From Twitter 08-24-2010

• 08:42:09: @MarkRHunter Just about. Looks like the rain has gone away today, so hopefully I'll stay dry!
  
• 08:42:39: @janjonesauthor They were supposed to be discussing how scary and mysterious everything was but I gave up and made them fall asleep
  
• 10:10:52: One day I'm just going to accept that there are no decent jobs in Cambridge and resign myself to staying at the Institute forever
  
• 10:10:57: But not today!
  
• 10:13:19: No, okay, maybe today
  
• 10:26:11: @cherose228 Morning you! I'm keeping my fingers crossed for that, but in the mean time I have a snake to cater for, lol
  
• 10:26:46: @K8JohnsonAuthor Keep going! I'm officially in a size 12 skirt today that didn't fit me at all two weeks ago
  
• 10:36:52: @cherose228 Nine cats?! I bet feeding time at your house is a total riot!
  
• 10:41:03: @K8JohnsonAuthor I guess it varies. I probably didn't lose more than 3lb on the first phase, but it got rid of some nasty IBS problems (TMI)
  
• 10:43:47: Yes! After many mysterious delays, my copy of Kiss Me Deadly has arrived!
  
• 10:45:10: I say mysterious, but it was entirely the fault of my bank for sending my new visa card to Manchester instead of Cambridge
  
• 10:47:05: @K8JohnsonAuthor Turns out I ate too much chocolate and um ... chocolate. Goddamn, I miss chocolate. That's my one complaint about the diet
  
• 10:59:40: @K8JohnsonAuthor I never ate much fruit before I started this, now I'm wolfing it down. I was desperate for something sweet by day six
  
• 11:01:03: @K8JohnsonAuthor Still no substitute for a giant box of M&S rocky road bites but I'm determined to get back in my thin person clothes
  
• 11:02:05: @K8JohnsonAuthor Nah, just that I'm greedy, I think
  
• 11:18:11: Curses! Befriending my brothers on Facebook means now the whole family knows how much I swear!
  
• 11:24:02: @cherose228 Lol, I do get told off for swearing on my blog every now and then
  
• 11:32:49: @cherose228 Hell yeah! The book my agent is shopping for me at the moment is laden with Anglo-Saxon. It's filthy
  
• 11:49:57: @cherose228 Eek, don't ask! This book nearly drove me to quit writing altogether. If it never sells, I'll burn my laptop
  
• 14:29:03: @cherose228 Alright, for you, I'll keep going!
  
• 15:46:38: Hi, new Twitter followers! I feel the need to reiterate: I am not the girl from Beverly Hills 90210. Thanks!
  
• 16:14:52: @LABurtonhorror Why? What's up?
  
• 21:39:30: @Valkyrie48 Thank you ^_^ Beavering away as we speak!
  

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The End May Be Nigh?

I wrote 2k yesterday and passed the 50k mark on BLOOD HUNT. Look at me go! I was going to push ahead for 51k since I only needed 300 more words, but then Ket rather unceremoniously shed his skin, and we had to marvel over him. It was pretty cool - we knew he was due to shed, but I didn't realise he would literally just peel out of his skin in a couple of minutes. He seemed very proud of himself afterwards, as well he should be, I suppose. And that got me all excited about writing about snake shape-shifters and how they could shift by just shedding, and after that I was over-stimulated and had to go to bed. Because, you know, I'm five.

 

50703 / 70000 words. 72% done!

Anyway, I'm really hoping to get this first draft wrapped up in the next week or so. I know I'm not giving myself a massive amount of time, and I certainly won't rush if I can't do it, but I have a three-day-weekend this weekend, so that's one extra day of nothing but writing. It can happen!

In other news, I've got an old short story I'm thinking of submitting to a Static Movement anthology. I'm vascillating because it's very much a paranormal romance and not in my usual vein, and I'm considering a pseudonym? I don't know if having a pseudonym makes me a pretentious wanker though. It's something I've been toying with for a while, especially the past week or so, since I have some ideas that are outside the usual "Naomi Clark" stuff (even there even us a "Naomi Clark vein" yet; I don't think I have enough published work out there to have a recognisable voice and style yet). I'm not sure it's really that worthwhile though. I'm pretty sure you at least have to be world-famous before you start having multiple-pen names. Thoughts? Suggestions? Insults?