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Catch the twistedness while you can – Lord of the Peeps: The Fellowship of the Peep

You know Peeps – the little marshmallow horrors that emerge around springtime. One of the funniest things ever brought to my attention when I still worked at the F/SF shop was a site devoted to Peep research.

The LOTP site has already moved once. It’s only up to Chapter Four, but it shows promise, having already done the Isildur flashback scene during Gandalf’s research of the Ring at Minas Tirith quite amusingly. The battle at Mount Doom from the Prologue was good for a laugh, too.

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So the bedroom�s now a pale cream colour, and the furniture has been rearranged to create a nicer feel. We like it.

There�s also about a foot of snow out there, which means that my husband is home today, and, coincidentally, snow tires must be put on the car. I just love it when a plan comes together like this. I think Ikea is in our future, too. We need a new stick-and-board shelf to put next to the fireplace for videos and DVDs so we can use the existing stick-and-board shelves for, er, books.

And� this morning when I downloaded my e-mail, I was offered a section editor position on the staff of a new entertainment magazine slated to debut next spring. Paid.

Blink, blink.

And it isn�t even eight-thirty yet.

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Oh, great. Now it’s freezing raining. (What’s the active tense for that, anyway? Without saying something dreadfully formal such as, “Our current precipitation consists of freezing rain”, I mean.)

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Hmm. My site meter seems to be down.

Going to check it out, I discovered some interesting referrals for this owlyblog, such as:

– bad writers (fourth hit out of 1,400,000, alas; this is hardly encouraging for someone who is a writer by profession)
– dip pens
– owl costume pattern
– inflatable pony popped (for which I am number one of only two hits)
– Peek Freans cookies (number 57 of many, many, many – why on earth did they click on me?)
– Alice in Wonderland mythic forest

Unfortunately, when you do a search for “good writers” I’m nowhere to be seen…

The Light at the End of the Tunnel

I’m in the home stretch.

Yes, last night I sat down to write. Two hours and eighteen pages later (no, I don’t know how that particular time-bending miracle occurred), I’m a breath away from 40K.

Now, my chapters tend to the 4,500 word count. Assuming I�m aiming for the 50K mark as a finish line (which I�m not � it will end when it ends� so long as there�s a minimum of 50K involved!), that means I have about eleven hundred words for two longish chapters, or three shortish chapters, or two regular chapters and an epilogue, which is looking like the best solution at the moment. And the wonder of it is, the story’s actually at the right point for two chapters to end it at the correct pace.

I’m really stunned that everything seems to be falling into place, because I certainly didn�t plan it. It’s like, er, magic. Or something.

And speaking of magic… only twelve hours until Chamber of Secrets! Before that, though, I have to keep an appointment with my optometrist in the wilds of the West Island, to figure out if my prescription needs updating or whether I just have to wear my glasses full-time now.