fuzz.....
without the reanimated corpses, or the midgets, or christmas eve. i read the script of it's a wonderful life, and it's incredibly tight. i wur well impressed, and it gave me some ideas. which was good. unfortunately i've pretty much scrapped a lot of what i've written in the rewriting phase because of it :( just because i realised how important it was to setup certain things, mostly that you couldn't just leap straight into the suicide part....which was what i was doing...so i've cleaned it the beginning....well, almost...it's a lot tighter now and the main character *might* be becoming more sympathetic. i love the 'angel' character though :) he was a lot of fun to write.

you almost got the title right though, it'[s got the working title of "not such a wonderful life." i think i like yours better though. it's not going to be called that though.....maybe gives too much away :)

oh well. who'd be a writer, worrying about imaginary people and their lives.

um.

so i've been looking at part time university courses i can do, both here and back home. i like the look of the RMIT course. there's also this at the cae (think fuzz is doing this one) and there's this back home at strathclyde university, where i've already been :)

and

i made this plan:

this month, and next month: research victorian england, write short things, make them good and plan the overall structure of the next novel.
august, september, october: write the second novel. aiming for around 20,000 words per month.
november: do the whole nanowrimo thing again. i had an idea for what it should be about....bloody brain.
december: apply to places and see what happens.

by strange coincidence that's also around the time my contract with the wonderful, supportive, financially and creatively rewarding infogrames melbourne house is up.