Goodnight!

Managed to type in 750 words of FAO short story 4, only 2,000 more to type in. I was very confused with trying to sort out what I had typewritten in and what I had to. I have a headache. I want to go to bed. Goodnight!

Jolablot

I typed in 1,500 words of The 24 today, in 250 word chunks on my wife's iPad. Also wrote 250 words of the same story. I had planned it a few days ago and so it flowed.

I tried looking at current political satirical programmes on YouTube today. There is a new one with Rory Bremner on Radio 4 sometime today. I thought it might help with my Will Rogers type short funny blog thing. It didn't. I had thought about talking about all the law breakers I saw on the way to university. The mobile phone car users, the cut ins, the speeders, the jay walkers, the magpies. The magpies were jumping in the road before they flew off, and I didn't see them steal anything. So, lawbreakers all over the place, it seems that people only seem to keep the law when they are being watched. A bit like musical statues, they run around until the music/policeman sees them then they stand still hoping not to be caught out.

Hooray!

Wrote 260 words today even though I wasn't planning to. Finished the cover for FOA 1 near enough. I was on it for over 8 hours.

My daughter passed her driving test today and we went to Starbucks for a coffee to celebrate (That's where I wrote the words.) If you add an e to fun you get funny, well near enough, it sounds the same.

Raspberry Pye

I wrote about 700 words of The 24 today. Had a coffee at an adult learning drop in and one at the chaplaincy and a short one at Starbucks (not enough milk was put in the Starbucks one, now they have to pay corporation tax...) Didn't do any of my drawing. Also watched Tankeys, the BBC prog about WWII tank crews. Watched the programme about the making of The Da Vinci Code film.

So when I am famous and people discuss my books they will probably look at the above paragraph and say something like, 'He got his inspiration for the fourth book from WWII, the last book from The Da Vinci Code and most of his jokes while he was drinking coffee!!!'

(This blog post is named by my son, who did a raspberry. Then we thought pie, but he then suggested the different spelling. It has nothing to do with WWII, The Da Vinci Code or coffee.)

Bosooms!

Didn't do any writing today!!! Instead I drew and added to my android picture. Started it at my daughter's with the grand kids burbling around. Then carried on at home. It is now the correct height, has full legs and slimmer hips as well as an alteration to the chests. (It has two bosooms, being a male.) have basically coloured in the top half so only need to do the legs. I plan to reduce the picture and copy it 7 times for the background, I will increase the size and repeat until there are 7 ranks with the giant robot being in rank 1.

I also drew Batman, Wonder Woman and Robert for my grand daughter. It turns out that she likes the android I have drawn for the cover as much as Batman Et al. Who ate Al I do not know, but nobody tell his mother as she will need to open a can of bull.

Ing

I managed to finish the ending of FOA. I also did an epilogue and an epilogue to the epilogue. Wrote 500 words of TST and 500 words of The 24. I have got myself into another mini battle or two before the finale. You never know I might be able to hit the 30,000 word target! Drew some more of the 4 androids on the cover. I was planning to get it finished this week but with the PC going doolally and me being ill on Thursday I am now behind.

I also read a writing article where this woman said that you should not use too many words ending in ing at the beginning of sentencing. In the previous page of writing I did last weekend I saw two sentences beginning with ing words. She said that it makes for weak writing if it is too common. Things like 'Standing, she walked to the door' and 'Turning on a lathe he made a door knob'. So I will have to check my work for too many ings. Did you know that ing on the end of place names means settlement? Therefore Standing could mean the stand settlement or hoping could mean the hop settlement. A settlement of hoppers, sounds like a bunch of hop pickers on holiday!

A bit of a blog.

I wrote about 722 words of FOA today and caught up with what I hadn't done earlier in the week. Tried to make the cover better by increasing the size of the androids in the background. After looking at what I am going to do with OWIA I think I will be 4 short stories down!!!

Managed to remember my password for the eprintedbooks blog and blogged a bit. Got the printer working and the sound card and dual linked the old hard drive, at least I haven't lost any information. I have been reduced to playing Freecell though. So far I have a 100% score (you guessed it, I won the first game and stopped there!)