Is there such a thing as too much cake?

[naomi_jay]

Groan. I always eat too much when I spend the weekend at my parents'. I try to balance it out by going for long walks with Holly, but there's only so much damage I can undo. I got through a whole bag of Kettle Chips with Mum on Saturday night while we watched The Boy In the Striped Pyjamas. (The film isn't as good as the book, although bonus points for David Thewlis!) And then today there was cake and ice cream. Like, a lot of cake and ice cream. Good thing I didn't buy a whole load of new clothes last weekend ... Oh no, wait. I did.

On the plus side, I added 1000 words to the short I'm working on for Queered Fiction's gothic anthology. I've no idea if it's gothic enough, but it has a ghost and an all-girl boarding school and a chapel that was destroyed by fire in the 18th century, so... Another 1000 words or so should wrap up the first draft. And I spent a lot of time thinking about a shapeshifter novel that's been swimming around my head for the past week or so. I'd like to start working on it, if I wasn't already working on two other novels and if I wasn't planning to redraft Wild. What I really need is a sabbatical from work so I can put some real hours into all these projects.

Hmm, probably not about to happen. In the mean time, I have Friday 13th part 8 playing too loudly, so all is well.

ETA: Damn, apparently Victorian girls didn't go to boarding school. Why can't history just bend itself to my will?

Comments

[tezmilleroz.livejournal.com]

Why can't history just bend itself to my will?
It can - just label your story an "alternate history" ;-)

[summersdream.livejournal.com]

there is never enough cake... or the cake is a lie. Depends on whether or not you're standing on the scale, I think.

Well lots of authors have Victorian girls going to boarding schools a la A Little Princess. I think that's one arena where history is a bit bendy. Perhaps you can just call it "finishing school" and work it that way?

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Well, my work trousers still fit, so I guess there actually wasn't enough cake.

Finishing school might work. Thanks!