desperance ([info]desperance) wrote,
2006-06-22 14:20:00
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Solstitial hauntings, hurrah!

Well, that was fun. Myself and two good friends (and oh, isn't it nice to have friends? 'Scuse me while I come over all sentimental...) reading new ghost stories at the Lit & Phil, to a sell-out crowd of interested people. Sean O'Brien and Gail-Nina Anderson were the friends, and the first half of the evening; I went after the break, 'cos my story was still twice as long as either of theirs. I haven't entirely lost the art of the short short story, but my natural length at the moment does seem to be long. Even after I've been savage with the cutting.

Anyway, all three stories went down well (it is also nice to be complimented; but accepting a compliment with grace is an art, and I don't have it; I go "Awww..." and kick the table-leg, or nearest adult equivalent)[NB - anyone asking what is the nearest adult equivalent to a table-leg will find that the answer is themselves, and be kicked]. And my other friend (look, I have three!) [info]samarcand sold books at the back (he has also posted about the event, and may give a less prejudicial overview), and half a dozen of us went out for a curry after, and all in all it was a thoroughly good night.

And today's good news is that I have got past yesterday's stymie with the book, and am writing again. Indeed, I am writing now. Jendre is standing in the street with a dwarf and two dogtooths, in the rain, in the night; and should not be left there all unbidden, so...

[Chaz lights out for the territory]

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[info]devonellington

June 22 2006, 17:12:18 UTC 5 years ago

I'm so glad it went well!

[info]desperance

June 22 2006, 17:36:33 UTC 5 years ago

It really did, thanks, hon; my favourite kind of gig, where writers and audience are sharing the experience and enjoying it on much the same level. I think it helped that none of us behind the table (there is this extraordinarily long table, that I'm fairly sure they must have built in situ, because they would never have got it up the stairs, and it's our equivalent of being onstage), not one of us had seen one of the other stories before, so we met them on exactly the same terms as everyone else. Sean's was a pink gin, bitter and floral and intense; Gail's was a gin and tonic, fizzy and intoxicating; mine - well, I can't actually think of a gin-based metaphor for mine. Shame on me.

[info]samarcand

June 23 2006, 08:18:03 UTC 5 years ago

Although it isn't gin based (as far as I know) yours was definitely Pim's (Pims?) with a cyanide chaser...

[info]desperance

June 23 2006, 08:56:06 UTC 5 years ago

Pimms - and it is actually gin-based, so thank you, that'll do nicely.

[info]poesmother

June 23 2006, 12:33:35 UTC 5 years ago

Hauntings

Did you know that your link to the Lit & Phil isn't working?

[info]desperance

June 23 2006, 13:08:04 UTC 5 years ago

Re: Hauntings

Nope, didn't know that. Thanks for pointing it out, but there's not much I can do just now; the URL's correct, it's the site that's down. Don't know why, and I don't do telephoning. Next time I'm in, if the situation still obtains, I'll chase it up...

[info]shewhomust

June 24 2006, 17:24:05 UTC 5 years ago

Link

Nope, there's an error in the link, which is staying internal: did you remember to put in the http?

No error in the evening, however, which was excellent. Sorry we couldn't stay for curry, but we had a tide to catch...

[info]desperance

June 24 2006, 17:40:18 UTC 5 years ago

Re: Link

Eww - so there was! Apologies, all (but bizarrely, at the time I was checking it, the Lit & Phil's site was also and separately down, which is how the confusion arose...).

Sorted now.

Tide/curry, curry/tide: I can understand the dilemma. So long as it was a dilemma. I'd hate to think you weren't tempted.
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