I'm here in the tiny country town where I will be spending the next few months, trying to adjust to GP medicine from the hospital mindset. The town itself has a couple of nice coffee places, a library, and -- within a five-minute walk of my house! -- a gym, two large supermarkets, a Dan Murphy's, and a pizza place. So. There's the basics covered. ( Read more... )

1) I've reached the skittish, attention-hopping part of writing something, when I'm close enough to finishing that my mind has already dismissed it and wandered on to the next three things. I have to keep dragging myself back and grimly adding another paragraph or two ( Read more... )

IPAD

iPad!

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Guess what I bought today?

The full answer is a bit alarming, because I have a tendency to wait for a month and then get all of my shopping out of the way in a florid burst of expenditure. So as well as an iPad, I also bought:

- a leather folio for it
- an ultrathin keyboard case
- three books (Ray Bradbury's We'll Always Have ( Read more... )

I SURVIVED THE WEEK. It's been madly busy, and next week will probably be worse (my neuro team is on take for two weeks in a row, UGH; if everyone in the city could maybe hold off on having strokes, migraines or meningitis for another six days or so, that'd be grand) so I need to have an intensely relaxing weekend, I think ( Read more... )

Whatever it is, I seem to be labouring under the delusion that I can replace it with white wine, the Of Monsters & Men album, and long periods of staring with ever-plummeting optimism at an unfinished story ( Read more... )

At the moment, I like working evening shifts. I have long mornings to amuse myself in, during which people on the other side of the world are USUALLY AWAKE (!) So I'm reading and writing and watching things; mostly movies that I have never seen before and feel that I should. So far this has included ( Read more... )

I wrote 129 words tonight. At this rate I'll be done by...July...

& there's not much else of note to add to this post! It is the WEEKEND, I am going to sleep for decadent amounts of time and maybe bake something, the usual. We watched Hysteria tonight, it was fabulous. I just finished rereading Moon Tiger for possibly the third time and am about ( Read more... )

These past two days have been WRITING FAILURES; I am yet to master the art of writing in spare moments, at the drop of a hat, etc. so any significant event during the evening messes with my motivation. Yesterday it was stitch-and-bitch-and-book-club, tonight it was a GP seminar on internet-based CBT services ( Read more... )

Only 203 words today, but the original thing is still growing, albeit slowly!

Something a bit exciting: the editor of the anthology is offering a separate story of mine as a stretch bonus which will be included if we reach $10,000 on the Kickstarter! It's an older story, not the magical library one, and it's had the dust blown off it and been ( Read more... )

Nothing yesterday apart from a ridiculous session of
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