An Unexpected Hobbit

Well after all the waiting (I booked tickets back in the middle of November, oh yes precious we didsies) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was unveiled to me and my friend Zoe today and it did not disappoint.  Crammed full of deadly orcs, villianous goblins, monstrous wargs and sizzling irishmen and the delectible Cate Blanchett, the film rollops along with all the fun and excitement of any of the sequel films.  One must not think of the Hobbit as a lesser work merely because it came first and it's not as long, the book crams its plot into its pages, so there's more than enough to go around for the duration this the first installment of the trilogy.  I don't want to go into too many spoilers here but there's something in this for die-hard LOTR fans as well as the newcomers.  Plus the fantastic scenary is a visual banquet for the eyes, much is made of the locations, there's a real sense of connection between the journey of Thorin's company and the one the Fellowship travelled upon, indeed much effort is made to link them up whenever possible, from Hobbiton to Rivendell there is a sense of homecoming for me as a fan of the Ring trilogy.  That said Hobbit has its own identity, it's own tone and it's own story to tell.  Much effort is made to recreate Gollum, one of the highlights of LotR, although here we see perhaps a happier Gollum, more care free and even happy and yet the danger of the character is never far away.  The ending of the first installment was more or less where I felt it might be after re-reading the book last month.  There's still so much of the journey to go and unlike our heroes I don't think the worst is behind them...

well that was November

and I completed NaNoWriMo for the fifth year running, despite a rather slow start, now comes all the editing to make the thing presentable.  I do try to edit the worst mistakes as I go along, but even so I always find some things that need changing/amending/deleting or even enhancing.  One story a few years ago I needed to swap quite a few scenes around because I'd taken a break while writing and put a logical error in it after resuming writing and I didn't notice it for nearly six months!  Plus a fresh look at a story after a little time away from it does add perspective.

Happy Birthday Benny

http://www.bigfinish.com/releases/quickinfo/many-happy-returns-775

renowned archaeologist, raconteur and barfly Bernice Summerfield 20 years young today, well at least her adventures are, and despite the release of the adaptation of Love and War last month the festivities continue in this special audio release :)

pilgrim's bounty

mostly done the holiday quests already :)

doing nanowrimo

it's coming along well this year, not quite so rushed as last year, taking my time a little more, as I don't want to lose any character moments in the rush to complete plot points

having a lie in tomorrow

with any luck I'll sleep through till Monday!

weird dreams last night

I dreamed that I was waiting for a lift to arrive in Newcastle but it was taking ages so I took the stairs instead, only to find some sort of warping in the fabric of space was making the stairwell wider and narrower, then when I got upstairs there was no door for the floor I want and when I went downstairs I ended up emerging out of a door next to Sainsbury's in Framwellgate Moor!
Then I dreamed that I still had my old Nissan Micra from ten years ago, and that I owned two homes.

river wrong

I should have realised with all the rain yesterday the river would be up high, but even I didn't think it'd have gone over so impressively, I've seen in higher, but where I normally park was totally cut off by the water.  I think I'll take the bus in tomorrow, as I doubt all that water will be gone by tomorrow morning.

grotty day

it's been a very rainy & windy day but not imo the month of rain in one day that was being bandied around the interweb last night, I hope it clears up soon as I have meetings to go to tomorrow...

World of Warcraft expansion pack The Mists of Pandaria is out tomorrow :)  I've got the deluxe edition pre-ordered as the extras really make it worth the extra imo :)

QI was good tonight

very funny & very vulgar!

so tired

*yawns*

weird naughty dream last night

all I'm going to say is that I was chained upside down by my ankles with Jason Momoa and Lucy Liu who weren't...!

nice lie in

up at 9a today, not 5am like yesterday :)

well that was a 1/2 boring day off

got almost all my housework finished (after not doing it for 3 months) and I made up for it with some WoW :)

day off tomorrow

I medically need it too, too back I have to go out to the post office, I'd just like to spend all day in bed!

big tea

a nice curry & a tiramasu, that's me stuffed full until next week!

shopping

went shopping after work, managed to resist the urge to buy chocolate, although I did buy 2 small tirimasu's.  got some shloer, trying the rose, it's ok on the whole although I do prefer the white grape

quiet day today

didn't do much, gregg's for lunch, as I needed to get out for a walk and I had an afternoon meeting

Being Referred to Surgeon

After coming out to my parents as trans nearly 3 years ago and living full time for over 2 years and being on hormones for over 1 year I'm being referred to a trans gender surgeon for a consultation re my options for M2F surgery :)  Not sure what they'll say yet but I'm sure they'll be able to advise me on what's best for me.  Personally speaking I'd like the 'full monty' but if it's too risky then there's other options.  Considering the amount of damage I've caused myself down there over the years, I'll spare the details, I'll be grateful if at the very least they can stop the constant physical pain I'm in, but far more grateful obviously if they're able to install all the right plumbing I should have had from birth.

Diva!

I picked up the latest issue today, it's a good magazine with lots of interesting articles and it's got a lot of great insight that's good for me not just as a LGBT rep but as a bisexual woman who's attracted more towards other women than men.

The World of Poo

I picked up one of the three new Terry Pratchett books today, the WH Smith's exclusive collector's edition at that, and it was half price too!

