Six Months On and Not Counting, or: How I Stopped Worrying About Deadlines and Continued to Ignore Word Counts

Six months? Already? Well, certainly as the calendar reads, but who ever believes those things anyway? What follows is a brief interview with a mirror…

Are you finished?

In short… no, “Glade” is not ‘finished’.

Despite having largely written “Glade”, I cannot bring myself to call it ‘finished’. There are a few more scenes that need to be removed, altered, or added. My commitment to this process has been at the expense of almost all other things in my life (this blog being one of them). I’ve also avoided that shady lot on Twitter in recent months too.

Any reason why?

Patterns

I know. Easter was a few weeks back.

At the time, I was too busy to post the images and so I’ve had to wait until now. Basically, these are painted, hard-boiled, eggs that I made for an egg hunt in the hamlet near where I am. I had to do them at the last minute and found myself somewhat pressed for time. Therefore, I repeated the same design I did from a few years back (for a friend’s 30th birthday raffle). Since the eggs were not for display, it made more sense to go with a simple design rather than something more elaborate.

I took sixty brown eggs, hard-boiled them, and then sprayed each group of ten different colours. While they were drying I sliced some electrical tape into strips of slightly varied thickness. Once dry, I applied the tape to the coloured eggs and then sprayed them all white. I gave them two layers.

A Valentine’s Tale

So, here’s the last Valentine’s poem I’ll post. I wrote this for someone back in 2005.

Despite the lack of reaction it garnered at the time, I thoroughly enjoyed writing this. I tested it out on a class of children I was teaching at the time and they all loved it. So much so, that I had to continually recite it for several weeks afterwards! Ha! The best critical reception I’ve had 😉