Pasta with a chicken oxo cube

400 words added to Dearest . . . tonight. Getting nearer towards the target, but I still don't think I'm going to make it.

Not a great deal of time tonight. But, to bulk this entry up:

'Last night . . .' he started. Looks like he doesn't want to say it was a mistake, Ki thought bitterly. Would he feel better if I told him it didn't happen? He looked at the door--through the door--and his face creased. Across the hallway his girlfriend was probably still asleep, but if she did see him doing the walk of shame in his dinner jacket . . . 'I love Erica.'

Later . . .

The Morning After

Was really pleased with myself before I logged on this evening. I had written another 8oo words to Dearest . . . and that was 'evening only' stuff, so I felt quite productive today. I can't help but feel that I'm cheating tho'--it's essentially old stuff that I'm rewriting (chapter 4 is the old chapter 2). Those 8oo words aren't really new, they're just slightly better.

Came to a block at about half nine and had to stop on the WiP for a while. I considered writing another tale for the The Serendip, but didn't have any ideas. All I managed to write down was Kevn's Fourth - a Tale of the Serendip by Kevin Jones. Already I like it better than my previous three tales ;)

Later . . .

Writing

Ho hum. Writing . . .

. . . Not nearly got as much done as I would have liked. My word tally this month is up to--checks spreadsheet--545o words, most of which has been on The Carrier. I'm a long way off the target for June (1oooo words). This will be the second month in a row that I've not reached the post. *sigh*.

Now that I'm back online I should be able to provide more frequent updates to this thing, but we'll see. It would help if I actually got more than 5o words down a day, then I'd at least have something to write about.

Later . . .

Infinte White

I've been away awhile . . .

Got internet access at home a few nights ago, and have just forced the website back into service. Check it.

I've given it a new look and there's actually some content there as well (for a change, altho' it's not a great deal). The library section will be where most of the new content will be found, but I've also added sections (well, pages actually) for news, contact, links and credits. There is also a link to my poorly neglected 'blog, and the best parts from the old thoughts of the misguided site.

Anyway, check it out (that link again is infinitewhite.net). All of the above pages can be reached from there. Let me know what you think. As I always say: If you like what you see, tell your friends. If you don't like what you see, tell your friends anyway, 'cos they might have taste.

Later . . .

Gonna Have Myself A Time

You love this stuff . . .

create your own south park character

Will post the Civil Engineers version of me just soon as I find a willing web host. (may also post all the other engineers and the mechanios as well).

Later . . .

Nigeria

less than Hopefully we can raise the game a little on Saturday.

Later . . .

The Big Brain Am Winning Again

Yay!

I got a 2:1 (upper second class honours)!

66.8% average for the year (although I can't work out my total average until my computer comes back to me).

I'm very happy :)

This is the culmination of four years of work, and the enormity of that is only just beginning to sink in. When I finished my last lecture/piece of coursework/exam it never seemed all that big, but now I realise just how big it is. I have finished! I have achieved what I set out to do - four years of stress during exams and near to coursework deadlines, four years of hardwork (and some damn good times as well :) ) are now over. I am a graduand. I have a degree (or at least I will after the grad ceremony). I have letters (MEng).

I still don't have a job, but there's plenty of time to worry about that.

I'm so happy.

Later . . .

Holding Breath

There are two days until I get my degree classification. Not that worried . . .

Radical Rat

More writing related news! The second rat challenge piece has been finished. Wrote some more words down last night before I went out (no word count tho' because of my computer's holiday), and wrote the final paragraph this morning before coming in here. It was a lot more than I had expected to write when I blogged yesterday, but at least it's done.

As I've said before, it's going to change a lot when I revise, but I'm not too worried about that. I have some kind of idea as to where it's going to go. I like to leave a week between finishing a draft like that and revising it, so it'll likely be the first thing I work on when I'm back in the Sticks.

And, the story has a name now as well: The Carrier. I'm keeping my eyes open for something that sounds better, but these things usually come later in the creation process for me, at a time when I have a better feel for the story I'm writing.

Later . . .

Don't Cry For Me

Latest of the little updates.

great news

good news

Later . . .

Clarity and a Recognisable Shape

Spent last couple of days updating the websites. I have copies of them in a form of limbo on my computer, but I do think they will be ready to be let loose on the web just as soon as I get back to Devon (providing my isp will host it for me . . . i'm running out of options).

The Library now has a story in it (All the Doors you Open), the News and Links sections have been updated accordingly and I've even started on an Images section (although at the moment it's just a few photos of me whilst I'm pissed).

Watch this space, I'll make an announcement as soon as they are back . . .

Man, we just couldn't stop laughing

Well, my parents came up this morning and took all of my stuff away ready for the move back home next weekend. It means that I'll be without a computer for the next seven days (unless I decide I want to walk into campus). It shouldn't harm my writing too much, as I've doing all of that stuff by hand and then typing it up recently. What this does mean however is that I won't have any kind of word count update until I get my computer back and get some form of internet access sorted out.

Last friday (which was the last time I got anything down due to underestimating my packing) I got another 8oo words down for the second rat piece. It is almost finished. I can feel the end of this story and I know that I may only have another paragraph or two to write. The trouble is . . . I was thinking about the story whilst walking into town the other day and I now know that there is another--better--way of telling it. I'll probably end up chopping most of it in the rewrite. Never mind.

It looks like the first rat piece is going to be scrapped altogether. It wasn't that good a story in the first place and now I feel that it never will be. It also looks like neither will be workshopped (it's the 9th of June already!).

Going back home in a minute to write those last paragraphs.

Later . . .

Shameful

' . . . held his head and fell down like he was having a brain haemorrhage despite the ball hitting his legs . . . '

Rivaldo. A role model.

Later . . .

Golden

Oh yeah, happy Jubilee everyone . . .

Dude, My Hands Are Huge

This jubilee stuff is really eating into my writing. I can't believe it's four days into june already and I've written a sum total of 2oo words (added to the second Rat Challenge Piece). I am now convinced that I'm not going to have either of them ready in time to join in this challenge (I know I have to the end of the month, but I need to be able to crit all the other submissions as well). I sense that it's almost finished, maybe a couple of days work, but I'm not entirely sure I know how it's going to end.

Yesterday, I did manage to finally go through the reviews I had received on the last challenge I took part in. That was March--the Second Person PoV Challenge. Some of the suggestions have been implemented, but I'm not sure if I'm going to put the main one into effect. Everyone who read it suggested that the ending was somewhat lacking, but because I don't have any further plans for it (I'm not going to be sending it out) i don't think it's worth trying to improve. It will be posted to the website pretty much as is, and that'll do for that.

I've also got a title for it: All the Doors you Open. It will be posted as the first of the new Tales of Skanpen Peak and it should be a fairly decent, if brief, introduction.

Later . . .

Sweden

Grrr.

Later . . .