The Girdle of Melian

unny thing about social media -- posting announcements across various platforms when a major event takes place. (Which makes me wonder, why do we say "change my status update" instead of "update my status"?) Harking back to my Belated Announcement ...A joyful development from last week!: Not quite the usual A Round of Words in 80 Days update I suppose... Hope everyone else has had an exciting week!

logfests! There are two really good ones coming up, one in September and one in October. September's is hosted by Ninja Captain Alex ! "Everyone has a favorite movie or band that no one else has ever heard about. For whatever reason, they remain undiscovered and underrated. Now is your chance to tell the world about this obscure treasure! On Monday, September 22, post about your favorite unknown –- MOVIE –- BAND/ARTIST –- TV SHOW –- BOOK Post about one or all four – dealer's choice!" I'm thinking I might not have time to do this blogfest on the day, so I'll quickly note four items today! Movie : Waking Ned Devine Band : Marion TV Show : If you haven't started watching Outlander -- based on Diana Gabaldon's wonderful series of books -- what are you waiting for? Book : I could pick so many! Anything by Somerset Maugham makes a fascinating read. Paul Gallico's The Snow Goose is absolutely lovely. And for 50s/60s...

ave you ever lost some of your writing? Asking because I missed posting for the Insecure Writer's Support Group last week, and I happened to see this tumblr post by Neil Gaiman just now: I haven't lost writing in a while, thankfully, except for last week's Wallace fiasco. I've heard horrible stories of authors changing the names of their Scrivener files and then being unable to locate them. Mine was two different things: text in PlainText on the iPad that didn't sync to Dropbox because the wifi was not on, but that also for some reason did not save in the PlainText app itself; and the next day myself highlighting all the text and trying to click on "copy" and then realising I'd pressed the letter n by accident, and then pressing two more buttons before I discovered where the "undo" button was (and undo on the iPad only goes back one step), thereby losing everything I'd typed in that session. That was nothing, however, a mere lo...

or the first time in a long time I've... got nothing. I've mentioned all the intriguing books on my wishlist and TBR piles... I've celebrated other bloggers (and I still owe so many visits!)... I've gotten a little further on my main ROW80 goal of typing up the Wallace letters (following another wrangle with losing text on the iPad, this time through my own fault)... I've mostly caught up with or at least minimised my daily life task lists (I still carry too much paper and too many to do lists and general stuff in my purse)... I'm starting to get the hang of things more and more at my new job (can't believe it's been four months already!)... and the weather has gone back to lovely dry warmth and sunshine after a weird two weeks of cloudiness and rain. This is usually about the time I make the mistake of signing up for a blogfest, to give me a theme to focus on. But then I fall further behind in commenting! There is one main event this week, of cour...