One down...

[desperance]

Is finish! I iz dun! Ect ect.

The first revision of this month, the discreetly anonymous urban fantasy novel (oh, hell, it's called Desdaemona, okay? Pfui on discretion!) has been cut by 12,500 words and sent away again. Lord only knows if they'll buy it, but I have done what I can to help.

And now it's 5.00pm, which is my settle-down-to-work-for-the-evening time; and I might have run out for a walk instead but it's chucketing down with rain, so I shan't do that; so I'm going to do some work. I have to write a ghost story for this year's Phantoms events, and I know where it starts, more or less, so I am going to start it. And maybe hope to finish it tomorrow, if I'm good, to clear the decks for the really big revision project, the fantasy novel that I do believe I have fucked up right royally.

In other news, Barry is stripping dead leaves off my Ficus plants on the top landing, and dropping them down into the stairwell, and peering over fascinatedly to watch Mac playing with them at the bottom.

In other other news, the ultraportable laptop that I have been lusting after for months now? Is currently listed on Amazon at nearly-half price. Which makes it just a normal sensible kind of price for a good laptop, rather than Prohibitively Expensive.

I don't need it; I can't afford it.

*wants*

Comments

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

YAY!

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

Hurray for Desdaemona, long may she wave!

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

Congrats!!!

w00t!

Now, after you have finished #2, and started in at the beginning of some other massive tome, you can face the same questions in every damn conversation: so, what are you doing now? are you still writing?

[spaceoperadiva.livejournal.com]

Confetti for doneness!! Huzzah You!

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Congratulations.
I am currently at the 'I'm never going to get through this d***ed thing' stage with my (endless) revisions). In my next life, I am going to be a street sweeper. Or an airline pilot. Or a cat. But not any kind of writer.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Yup. My own perpetual cry is "I shoulda been a merchant banker!" I have the genes (Grandad was a bank clerk, Dad was an accountant: it's a necessary progression), I like money, how on earth did I get shunted into this...?

[handworn.livejournal.com]

Well, you could serve a term as office boy to an attorney's firm. You'd clean the windows and sweep the floor and polish up the handle on the big front door.

Is there a link to this marvelous laptop?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, seriously, I do wish I'd done some regular job, at least for a while. But no: too late now.

Here is the Amazon offer for the lovely carbon-fibre Sony Vaio (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-VAIO-G11XN-Bluetooth-fingerprint/dp/B000OM78CC/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1197216980&sr=1-2), and here's a more useful review (http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4035). They have them in stock at John Lewis (at almost twice the price), and I ogle and lust on a nearly-daily basis. It is the sexiest thing. And feather-light, and just ideal for me (except that I suspect there might be Issues, running it under Linux: but nothing that couldn't be sorted out, with the aid of a guru or two).

[handworn.livejournal.com]

Whoo. Nice, but indeed, that is a tad pricy.

I have a higher tolerance of perceived risk than most people, so I'd look for these on eBay, were I looking to get one. That's where I got the HP Pavilion I'm typing on right now, and that was either $500 or $600, can't recall which now.

Are laptops more costly in the U.K.? Seems like a lot is. I've heard of Europeans taking advantage of cheap airfares to fly to the States just for the shopping, 'cause the savings makes it economical.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I've never been to the States, but that's my impression, certainly, that Stuff Is Cheaper over there. 'Specially, of course, with the dollar crashing against the pound. Except, of course, for those of us whose income is earned first in dollars and then translated into pounds. Damn it...

(And I have an unpredictable approach to risk: sometimes I dive headlong, and in some things I am preternaturally cautious. I do like to try before I buy. Having said that, all my computers over twenty-some years have been bought mail-order - but only ever from the original manufacturers. I've never bought anything on e-Bay.)

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Well, I was the taxman (tax-woman?) for a while, but it doesn't pay well. Then I was an academic. Which doesn't pay well *and* involves writing... (I come from a family of teachers.) Definitely cat next time.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Yay. I used to ask Buddhists, when all my friends were turning Buddhist, what one had to do in this life to be reborn as a cat in the next. They never could tell me...