No. I’m not a doctor.
But anyway, I spent a chunk of today rereading stuff. This (actually last) year’s nano (the gender bending post modern psychoanalytic revolution….and a load of pretentious nonsense) and last year’s (actually the year before last’s) nano (the Norse deconstruction of love and loss….and a load of childish nonsense) both got a [...]
14 January 2008
Categories: Big Head, Nanowrimo, Personal, Writing . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 3 Comments
Troublesome.
That’s what it is.
Troublesome.
I’ve hit the climax see. Well. Not the climax, but the crux. This is pretty much the emotional core of the novel, which, if I need to remind you, came to me whilst masturbating and hallucinating at the same time.
Fever’s do weird things, as does not sleeping. Put the two together and [...]
23 November 2007
Categories: Erotica, Feminism, Ideology, Nanowrimo, Troublesome, Writing, gender . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 9 Comments
It is hard to reward myself when I can’t turn to my usual staples of booze and other types of booze.
See, I hit 20k. Which means I managed 2.5k today. This is good wording, but now I’ve made that milestone, and I’m finding it hard to punctuate my day in such a way as to [...]
22 November 2007
Categories: Mind, Motivation, Nanowrimo, Personal, Room, life . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 1 Comment
Fun day yesterday, party, excitement, banter, skirts, wrestling, pomegranete fights, slightly uncomfortable people not sure how to deal with a guy in a skirt. Party slowly getting much better than expected.
Problematics though. No writing. Bad, should’ve written something. Tension/Arguments. People in slightly narky moods. Friends in states. Not all pleasant.
And then I get a call [...]
11 November 2007
Categories: Down, Failure, Nanowrimo, Parties, Personal, Relationships, hurt . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 1 Comment
So.
Writing’s funny.
I’m currently finding my post modernist perspective to be dangerous. Once you disentangle from simple ideology everything you write is not yours, and fraught with danger.
Sure it may be playful, but it’s getting dark. And I’m not quite allowed to escape into gnomes, dragons and snow leopards like everyone else is.
I’m occupying a skull. [...]
9 November 2007
Categories: Nanowrimo, Panic, Plot, Post Modern, Progress, Writing . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 3 Comments
Yesterday was a bit manic, involving lots of typing, some laundry, something resembling a date (that managed to be probably the most successful/unsuccessful date I’ve ever been on…for weird complicated reasons that I can’t go into…lots of fun is the key), a large Sunday roast, lots of beer, intense conversation, and….a plot. Not only that, [...]
5 November 2007
Categories: Busy, Dating, Diary?, Happy, Nanowrimo, Positive, Relationships, Writing . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 1 Comment
My hangover is trying to kill me, the nano meet last night was a mess but a kind of success, but I may have been too drunk. I then went elsewhere and got more too drunk. Had my first ‘old fashioned’ though, which was a very very tasty thing to do to bourbon.Luxuriant.
Payday, as usual [...]
2 November 2007
Categories: Bits and Bobs, Booze, Conflusion, Day of the Dead, Fear, Love, Memorial, Nanowrimo, Personal . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 1 Comment
More filler (though actually, last post ended up sparking some awesome conversations, and all the content is only going to bring up my stats, even if it is just more people looking for nudity and weird sex).
I’ve had a very messy weekend, lots of fun, far too much self pity, and I converted all my [...]
21 October 2007
Categories: Composting, Creativity, Ideas, Nanowrimo, Writing . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 5 Comments
Soooo,
I was planning on writing a big Nanowrimo encouragement post, to celebrate the site getting back in business for the 2007 session…and then realised that it’s not going on until the evening…in another country…so I’d be early.
So I’ll do that tomorrow, but for now I anticipate.
Then I stumble upon some great news and spend too [...]
1 October 2007
Categories: Complicated, Evolution, Excited, Expenditure, Feminism, Grumpy, Nanowrimo, Radiohead, Random, Reading, WASTE . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 3 Comments
First up, name that closing line.
