AWBTWYSBD*

Because I have four hundred pages of proofs to read (how did this book ever get to be 400pp? I think of it as slim);

and because I have to finish its sequel soonest;

and because I have a short story that I must must write before the end of the month, and all there is at the moment is a title and a first line, no idea;

and because I have numerous other projects half-completed, all of which are demanding my attention;

therefore I am all full of desire for what's new, the fascination of what's difficult, collaboration. E-mails have been sent and received, notions tossed back and forth. I have the memoirs of Catherine the Great, and all I want to do is read them.

(I love this, that we have her own version in her own hand. And that it ends with a ..., as she chokes herself off on the very verge of indiscretion.)


*Any Work But The Work You Should Be Doing (this acronym copyright truepenny and used without consent because like all writers I am Prometheus; everything I offer, that I stole)

Further to my last

I meant to say: for years now, years, I have been envious of my LJ-friends, some of you. Not for the supersquillion advances y'all keep getting for your multifarious publishing deals - well, not just for the supersquillion advances - but for the fact that y'all have Sooper Sekrit Projekts that you could be all mysterious about, while everybody knows the simple things I'm up to.

No longer.

*has a Sooper Sekrit Projekt too*

Britishness meme

I would just like to point out that I answered all these questions honestly, and the only one I didn't check was "You drive a German car", because in fact I drive no car at all...

You Are 95% British

Are you British? Hell, you're more of a Brit than the Queen is! You're truly the dog's bollocks... and you know that's not an insult. So what if you're a slobbering drunk obsessed with football? At least you always remember your manners.

How British Are You?