Tracking

I wish I could work out how to use the Fed Ex tracking system.

I have had an email from www.lulu.com informing me that my author copies of NWO Thebes and Rome vols 1&2 have been despatched. All I have to do now is wait. And wait.

Regardless of my natural impatience, thanks to jfs for sorting out the broken links etc on the NWO page at Lulu.

Tracking

I wish I could work out how to use the Fed Ex tracking system.

I have had an email from www.lulu.com informing me that my author copies of NWO Thebes and Rome vols 1&2 have been despatched. All I have to do now is wait. And wait.

Regardless of my natural impatience, thanks to jfs for sorting out the broken links etc on the NWO page at Lulu.

Welcome

Hello, by the way, to gipsy_dreamer who wandered in from ellefurtle's journal yesterday.

Always nice to make new acquaintances; I hope my ramshackle ramblings amuse you.

Welcome

Hello, by the way, to gipsy_dreamer who wandered in from ellefurtle's journal yesterday.

Always nice to make new acquaintances; I hope my ramshackle ramblings amuse you.

Halloween Ghost Story Challenge

Okay.

Back on 21st of this month I mooted a writing challenge – just for fun – to create a ghost or horror story for Halloween. A number of you expressed an interest, so I think it’s a ‘go’.

The challenge is simple: write a ghost or horror story in no more than 500 words, based upon a song lyric or a couple of lines from a song lyric of your choice.

Post the story in your LiveJournal, but don’t tell anyone what the lyric that inspired it is, though it may be worth dropping a clue, cryptic or otherwise and we’ll see if anyone can guess where you got your idea. (Thanks to jfs for that refinement).

Can I ask people who customarily friends lock their journals to leave that one post unlocked, please and I shall post an entry with links on Halloween itself, so that anyone who is not on your friends list, but who is interested, can read it. I intend to cross post to just_writing too, unless anyone objects (many of you are there anyway).

Once all the entries are linked together, does anyone think that it would be worth putting up a poll for people to rate the stories from 1-5 stars, or is that just a potential soul crusher for any poor sap who gets a single star, when what we should really be celebrating is the fact they took part?

Anyway, with that one question to be answered, get writing and I’ll post links in a month!

Good luck!

(cross posted)

Edited to add: I'll repost this a couple of times over the month for anyone who missed it first time around.

Halloween Ghost Story Challenge

Okay.

Back on 21st of this month I mooted a writing challenge – just for fun – to create a ghost or horror story for Halloween. A number of you expressed an interest, so I think it’s a ‘go’.

The challenge is simple: write a ghost or horror story in no more than 500 words, based upon a song lyric or a couple of lines from a song lyric of your choice.

Post the story in your LiveJournal, but don’t tell anyone what the lyric that inspired it is, though it may be worth dropping a clue, cryptic or otherwise and we’ll see if anyone can guess where you got your idea. (Thanks to jfs for that refinement).

Can I ask people who customarily friends lock their journals to leave that one post unlocked, please and I shall post an entry with links on Halloween itself, so that anyone who is not on your friends list, but who is interested, can read it. I intend to cross post to just_writing too, unless anyone objects (many of you are there anyway).

Once all the entries are linked together, does anyone think that it would be worth putting up a poll for people to rate the stories from 1-5 stars, or is that just a potential soul crusher for any poor sap who gets a single star, when what we should really be celebrating is the fact they took part?

Anyway, with that one question to be answered, get writing and I’ll post links in a month!

Good luck!

(cross posted)

Edited to add: I'll repost this a couple of times over the month for anyone who missed it first time around.

Books!

Much to my surprise, my three NWO books, Thebes and Romes 1 and 2 arrived today. I only got the email confirming despatch yesterday and wasn't expecting them for some time. The intelligence that they would be printed in and despatched from somewhere in England had eluded me.

I have had some fun revisiting old friends from within these pages, though I notice that a couple of my writings have been acredited elsewhere. Still, in the second edition (ha!) maybe...

Actually, it's hardly a biggie. What is impressive at this remove of years, is how complicated it all got as the sequence progressed. I remember thinking when we wrote Thebes, that it was a lot for us to keep track of. Of course that's before Transylvania: that was complex. But then we wrote Rome. A million words for that one game alone; so much that we had to put it into two volumes. That was complicated. It was also the best of the run.

And finally the Grand - not yet printed up, but also in excess of a million words. I am informed by them what knows that in time, when it is printed, it may take three volumes, albeit individually slimmer tomes. That was a hard one to write and we were tired by then.

But it was worth it.

Addendum: Yesterday at work I found hidden away on my computer the post Rome de-brief for Cardinal Remigius. I came very close to a giggle loopp re-reading that. Particularly the descriptions of the antics of one Luciano: Assassin of Narbonne and the creeping thought in Remigius's mind that everyone in Il Duomo other than himself might just be mentally defective. They weren't. They just weren't playing precisely to the plan Remigius thought they were.

Mind you, Luciano was potty. He wasn't meant to be, but he was. I am being charitable five years on.

Books!

Much to my surprise, my three NWO books, Thebes and Romes 1 and 2 arrived today. I only got the email confirming despatch yesterday and wasn't expecting them for some time. The intelligence that they would be printed in and despatched from somewhere in England had eluded me.

I have had some fun revisiting old friends from within these pages, though I notice that a couple of my writings have been acredited elsewhere. Still, in the second edition (ha!) maybe...

Actually, it's hardly a biggie. What is impressive at this remove of years, is how complicated it all got as the sequence progressed. I remember thinking when we wrote Thebes, that it was a lot for us to keep track of. Of course that's before Transylvania: that was complex. But then we wrote Rome. A million words for that one game alone; so much that we had to put it into two volumes. That was complicated. It was also the best of the run.

And finally the Grand - not yet printed up, but also in excess of a million words. I am informed by them what knows that in time, when it is printed, it may take three volumes, albeit individually slimmer tomes. That was a hard one to write and we were tired by then.

But it was worth it.

Addendum: Yesterday at work I found hidden away on my computer the post Rome de-brief for Cardinal Remigius. I came very close to a giggle loopp re-reading that. Particularly the descriptions of the antics of one Luciano: Assassin of Narbonne and the creeping thought in Remigius's mind that everyone in Il Duomo other than himself might just be mentally defective. They weren't. They just weren't playing precisely to the plan Remigius thought they were.

Mind you, Luciano was potty. He wasn't meant to be, but he was. I am being charitable five years on.