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June 15, 2006
KAB-MIA
This is me last night, modelling a fabulous "toque" (beanie) and fingerless gloves made for me by Treefen. It was pretty cold then, but it's going to be even colder tonight. Rumours persist of an overnight low of just 3 measly degrees Celsius.
Also note in this pic: that's my new book I'm pointing at, UMBRA. It's currently up to 110,000 words, and the new improved ending is coming along slowly. A few days ago I had to chop out all of the old ending, which was about 5000 words. Even though I knew that material was crap, it felt like a major blow when I cut it. I was moping about for days afterwards.
As it happens, I've been doing a lot of moping lately, feeling subpar, glum and at times bitterly unhappy. And, as always, for no really good reason, other than the usual neurochemical whackiness in my stupid brain. It makes for lousy book progress, and at such times I generally feel like it also makes lousy blog fodder. "Hmm, I'm depressed today. Well, it feels bad. It feels like when you wake up and you have to walk to school, and it's just raining and pouring and cold--and it's the 100th straight day it's been like this, with no end in sight." Imagine that, and that's what it's like in my head a lot of the time.
On the other hand, at least I'm not getting headaches like I used to. I might actually be in an actual "post-headache" phase of life now. This appears largely to do with a migraine prevention drug one of my doctors put me on called Sandomigran. I take a whole bunch of this stuff each night. It makes me a bit sleepy, but it appears to short-circuit a lot of the headache nonsense. Often I can feel the usual "pre-headache" build-up starting to occur--but then nothing comes of it and I wind up a few hours later sitting around wondering where the stupid headache I was supposed to get got off to.
One thing that did cheer me up no end was last Monday night, watching the World Cup coverage on SBS. The World Cup is a soccer tournament. You may have heard something about it lately. I gather it's quite popular. On Monday night the Australian Socceroos played Japan's national team. And, after a very worryingly long time in which the Japanese team had one (very dubious) goal on us, the Socceroos struck back with three goals within the final fifteen minutes of the match. It was a breathtaking thing to witness. I felt all overcome. Australia hasn't had a team in the World Cup finals since 1974, and on that occasion we got bundled out immediately, scoreless. Now we're at the top of our group, and in line to face the Brazilian team on Sunday night. I'll be sitting up in the middle of the night, watching, and no one will be more surprised by this than me. I never used to be interested in sports like this, but I must say this soccer/football thing is growing on me.
Last, I mentioned recently that I was involved in a live three-way radio thing for DragonPage. It was lots of fun--even if, because of scheduling hassles it was in the tiny wee hours of the night for me--and now the hosts of the show have produced a downloadable podcast of the event. Get thee hence here to read more about it, and to download the file (fair warning: it's a big file, and may take a while to download on a slow connection).
Posted by adrian at June 15, 2006 07:14 PM
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Good to hear the new novel is coming along, even better that you're finally getting on top of the headaches. I hope they stay away and the new ending does the trick.
I finished Eclipse last night. Six weeks of waiting for Amazon to stock it as a special order, another 2 1/2 weeks for it to arrive from across the ocean, but finally it arrived. Hooray! If only I hadn't been eating my breakfast (porridge, it's cold it Sydney too) when I started to read chapter 15... It's hard to put down a book when you're enjoying it, but that day I decided I had to put Eclipse down and finish breakfast before finishing Ch 15. Or else I'd regret it. Aside from that it was great mate!
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at June 16, 2006 11:13 AM
I was going to send an e-mail your way today if you hadn't updated the blog... I was getting a bit worried by your absence.
I sure do understand the whole mopey depression crap. I'm suffering right along with you lately. Glad to hear the headaches are in retreat for now.
Posted by: Terry at June 16, 2006 07:27 AM
wow! i just heard your way cool aussie accent! nice interview. do you notice slightly different accents from east coast to west coast australia?
Posted by: river selkie at June 16, 2006 02:01 AM
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