Lantern

[lathany]

I found this on the BBC website and thought it was a superb story.

Today Bea ran her first RPG for me (she did one for bateleur yesterday). Given that she's seven, it wasn't too bad and had a character system (d6 based - although she seemed to think anything that wasn't a six counted as a fail) and a bunch of disappearing robots. However I'm not so convinced by the prospect of taking my elderly parents to Jupiter with me to fight some evil Robot King. We'll see if part 2 ever happens.

I re-read Mourn's Gift yesterday and today, finishing at lunchtime. (My first novel written some years ago - for anyone I haven't told.) I discovered one really nice thing about it - I love it; despite being far more aware of its flaws than I was at the time. Much as I want to be published, I realised that it's a really great thing to enjoy my own work and I'd rather never be published than turn out stuff that I don't really like. Not a surprising epitaph, I guess, but still a welcome one.

Finally, with my parents due in a few days, bateleur and I started the cleaning with a blitz on both bathrooms. I love a clean house, but such a thing involves a constant battle against entropy and hippos.

Comments

[cuthbertcross.livejournal.com]

Hooray for 7 year old GMs!

I can't wait until babysaxon starts doing that sort of thing - the closest we have currently is re-enactments of the three little pigs 9using the wendy house) , or the Billy Goats Gruff when she makes a bridge out of cushions and then instructs anyone about to be a certain part. scarysaxon is sometimes roped in too, but usually declines to do what she is told unless there's food involved.

[dracunculus.livejournal.com]

That's how I feel about the novel I'm (still!) writing now. I just want to finish it. I don't care if it's never published: I would just be so pleased if I manage to tell this whole story from beginning to end. And if it's a story that still makes me happy years from now--well! That would be amazing.

So I think completing any project of that length (and I know you've done several) is a really big accomplishment and something of which you should be very proud.

[lathany.livejournal.com]

:-)

Many thanks!

You're nearly there though, aren't you? Say when you are and I'll go back and read it from the start!