I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who posted on my last entry. I'll reply properly later, but I just wanted to let people know I was okay, and that today was a little more than bearable, and this was rather-a-lot-more-than-partially down to you all.

Thank you so much. ♥

Books

A Week in December - Sebastian Faulks
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 
Interview With The Vampire - Anne Rice 
Strange Angels - Lili St. Crow
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
The Kingdom Keepers - Ridley Pearson
Night - Elie Wiesel
Collected Tales - Edgar Allan Poe 
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
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- Send Jacob's Ladder out to a minimum of thirty literary agents, even if they all reject me.

- Finish The Boy With The White Hair. Oscar and Arthur deserve their story and their ending.

- Keep schoolwork in perspective. It is not a matter of life and death. Failing would not make me a failure.

- Do things simply because I can, e.g. write adoring ( Read more... )

Books and letters. Epiphanies and realisations, whether I wanted them or not. Friends. People I adore and admire in equal measure. Courage and insecurity. Burning bridges to light my way and fading out of lives like a fuzzy afternoon black-and-white film. Torchwood and Sherlock and Merlin, Being Human and Rent and Amelie and Maurice. A début novel ( Read more... )

Happy Christmas.


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 Some facts for your attention:

On the 20th December 2010, at around 9 o'clock at night, I finished writing my first novel Jacob's Ladder. When roughly converted to A5, it currently clocks in at about three-hundred-and-seventy-five-or-something pages in point-thirteen Times New Roman.

This is the major writing project I mentioned on my last post. I ( Read more... )

 
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Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: Jack/Ianto implied, and affection from a pterodactyl. 
Rating: PG
Warnings: Sarcasm and deprecation the the extreme. 
Summary: After all, pets were very entertaining. 
Disclaimer: I am not responsible for the creation of these characters; only for my interpretation of them, which you can totally blame me for.
A/N: pulped_fiction's It's a ( Read more... )

Fandom: Torchwood
General, Tosh and Ianto as BFFs. 
Rating: PG. 
Warnings: References to events in S2. 
Summary: They share music files and spare change. 
Disclaimer: I am not responsible for the creation of these characters; only for my interpretation of them, which you can totally blame me for.
A/N: pulped_fiction's It's a Gift submission. For tierfal. Will be screened ( Read more... )

Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing: Ten/Rose 
Rating: PG
Warnings: There is sad moments in these words. 
Summary: Once upon a time, there was the most ridiculous story.  
Disclaimer: I am not responsible for the creation of these characters; only for my interpretation of them, which you can totally blame me for.
A/N: pulped_fiction's It's a Gift submission. For tierfal. Will be ( Read more... )