Procrastinating
January 19th 2004 -
Procrastinating
I have been quite procrastinatory lately, even more than usual. The weekend was filled with much time in which I could have been doing many useful things and instead went out of my way not to do anything. Much of it was spent wandering around the house daydreaming. Fortunately, I was able to be useful on Saturday by participating in the readthrough of “Prisoner’s Dilemma”, along with Kyla and David and Rob and Jon & Kate. It took most of the day to get through the remaining 30k words, but we did it without too much effort, largely thanks to the fact that it was rather good and had many imaginative Prisoner moments, twists, etc. that answered most of our objections to various plot “problems” that we thought might be present. So, good.
It was actually very inspiring, though this didn’t mean that I did any writing on Saturday night or Sunday morning – Jon & Kate and I went to a nearby party that Anna was at and we ate much dessert, then groaning and ill went home and collapsed in a heap. Sunday was very lazy indeed, as I suddenly had a desire to reread “Ender’s Game”. I went to Galaxy bookshop and bought it and read it, and then played various games with Chris & Amanda & Andrea and ate lots more (including the rather excellent Lindt Toffee Chocolate, which I had not seen before) and that was the weekend.
David C Says:
January 19th, 2004 at 10:17 pm
Testing, testing…
Yo!
I’ve been wanting to procrastinate lately, but have had to put it off due to workload. However, it was good to see everyone on the weekend.
I see you’ve named the subject of this book. I’m never sure what’s secret or not, so didn’t do so (I still haven’t named my own book I’ve been muttering about on lj, though it looks like that might change as of tomorrow).
Finally, here’s a picture I mentioned to you (though it appears to load very slowly):
http://www.lightspeedchick.com/blog/reservoirhobbits.jpg
David C
Lexifab Says:
January 20th, 2004 at 8:44 am
I wish Jon luck with the book. I’ve been seeing The Prisoner box sets on DVD around the place and am mightily tempted (I’ve still never seen most of them, but the ones I have seen were very fine TV). Tell him I’ll read it when it comes out.
"Ender’s Game" is very good, isn’t it? I read the rest of the series last year. For obvious reasons, the rest are completely different to EG, and I wasn’t sure I liked them until about halfway through the second sequel. But they are pretty good (and none of them are as good as EG).
Andrew Says:
January 20th, 2004 at 10:37 am
Crikey! I hope it’s OK – I didn’t ask Jon, but he’s got some of the details at http://www.cerebralmassage.com/Powys/Prisoner/book1.html">the Powys website.
Lexifab Says:
January 20th, 2004 at 1:29 pm
Well, let me know whether I should click on that link or not, okay?
Lexifab Says:
January 20th, 2004 at 1:30 pm
By the way, I love the photo of the hobbitses.
Andrew Says:
January 20th, 2004 at 2:36 pm
I did enjoy Ender’s Game, but was a bit disturbed by it, too. And I didn’t like the sequels at all, though I can’t remember why. I vaguely remember being more and more annoyed with Ender’s character, who I thought was a bit of a Mary-Sue.