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Regarding latest story: have just hit 29 pages, currently at 15,120 words. Since I think it will end up stretching through both movies, this is probably about the halfway mark. I'm also at the point where I really want to go back and read it through to make sure I'm hitting the targets I want to hit, but that's more difficult to do without being able to print it (out of toner); I like to print it out and read it in bed, on the bus, on break at work... that is, some other, different location from the computer on my desk so I can read it with different eyes.

(I haven't been as productive as usual this week not because of a graphics job (I'm still waiting for word on that) but because my roommate's computer was having problems and I was trying to help fix it. I was able to get her data off before the hard drive died altogether. :( )

I hope that is a good enough fix! :D

I got third place at least, yay!

( These were mine. )

(I am particularly fond of the first one :) )

I have 5 entries in this challenge for bridget_stills, subject: MARK DARCY. (I hope you pick mine! Will say which are mine when voting is over.)

Otherwise, have been dealing with sudden possible hardware fail on roommate's computer, so being the Mac tech on site at home, have been doing my darndest to coax her personal data off of the hard drive and on to mine. God bless Target Disk mode.

So, the story I alluded to in the last post, it's all about ( ...'spoiler' behind the cut... )

(If you actually follow the cut, please keep mention of it to this post, in case others want to be surprised... though in reading it, it becomes evident pretty quickly who it's about.)

Thanks to freaky4minutes for sending me the link: Trouble in Paradise, a new short story by Helen Fielding.

(No, it isn't a Bridget story, but I would swear that the two old ladies at the end were Una and Pam. :) )

28 Stars Unveiled As 2010 Hollywood Walk Of Fame Honorees, including Colin Firth and Chaka Khan. =)

Long story now done. Re-reading/editing/etc., on page 34 of 45. Wish it were just a little earlier in the evening--I'd love to finish it up tonight.

Shorter story now also done. Very happy with the focus shift. Need to re-read that one too.

V. amusing photomanips. Bridget Jones' Diary on Jeremy Piven; Pride & Prejudice on Ashton Kutcher.

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ETA:

If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

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From airtos:

Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.

Bridget Jones [film/book]
It's funny, when the books came out, when the first movie came out, I really couldn't be bothered… and then back in 2003 or so, my roommate and I rented the DVD, and something about that viewing just really struck me (okay, so it was that final scene). I started to write BJD fanfic back in December of '05 (ha ha, I started that first story at work on a slow Saturday) and haven't really looked back since. It's the only real creative outlet I have right now, and I very much enjoy it.

Love
…is undefinable and is infinite, and I believe very highly in it, and in its power. Many years ago I bought a refrigerator magnet in The Castro: "It doesn't matter who we love--it only matters that we love." I feel like that is my mantra.

Relaxing
…is an elusive beast. I don't do enough of it, at least not the sort I should be away from a computer to do. I have a bookshelf filled with DVDs I've bought and not watched. I should get on that post haste. Better yet, I should put the seat back on my bicycle, fill up the tires, and get the blood to pumping. (Don't ask why the seat is off.)

Honour
We are losing our sense of honour in the modern world. I mean the sort that causes us to do the right thing because it is right, to treat others as we would want to be treated, to give each other the benefit of the doubt, to not ascribe to malice what can be explained by… well, the original quote is something like 'ignorance' or 'stupidity', but I don't want to ascribe anything to that, either.

Gentlemen
An even rarer breed, an anachronism, but then again, so are ladies. There is something to be said for manners, no matter what the calendar says which year it might be. This all ties in to the above. Also, it is alleged that they prefer blondes.

I have been kind of tired, and just a bit blue, so I haven't been very productive as late.

- One thing finished, but am rethinking the focus. So I have set it aside for a little while and will probably rewrite huge swaths of it.

- Most of the way through a new story, nearly 14,000 words. Mark / EOR from an external point of view. It's been interesting.

As promised, ( three, three, three more desktops. More *shocking* surprises. )