Monday, October 26, 2009

Fairies

When I'm too tired to write, it's not because I'm too tired to write. A creeping crankiness dissuades me from any but the most dreary thoughts, staining my writing with a dull disquietude. I can write tired, that is no real issue. But through this net of "eh" I struggle, or rather fail to bother to struggle.

I have been reading. The three Wee Free Men books. Not that they take a lot of effort, together they probably make a Pratchett and a half. I hadn't gotten several references to his other novels in them, the first time. The Goddess Anoia, and Groats, and Where's My Cow? to start. I could do with a mass of ugly blue fairies in kilts, who fight, drink and swear, and fight anything around them with great gusto.

Maybe I'll start imagining them at work. Crivens!


Moby continued to watch throughout yesterday, and more today as well. At one point he lunged, right into the screen. I felt terrible for laughing so hard, really I did.

10 comments:

Dale said...

(o)

Rosie said...

Moby is just doing his job, it's in his contract...

The Crow said...

(O)

:)

Phil Plasma said...

I just finished reading a Ludlum book (The Janson Directive).

I don't find I am ever too tired to write, however, I am occasionally very much uninspired. I feel it is a good mental exercise to write every day, so on the days that I am uninspired I still try to bring myself to write something.

Alan Richardson said...

(O)

tristan said...

re-reading terry pratchett always pays because the stories are so delightfully structured and there are so many jokes that are worth repeating ... and he's so supremely humane

Pacian said...

Cats are one of the few animals, along with humans, that seem to have a sense of when they've embarrassed themselves.

backstreeter said...

I enjoy your writing

Zhoen said...

Rosie,
His sacred duty as household deity.

Phil,
Exactly, but I've been noticing a whiny strain in my posts of late, and try to avoid too much of that.

Thrup,
Welcome.

tristan,
Quite so. Great compassion for even his most difficult and smelly characters. (ie Nobby.)

Pacian,
Dogs are just embarrassed when they've been caught, not for doing bad. Cats do know, and won't admit it, but you can tell.

60
tnx

herhimnbryn said...

Wee ugly men in kilts, now there's a thought!