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Where Hilary, my sister, was spending a day working on a show-reel for voice-over work. It’s something she’s wanted to do for a long time and she found a studio in Nottingham that specialises in that very thing. They’re also an agency and they’ve put her straight on their books. Talking to the sound-engineer after, it appears she impressed everyone mightily with her talent for characterisation – apparently it’s really hard to get voice-actors to characterise, they tend to want to do everything in their own voice - and Hilary is really good too, with a massive range. They’re sending her audition disc up for a couple of ads, talking books and the new series of Creature Comforts, which is most excellent news indeed.
I took my lappy assuming there’d be a green room where I could sit and work since I was only there for the moral support. There wasn’t, so I spent the morning in Starbucks, had a browse about (its been years since I wandered the streets of Nottingham) and passed a very long afternoon in the Costa in Waterstones where at least they had comfy sofas and a host of students and academics similarly occupying space for hours on end on the strength of a pot of Earl Grey and a ginger snap. *g*
I got a goodly bit of my sitcom worked out and some interesting ideas for the novel, switching to notes when the lappy batteries finally failed – a productive day, if a tad tedious and massively tiring, but there are far worse places to spend a day than drinking coffee, writing and browsing in a bookshop.
In other news, I got my first ‘where’s this story then?’ email from one of my Moonridge winners today. Gently worded but a prod nonetheless. Gentle reader, if you too are one of those poor, patient souls waiting for the next update to the Academy tale (and/or waiting for Rainbows 3 to start) I can only tell you what I told them – I'll be back with you as soon as I can. I’m truly sorry, but the muse just isn’t dancing in that direction right now. I guarantee I will finish them – barring death or coma – but I honestly can’t say when that will be.
Needless to say, I’m not offering anything for Moonridge this year.
And as my fannish life continues to diminish, I dropped another 23 communities from my flist – the bulk of them fandom and fic-related -
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doctorwho, crack_van and the like. My morning sojourn on LJ hasn’t been this quick, easy and stress-free for a very long time. (o:
I took my lappy assuming there’d be a green room where I could sit and work since I was only there for the moral support. There wasn’t, so I spent the morning in Starbucks, had a browse about (its been years since I wandered the streets of Nottingham) and passed a very long afternoon in the Costa in Waterstones where at least they had comfy sofas and a host of students and academics similarly occupying space for hours on end on the strength of a pot of Earl Grey and a ginger snap. *g*
I got a goodly bit of my sitcom worked out and some interesting ideas for the novel, switching to notes when the lappy batteries finally failed – a productive day, if a tad tedious and massively tiring, but there are far worse places to spend a day than drinking coffee, writing and browsing in a bookshop.
In other news, I got my first ‘where’s this story then?’ email from one of my Moonridge winners today. Gently worded but a prod nonetheless. Gentle reader, if you too are one of those poor, patient souls waiting for the next update to the Academy tale (and/or waiting for Rainbows 3 to start) I can only tell you what I told them – I'll be back with you as soon as I can. I’m truly sorry, but the muse just isn’t dancing in that direction right now. I guarantee I will finish them – barring death or coma – but I honestly can’t say when that will be.
Needless to say, I’m not offering anything for Moonridge this year.
And as my fannish life continues to diminish, I dropped another 23 communities from my flist – the bulk of them fandom and fic-related -
doctorwho, crack_van and the like. My morning sojourn on LJ hasn’t been this quick, easy and stress-free for a very long time. (o:
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but there are far worse places to spend a day than drinking coffee, writing and browsing in a bookshop.
There are, yes :-) Hail to your being productive.
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That Costa had the best sofa I've ever sat in. I must have it! I must! (Or one exactly like it)
*g*
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You dropped 23 communities? Go you! I only belong to 29 in total. I'm a big fan of
Sounds as though Hilary is very talented
I was on 90 comms before, I've lost more than half this week. I'm not getting to spend that much time here any more and I just couldn' t keep up with it all. I used to love Crack-Van too, but I'm reading so little fic at the moment - no fic at all, tbh - and it was just another thing to skate past in the evening. I can always re-sub to everything if I re-discover the time and inclination. (o:
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That is cool about your sister, maybe she'd like to do some podfics, for practice. Has she read your fanfic stories?
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Ah, fanfic...
maybe she'd like to do some podfics, for practice.
Oh I doubt it! *g* Really, Not her kind of thing at all!
Has she read your fanfic stories?
If I were ever to show them to her (which I wouldn't) she would smile sympathetically before handing them back. We would mutually and silently agree never to speak of this again.
So no. Really. I can't even imagine doing such a thing. (o:
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Congrats to your sister, and I'm glad to hear you got some work on Entanglements done! That story just sounds so cool... I hope I get to read it one of these days...
I can't think of a nicer day spent than drinking coffee in a bookstore
Entanglement is coming on slowly. I'm still not sure where it's going - or rather, I know the bones of the plot but there are things, other things and lots of them and I'm not so certain about those. I'm mainly concentrating on the sitcom right now. I'm much happier with that.
Hope your own writing is going well? It was nioce, for me, to have a day free of distractions to just get on with. It's almost impossible for me to work at dad's house and it's really getting me down tbh.
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But I got plenty done and that's the main thing. If I could only get some peace in the house... but that's just idle thinking that will come to nothing... ::sigh::
I'm getting on best with the sitcom because I already have the Big story arc worked out and the comedy is, by it's nature, momentary, so I can think up a scenario, get the gags working in that matrix and it doesn't seem to matter so much, working in fits and starts with constant interruptions. Narrative writing; fic and my novel - I need sustained peace for and I never ever get that. So I'm concentrating on the radio-com and it's coming on rather nicely. I got the first scene scripted at Waterstones - this made me glad. *g*
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As for the muse/fandom/fanfic thing, I think it's really good that you don't pressure yourself and follow to where your muse/heart wants you to take at the moment. It seems to me that, this way, you've found a way out of the low your life's been in for a big long while and you deserve to leave that place any way you damn well want and can. Ah, and hey, Moonridge. ::shrugs, knowing you know that you and I are sitting in the same boat there:: I haven't heard from my winner since I wrote back to her a few weeks ago and am happy about that. But even if she comes back snarky again, thanks to the support of you and the rest of my f-list, I'm now in a better place to deal with that. Things just are the way they are. The stories get written when they get written, no sooner no later.
And me things, any person with half a brain should know that the writer is the absolute last person who'd willingly not write a story she's previously committed herself to writing or purposely delay its completion.::cheers you on with all your other writing projects:: :-) Any day words are committed to paper or file is a good day!