Secondly, sorry I’ve been incommunicado. I’ve been horrifically ill most of this week. Fevers, aches, pains, insomnia, sweat, hallucinations and a sore throat.
It’s not been pleasant. I haven’t actually been this ill since I was 11 and had to go to Christmas dinner with my extended family in a dressing [...]
21 September 2007
Categories: Dysphoria, Ill, Nanowrimo, Sickypoo, Turmoil, Writing . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 18 Comments
I finally fucking did it.
The scene that has been the bane of my existence for almost six months as been written, now I just need to remember how the Ragnarok bit goes (a question of research) and I’ve got to the end of my novel.
Okay, so the scene is rubbish, and slightly inexplicable…but this is [...]
11 May 2007
Categories: Accomplishment, Apocalypse, Dennis Wilson, Ending, Frost Troll, Gah, Hope, Joy, Mood, Music, Nanowrimo, Novel, Things the make me Smile, Wonderful, Writer's Block, Writing . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 5 Comments
So, I am still maintaining some kind of forward motion on the nano. I finally got the ball rolling again.
Only problem is it’s going incredibly slowly.
I kinda took the weekend off and spent most of it absolutely bladdered…or at best hungover. This was good in a way, but in fact I think I would’ve preferred [...]
12 February 2007
Categories: Beer, Creativity, Detachment, Diary?, Drinking, Emotions, Energy, Feeling Rough, Film, Frost Troll, Gah, Hope, Imagination, Incoherent, Looking forward, Lovely, Mild Mania, Music, Nanowrimo, Nonsense, Novel, Personal, Personal Growth, Ramble, Swings and Roundabouts, Things that make me Smile, Thoughts, Tired, Tiredness, Vikings, Violence, Werid, Writing, boredom, life . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 7 Comments
So. I’m at work, and I wasn’t planning on blogging today. I was hoping to write a couple of thousand words on the old novel. That’s right…I’ve finally had the burst of ideas I’ve been waiting for and I’m ready to carry on and make my way towards the ending that I’ve been wanting to [...]
7 February 2007
Categories: Action, Action Films, Apocalypse, Frost Troll, How to write, I am an Artist, Idiot, Literature, Nanowrimo, Novel, Ramble, Storytelling, Strange, Swings and Roundabouts, Vikings, Weird, Writer's Block, Writing . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 3 Comments
Random research sometimes yields better results than anything specific.
Following a linkĀ on an article about the iPhone (current wordpress number one) led me to Schroedinger’s cat, which I’ve known about for years. Anyway, I looked at the related links and found some interesting stuff. Most useful perhaps was the bit on Quantum Suicide.
Now this I’d [...]
20 January 2007
Categories: Being a 'writer', Big Brother, Creativity, Feeling Rough, Geekery, How to write, Internet, Investigation, Learning, Mild Mania, Nanowrimo, Novel, Quantum Physics, Science, Swings and Roundabouts, Thoughts, Vikings, Wikipedia, Writer's Block . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 7 Comments
Nanowrimo meet up last night. The big thank fuck its over celebration.
Good times….but now my head is paying its dues.
Its when the front of your head is in agony and it feels like your brain is actually trying to flee the skull. I think its planning on handing in its notice. I can just see [...]
2 December 2006
Categories: Ale, Beer, Cricket, Culture, Curioisity, Diary?, Drinking, Everything, Farming, Feeling Rough, Food, Gender Roles, Guardian, Ill, Internal Organs, Laziness, Lazy, Literary Anecdotes, Literature, Lovely Strangers, Mild Mania, Mood swings, Music, Nanowrimo, Nonsense, Novel, Pain, Personal, Ramble, Sahil, Schnitzel, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Sickypoo, Silliness, Stupid, Swings and Roundabouts, Thanks, Things that make me Smile, Tired, Weird, Writing . . Author: Alabaster Crippens . Comments: 2 Comments