meme

Jan. 13th, 2016 08:18 am
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Going round my friends at the moment:

Rules: go to page 7 of your WIP, skip to the 7th line, share 7 sentences, and tag 7 more writers to continue the challenge.

Nick, on the other hand, was now consciously aware of where that stray thought in the toilet had come from.

_Don't go there, Browne._

He was being entirely practical in his next question. "Are you living in?" Nothing to do with wondering which bedroom Ben might be using.

"Yes. It was by far the most practical option, as commuting certainly _wasn't_ a practical option."


You're supposed to tag another 7 writers. I don't do that part of memesheepage, being averse to that sort of chain letter emotional blackmail.
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Gacked from [personal profile] lexin 

Bold the ones you have and use at least once a year, italicize the ones you have and don't use, strike through the ones you have had but got rid of.

"I wonder how many pasta machines, breadmakers (you will have to prise my breadmaker from my cold dead hands), juicers, blenders, deep fat fryers, egg boilers, melon ballers, sandwich makers, pastry brushes, cheese knives, electric woks, miniature salad spinners, griddle pans, jam funnels, meat thermometers, filleting knives, egg poachers, cake stands, garlic crushers, martini glasses, tea strainers, bamboo steamers, pizza stones, coffee grinders (which actually gets used for grinding whole spices, not coffee), milk frothers, piping bags, banana stands, fluted pastry wheels, tagine dishes, conical strainers, rice cookers, steam cookers, pressure cookers, slow cookers, spaetzle makers, cookie presses, gravy strainers, double boilers (bains marie), sukiyaki stoves, ice cream makers, and fondue sets languish dustily at the back of the nation's cupboards."


I'm not counting a few items which were lost or abandoned during inter-continental moves and not replaced. I'd still be using them if I had replaced them, which  is why I didn't  -- I'm at high risk for diabetes and I don't need the temptation offered by a deep fat fryer or a toastie maker.

The juicer and blender came with the heavy duty food processor, which does get used regularly. I wanted them available in case I had another bout of dental woes necessitating a pureed diet, but fortunately so far I haven't needed to use them.

The piping bag -- I haven't used my piping bag in years. That's because I do my once a year cake decorating elsewhere and use someone else's...

On the other hand, I do have a number of foodie kitchen gadgets not mentioned in the above list, many of which have not been seen outside the cupboard since I moved into this house. Some of them are simply too difficult to use with the level of RSI weakness I have these days, others are fairly pointless if you're not feeding several people and thus preparing food in bulk (my mandoline is brilliant if I'm making food for ten, but a waste of time on food for two). I haven't got that many which were bought for faddish purposes and then abandoned, but I do have to admit to a shameful weakness for the Lakeland Plastics catalogue that would have led me astray had I had more money and kitchen space fifteen years ago. :-)

WIP meme

Aug. 29th, 2012 09:42 am
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Being a memesheep here, and following a bunch of other rascafarians in blethering about the WIP. The original set of questions doesn't quite work for mine, because some of them assume that the W is no longer IP as a first draft. So I shall adapt to circumstance.

1. What is the working title of your book? Taxman. Because the protagonist is an employee of Her Majesty's Customs & Revenue, and this does factor into how he ultimately deals with the bad guy. The pen is mightier than the sword, especially when it's wielded by one of the Queen's counting men.

2. Where did the idea come from for the book? This was one of the ones where a scene simply turned up in my head and insisted that I write it, without any obvious outside trigger. And from my blog post at the time: I'm still trying to work out what the book is. It started with a very specific image, and I've got that down now in the 10,000 words I'd written by the end of last week. And I've got a rough idea of some of the things that happen later, why this fairy is running around modern London, why someone kidnapped him and how he drew that person's attention, and how the human who helped him when he escaped will be able to make sure he's permanently safe. But it hasn't gelled yet. And worse, I'm not sure that it's going to have enough sex to appeal to the erotic romance market, or that it's going to have enough plot to make 100,000 words so that I can try inflicting it on a fantasy publisher.

It's grown some more plot since then. :->

3. What genre does your book fall under?
Urban fantasy m/m romance. If I had any commercial sense I'd have written it as het and tried to sell it to a Big 6 publisher -- it would have changed some of the character dynamics but it would still have worked. Although I'd probably be told to change it from femdom to maledom, and one of the reasons I write m/m is that I don't like maledom.

4. Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency? These are not the only options. :-) You don't need an agent to submit to small presses. You don't even need an agent to send a query letter to the Big 6, although you'd better be able to write a really good query letter. I've never had an agent even though I have a string of commercially published novels, because my genre is largely published by specialist small presses who take over-the-transom. If I wanted to sell to the Big 6, I'd look for an agent.

5. How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript? I'm still writing it. Also, define "how long". I started writing this in 2007 when I was mugged by the aforementioned scene. I turned out 10,000 words in 9 days, and then left it to ferment while I worked on something else. I wrote L&M 2, started on L&M 3, and then got hit by bad health for several years and didn't write at all. Picked it up again last year, then couldn't write at all for several months earlier this year. Elapsed time, five years. Time actually spent working on this manuscript? Probably about four months so far.

6. What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest? Fairies! Sex! The Civil Service triumphing over evil rich bastards who think they're above the law! What more could you possibly want?

[exit, bleating]
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Don't faint... I indulged in meme sheepage.
I'm not putting the graphic here, because it sears my eyes. But apparently I would be a Democrat if I were a US voter.

You are a Social Liberal (63% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (28% permissive)
You are best described as a: Democrat
You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness. loc: (49, -82)
modscore: (17, 38)
raw: (2135)

This is not a huge surprise, since my politics are more or less One Nation Tory, or in other words by UK standards I'm a right-wing liberal. Of course, I do know Americans who would consider this proof that I'm a GodlessCommie(TM) :-)

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Aug. 26th, 2005 01:20 pm
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I don't do memes. But I *can't* do the latest meme, for I am the HTML Hater and refuse to have cute icons. I have but two on this account, and three on the other, of which two are the same as on this one. And two of my icons are in fact text-only. And thus the only character icon I have is the rasfc cat-vacuuming icon. So unless you think that the cat and the vacuum cleaner are engaged in an act of sexual congress, you can forget about the idea of me doing the "pair the characters in your icons" meme.
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I don't usually go in for memes, especially more or less randomly generated "quizzes", but it was difficult to resist this morning's which science fiction writer are you?. Especially after [livejournal.com profile] pnh pointed out that one of the questions was "how big of an asshole are you?", clearly indicating that the quiz compiler knows our tribe only too well... Anyway, it seems that I am

Hal Clement (Harry C. Stubbs)

A quiet and underrated master of "hard science" fiction who, among other things, foresaw integrated circuits back in the 1940s.

which was not unwelcome, but a bit of a surprise, given what's typically hard in *my* sf. Though not as much of a surprise as it was to [livejournal.com profile] autopope when he discovered that he is secretly Robert Heinlein. :-)

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