Meh. And a review.

[desperance]

This is the sort of day I don't understand, when I'm working; it's been that sort of day where it's entirely impossible to understand how I ever can work. I can't imagine where the work would have fitted in.

Okay, I had a crap night; but I got up at the usual sort of time, and I have done nothing today that I might not do on a regular working day - written a letter, read some LJ, watched an hour's TV, walked into town for an hour - and yet on a regular day I would have written four or five pages by now. Today? Nothing. Not a word. Meh.

Still, Ian Whates sends a link to this review of his anthology 'DisLocations', wherein my story 'Terminal' is applauded, which is nice. Money shot:

"Chaz Brenchley's 'Terminal' is a rich, dense, highly textured story about the teleportation of consciousness and the nature of identity, set on an exotic planet, and which lingers long in the memory, and like the MacLeod story, is one of the best of the year, let alone in the book."

It also says that Ken MacLeod has none of my obvious glamour. There I go, being obvious again...

Comments

[athenais.livejournal.com]

What are you, a fiction machine? Stop and smell the the obvious glamour. And if you really want to make me happy, which I don't know why you should, write some more about your cooking. I love reading that because I'd never go to the trouble, myself.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

It's the birthday of Richard III; maybe you were taking the day off to celebrate.

I celebrated by eating cassoulet in Castelnaudary, which claims to be the world's cassoulet capital. Also ate excellent sorbet, but Chaz Doesn't Do ice cream, we know that...

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Chaz does do cassoulet, though. Do they do the stirring-in-the-breadcrumbs thing in Castelnaudary?

D'you suppose Richard III would have done ice cream? He certainly had a taste for the chilly - "Now is the winter" etc...

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

I know Chaz does cassoulet - that's why I told you. No breadcrumbs were in evidence, though they had managed to make a darkened skin on the top - a burned skin, I suppose, but I'm having trouble finding words which don't suggest this is a bad thing...

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Is supposed to be a skin of breadcrumbs, which you break up and stir in and then restrew with fresh crumbs three or four times during the cooking, in order to thicken the stew and supply a final crunch. I read somewhere that actually this is inauthentic, which I leaped upon with a cry of delight 'cos I really didn't want to do it...