Also in February, in pursuit of a goal to be a bit more sociable, and not such a goblin, I'm going to try out the book club meeting at my local library. I looked up the book they're doing this month and it's Yellowface, by R.F. Kuang. Since that was one of my favourite books I read last year, this seems like a good time to jump in. I'll give it a quick reread before then (the 12th.) Which I intended to do this year anyway, as the paperback rather than the audiobook. Excited to chat about it!
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Just been reviewing January and making my plans for February. January generally went well, so far as my goals were concerned. February I start drafting the book I'm working on just now, so it's a BICHOK month - bum* in chair, hands on keyboard.
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Even what he's said so far is implying blame lies with the pilot of the helicopter. So their family has the POTUS suggesting their lost loved one caused the crash, well before any investigation has been done. Yeah, that's just what they need right now.
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I wondered when Trump would start jumping in with both feet with some dumb comment about the awful helicopter and plane crash. And of course he has done so, with some armchair quarterbacking about why the helicopter didn't "go up or down" to avoid the plane. Hey, dummy, you know nothing whatever about it. The NTSB will investigate - assuming you haven't fired all of them by now.
Now waiting for him to say something insensitive to upset the families of the people killed in the crash.
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A reminder to be careful if you spot stickers with far right slogans on them when you're out and about and want to remove them. Those dickheads sometimes conceal razor blades under the sticker.
https://metro.co.uk/2025/01/29/razor-blade-found-hidden-neo-nazi-sticker-overground-train-station-22458095
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Styles really is a fabulous word processor feature.
Use header styles for your chapter headings and show the document navigation and you've got an outline that you can just click through, without loads of scrolling through a long document.
When drafting (when I often don't have chapters marked yet) I put headers and a note about the content at the start of each scene, so I can find stuff quickly, especially once I'm editing. But those get deleted before submission.
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[#]WritersCoffeeClub Jan 29: How do you format your drafts? Is it the same as the final manuscript?
It mostly is - my document template for writing fiction is set up for the format my publisher wants things submitted in.
But while drafting I tend to tweak things like the spacing and maybe font size, to be easier on my eyes. The key is using Styles. Then just change spacing and size in the style later to change the whole document.
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I watched Section 31 over the weekend. Oh dear. #StarTrek
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I've finished reading 7 books so far in January (2 were started last year.) Nice. Only one of them is an audiobook. I can usually get through 2 audiobooks a month, but this one, The Mars House by Natasha Pulley, is quite a long one, at 18+ hours.
Current books:
Audio: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Reading: The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
I swear I didn't decide "let's only read books by authors called Mary for the rest of January."
[#]reading
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And it was certainly a salutary reminder of how fast things can go to hell. Something important to remember these days, when we're nearly all very complacent and the words "But they can't do that" might as well be set up as a keyboard shortcut.
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Anyway, it was a quick, easy read, but certainly not a hopeful one. It was interesting in the way there was a sort of divide between characters who had fought in the war, and so were much more prepared for dealing with things going to absolute hell, compared to to those who had certainly suffered privations at home in Britain during the war, but never been in a place when there's no rule of law, no police to call on for help.
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Seeing that the food available in the UK is about to be far too little for the number of people living there, the government considers the option of downsizing the population by dropping nukes on several major cities. 😱
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It's an apocalypse story where a plant virus starts killing all species of grass. In case you think that only means bad news for lawns, wheat, rice, oats, barley, maize and sugar cane are all grasses. And this is set in the 1950s, when livestock was still mostly fed on grass. Things go very badly, as you can imagine. Slowly at first, as the virus spreads around the world, then all at once for the UK and the group we follow in the book.
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Just blasted through a quite short book, a mostly forgotten 1956 novel called The Death of Grass, by John Christopher. (Called No Blade of Grass in the US.) God it's bleak. Like Day of the Triffids meets Lord of the Flies.
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My to do list for today looked huge, but it was mostly small admin or housework tasks that took a couple of minutes each. So now nearly everything is ticked off and my to do list related satisfaction is through the roof.
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Promotions tax!
[#]RedPanda :redpanda:
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Release day again - short and wide
About a new short story release in a charity anthology, wide release for another of my backlist books, and a date for the release of the next of those.
[#]Promo #Promotion #Release
https://beecyclingblog.blogspot.com/2025/01/release-day-again-short-and-wide.html
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Kitten rescued from 33ft tree after three day stay.
Silly kitty climbed too high and needed a tree surgeon's firm to get him down. Thankfully he was rescued before Storm Eowyn blew in!
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj91vzevklko
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It's been many years since I read Frankenstein, and I want to read a book called Our Hideous Progeny by C. E. McGill, which is a novel about Victor Frankenstein's niece, that obviously has plenty of references to Mary Shelly's classic, so I need a refresher.
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Need quite a short audiobook to listen to next, after finishing Natasha Pulley's The Mars House today. I've got an audiobook reserved at the library that should be available on 2nd of Feb, so don't want to start one of the absolute honkers I have on the list for this year. So up next, read by Dan Stevens, the book sometimes called the first modern science fiction book. Frankenstein.
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