50 shades and 67 pages.

Been on page 67 for a week. The trilogy has more than 1500 altogether. But if she is buying a 5 million house in Manhattan or London or something, then I'll live in hope and keep reading. I like her writing style, despite harsh criticisms I hear. I think she's being judged on content (and jeered) - her characters are both extreme odds and not very real. One is over egoed, while the other is just bordering on Pauline (Perils of Pauline) tied to the rail track and watching the steam train thug along in her direction. It is a lesson in how all elements of a story count. POV, person, world building, character building, right balance of character to character. Example the hero is a dickhead. He's a bully. I'd rather have Woody Allen than this bore. But he keeps chasing the heroine. I wouldn't. He has all these sexy blondes yet he's going for the mouse in the house. But don't be scathing anynone here reading this blog. She's on the NY best seller list and buying a 5 million mansion brownstone south of Huston and mannnnnnn the odds for a writer are better here than for winning the lottery!!!! At least as a writer you have half a chance. What's that? 50-1?

Drop the world just concentrate.

Outside forces are trying to interfere with my creativity. Some of them I can ignore. Others I must try. And yet others I cannot avoid. <b>So where and what do I cull. Morman, Jehovah Witnesses, Electricity sign up to a new package people. The real estate man who wants to sell my nest. Politics. I must try to avoid</b>: Politics. Grrrr. >Cannot avoid: Bills, money. Dentist. Supermarket. Don't want to avoid: Santa Claus. Hairdresser. Cleaning lady. Dog clipper. Everything else is fattening. So my advice to everynone is: Get on with it. Once you 've decided on the priorities, then the rest is just plain old creativity.

Once loved, twice shy.

As life takes on many challenges. Including just getting through the day. But if you are a writer there are more challenges. And exposing challenges because failure is just around the corner if you don't write.

Wait a minute.

I know I'm computer technically challenged but something's changed here. Will have to investigate... Feeling slightly guilty. Every day I don't post. When I do I swear I'm turning a new leaf. But seems my new leaves just get left in the recycle to garden waste bin. Yesterday I did finish something on Prudella. She's a wonderful character, and I've called the novel Manshy. She's determined not to fall in love. Why? Because that's what her mother wants. Anything her mother wants Prudella doesn't. It's a form of adult as in a relative of the teenage rebellion. I'm flying by the seat of my pants with this. I know roughly where I want to go but I want this to be a kind of Sex and the City, each chapter is a story or commentary on it's own. Stand alone. Its kind of fun but still ambling along without really getting anywhere. But at least it's gathering speed and volition of its own making.

Okay everynone

So full of joy. And how little it takes. I found a first edition book of Charles Dana Gibson dated 1904 and autographed. Charles is a famous American illustrator who is well known for his "Gibson Girl" pen and ink style. Love his things.

He is one of the best illustrators of the 1890's.

His girls are attitude-full, and probably the first sign of women coming into their own and so beautiful.

It doesn't take much to please me. But this is a joy full - on its way to me. Thanks Hilde! My American angel who will intercept the post for me and forward it on to the antipodes. Some people just won't post overseas which in today's inter world is very very colloquial but one day the global world will register well in the USA.

To tweet or not to tweet - that is the question.

I don't get it. They're all doing it and I'm the only one in the whole wide world who doesn't get the point of it. It's quite a dismal thing by the look of it. So self indulgent and in actual fact even the most famous become dismal. I don't know if it's just me but it just seems so pointless but even multi billionaires are doing it. Future Presidents and movies stars are doing it.
I have an account for it @penneyoz but I haven't indulged and here's the rub...

YET!

I have ideas.

But what are ideas without motivation.

Just a car with the tyres missing.