f4f3 | Alive! He's Alive!

Thanks for all the expressions of concern on Friday - makes me feel quite valued.

I did survive, but the lurgi more or less wiped out my weekend. I slept in 'till around 11 on Saturday, and then decided that going outdoors was an unnecessary risk. Which was good news for the Newton Tandoori.

In other news, I watched Batman Begins, which was far from being sucky (although the best bits were those they kept from Frank Miller's "Batman: Year One" and the worst where they diverged from it (why was Jim Gordon such a wimp? Is it really true that in a film script you have to give the Star EVERYTHING?).

Merlin got a nice romp in the park on Sunday, and I recorded two particularly fine victories over the virtual chessboard.

I also generally mulled over my November novel plot, and the last few pieces clicked in while I was soaking in the bath last night - stuff about magic weapons, and the intelligent gene, and von Neumann machines. I now have an opening, an ending, and the mechanism for getting between them. I wonder what will happen along the way?

Unlike my very good composite friend http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=itchyfrankie I probably won't be posting too much as I go, apart from word count and the occasional manic howl of complaint. This isn't because I hate feedback (I do, of course, since you are all sadistic swine who lack my genius) but because I'm used to a format where completed manuscripts get critiqued (by sadistic swine who etc.), not works in progress.

We'll see how it goes...