New Bra

It's one of those fancy modern bras that can be worn without a top!  It's black with sparkly bits and while not underwired it looks comfy enough, I'll give it a try out tomorrow (under a top, I don't want to scare people off with my huge belly) and see how it goes.

lodgey

added more bits & bobs here and there over the last week or so, let JMac read a page of it on Friday just gone, it was a rough first draft for a character's speech in DM'sH:TK, which I've yet to plot out, never mind write, so i hope he's kind and sympathetic to the prose after reading it...

lodge of the damned

written a couple more bits of this book, it's taking a long time to put everything together for it

quiet few days

busy at work, early nights watching QI and Wonders of the Universe bluray with sexy Brian Cox :)

The Gods of War/Goddess of Love saga

The timeline sort of runs

The Goddess of Love - Part One
The Goddess of Love - Part Two
The Goddess of Love - Part Three
The Gods of War - Part One
The Gods of War - Part Two
Neptune: Ocean Invasion (it's actually set during Part Two)
The Gods of War - Part Three

The Gods of War - Part Four


but bear in mind that The Goddess of Love books are more of a dry run prototype for what the Gods of War books would become, which is why it took so long to write TGOL because they needed six more years of work doing to them to get them ready for publishing as they were a very different approach to the characters and the various species and in some cases characters, anyway the version of Venus that appears in TGOW1 is a new aspect to those in TGOL.

more edity goodness

working on Goddess of Love 3 and listening to Iron Maiden :)

bit of editing tonight

then Robots of Death before bed, must get these current 2 books finished this weekend...

Tomb of the Cybermen

last night, with the new commentary, not a bad story, not one of my faves it must be said but no where near as bad as Genesis of the Daleks or Fear Her.

Three Doctors

I decided to watch The Three Doctors and very enjoyable it was too :)

Doctor Who tonight...

...but which one? decisions, decisions.  The Tomb of the Cybermen, The Three Doctors or The Robots of Death?

got my femmy gel

finally, a mere five days after submitting my script I have my new stock of hormones :)

again no feminising drugs

hopefully they'll have them tomorrow, but I doubt I'll be able to collect them as I need to go to the post office to get a parcel and tomorrow is the only late opening day of the week, it's a tricky one...

home from work

still no girly drugs at the chemist's though :(

bit of quick editing this morning

to The Succubi: Milly's Battle, just to get the tense right

finished the 2nd draft

of TGOL-P3, there's still one bit of story out there on one of my old discs that I want to try and find so I'm holding off doing any more in the hope I can find it and add it in as it's a nice little character bit and helps explain a few things in the 2nd half of the book, it's not vital it's recovered but it is referred to a couple of times.  If only I'd archived this bit better than parts 1 & 2...

still editing

TGOL-P3, added some more stuff, also thought previously lost, and have taken out some of the stranger bits, although I'm leaving the small bit written in script for as is, because it's meant be be strange.

good morning world

a great lie in today :)

moving on

getting the second draft of The Goddess of Love - Part Three down atm, this was throught lost but it turned up :)

writing & editing

I've completed the first draft of The Succubi: Milly's Battle and I've finished editing the second draft of The Goddess of Love - Part Two

also listening to great music :)

off work

until Monday :)

The Sarah Jane Adventures - Season 5

got the Blu Ray today, so that's tonight's viewing sorted

I have a new mobile phone

it's nice and lilac and touch screen :)

early night tonight :)

had me tea and I'm on earlies this week so it's time for some zzzz's once I write down my great movie idea onto some note paper :)

Good Morning

I have not one not three but two cuppas this morning on account that it's cold and I like a nice morning cuppa :)

listening to Anthrax

The Greater of Two Evils, disc 2 :)

six chapters edited now

and another eleven to go and this is just to spot all the major spelling errors, once this is done it's time to go back through it to spot all the smaller errors and any continunity glitches, then once more looking at syntax and character language uses, to make sure each character speaks in the same way through the whole book and suddenly doesn't go from using big long words to talking a lot of slan and then back again as I found once in a story a few years ago.

half day off work

put diesel in the car, did some shopping, got my meds and now having a cuppa :)

got 2 more chapters edited

for Goddess of Love - Part 2, then I watched Star Trek as a reward :)

awake early

well for my late shift, having soup for breakfast :)

home again

and I'm ready for bed after doing a very full day's work.

editing done

for TGOL - PO, it took 4 years to write and over eight years on and off to edit it!

finishing the editing

for The Goddess of Love - Part One, this is something I wrote a very long time agon and I'm still working on the editing of it after all this time.  It's over 600 pages long and so needs a lot of going through to spot all the spelling mistakes and syntax errors I made while learning to write.

writing a new book

The Lodge of the Damned is on hold atm as I'm on writing The Succubi: Milly's Story, a short novel based on but not following on from on my earlier novel The Succubi: Charlotte's War.  It picks up a couple of years after the defeat of the Limbo and features new characters and new threats, although Charlotte does pop up at one point.  I just really wanted to expand that universe and bring in some new ideas and dangers.

another great lie in

have to shower and tart myself up earlier today though.  Maybe my purple trousers and strappy top and my big woolly cardie as well, as it feels cold this morning.

lazy saturday

I've had a decadent lie in already, half eight!  I don't plan on getting out my nightie now until at least noon :)

last one this week

then a 3 day weekend :)

3 down 2 to go

then the week's over and I have a nice 3 day weekend before doing it all over again...

remembered my girly drugs today

they are useful to make my boobies and arse grow :)

watched Sarah Millican DVD last night

I've never laughed out loud so much in ages :)

tired

and I forget to put my estrogen gel on again, it's not the best form of medication, especially when I'm late for work...

new lulu

I've had to reboot my lulu, my old account was so messed up and all the half-finished projects had buried all my finished books and I accidentally deleted my online store so I really had to start again and I hope to spend more time this year writing so it makes sense to start the year this way.

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/Rachel1973