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Those few thousand words right at the end were the hardest ever and i'm still not even to the last, final scene.

Wow, what a month.

I have more plot holes than ever, serious character flaws, inaccurate research. 

I have a psychopath or two (no make that at least three), conspiracy theories, fairies (don't call them fairies) in combat trousers forming a resistance movement and a small creature called Skinpuddle.

I have a group of coders who refuse to stop swearing and drinking copious amounts of beer.

I have an old evil returning to the world and i have a brave - but flawed - protagonist who is destined to fail.

i have sore fingers, a tired mind, a pile of ironing that is scaring the Labrador and a very forgiving family.

I have new friends, a quietly dying laptop and a bad habit to hit ctrl+s  every 2 sec when i'm typing

I have a big rough first draft and a big fat smile on my face.

really just to apologise - i should be posting more - and my vox will really come into it's own when i get to the editing stage - so please stay with me...but am on a post 35k high tonight and attempting to keep my head down as I plough onto the finish, deep breath...ok

    Ok, quick edit here - i've been reliably informed that the character, Iagan (referred to here) shouldn't ride a BMW -  instead he should have a  MV Agusta - to be completely accurate a MV Agusta F4-1000R.

MV_Agusta_F4_1000R

Who am i to argue, looks just the ticket!

Oh i soooo want one of these - but seemed an ideal prop for the book.

voodoo

How about this for the my poisonous character's totem:

Magpie (Pica-pica)

One for sorrow
Two for mirth
Three for a funeral
Four for a birth
Five for heaven
Six for hell
Seven's the Devil his own sel'
Eight for a wish
Nine for a kiss
Ten for a bird that you won't want to miss.

I doubt if it's only me - but i do need a decent soundtrack when I'm writing. I been working on a series of playlists on my ipod that reflect the mood of each scene - then i can really lose myself in a sense of place.

I have noticed that one track is appearing more than others at the moment - so I suppose, sums up the entire project - it's an old one but well worth a listen to get a flavour.

Showbiz

Location 03 is a place - village out of time, full of enchantment.

Based in parts, and I suppose inspired by Avebury, but other places as well.

village

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Info: This is a video from dove's campaign for real beauty where you see a girl get a heavy makeup and then "fixed" in photoshop before she's beauty enough to fit the ad.

druid magic

and I'm writing about it at the moment so needed some inspiration.

yeahhaaaaa!

I've just written in a new key character and i lurve him already, ladies & gentlemen please meet - Iagan Bhatair -

( Bhatair  - From the Scottish version of WALTER - From a Germanic name meaning "ruler of the army", composed of the elements wald "rule" and heri "army". A famous bearer of this name was Sir Walter Scott, a novelist from Scotland and the author of 'Ivanhoe' and other notable works.

Iagan  - Modern form of the Scottish name Aodhagán, From the old Irish name Áed, which meant "fire".)

Not a nice person really.

But integral to the plot so here he is.

Rides a bmw motorbike, has an ipod, speaks with a soft highland burr, kind, friendly eyes, some would say 'boyish' grin, open and immediately trustworthy.

Well, that is, until he plunges the fractured stem of a crystal glass into your eye.

Definitely twisted.