After you....

Not being one to rest on my novels - uh, my laurels - I went online to look for gay publishers or agents in the UK. I could send my novel to a regular agent or publisher when it's done as it's basically a crime novel, but I don't want to. I don't want it to be, uh, straightened out. 

I guess I'd rather be marginalised. :D

So I put in a Google search for gblt author's agents - only to have Google tell me that I should be searching for this - lgbt.

Okay. I guess that's what it's called - but why? Is it some kind of remnant of ladies first culture left over from when so many men opened so many doors; and sank with their ships so many times after the little woman had floated away on the lifeboat?

Dunno. I just found it interesting. It's the little things that define a culture, n'est ce pas?

Excuse me. Not being a poseur. Lol. Just relearning French and it keeps popping out. Oo-er. :D

Success at last!

I have been very remiss... look how long it is since I posted!

I wasn't feeling myself. Yeah, yeah, very funny. Seriously. I had a fit of self-doubt and a writer's block caused by therewhich - still got it from the look of that invented word - and it got to the point where I couldn't even write my blog.

All better now, though, I think I was a bit up in the air about this:

http://www.thecwa.co.uk/daggers/2013/debut.html


But all is good now as I was shortlisted and am a happy bunny. Realise I need to develop a more professional attitude if I'm going to get this book finished and, hopefully, published. No more sabotaging myself by rushing off and starting writing a bunch of other stuff! I managed to dilute myself to the point where I wasn't doing any of em.

 

 

Maggie bought the farm

 So I thought to myself, I must post on my blog about this;


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22067155


Then I didn't exactly know what to say. I mean - she wasn't a nice person. Rude, ruthless, not above engineering a war for her own ends; and she made trade unions practically meaningless.

On the other hand - what have we now? David Cameron's drab, overfed sociopathy and Nick Clegg's kicked puppy counterpart to Cameron's Orwellian pig. Making the point that, yeah, some animals are more equal than others.

Thatcher bought her own sheets for Downing Street. Cameron spent over £600K of taxpayers' money doing it up. Makes you wonder.

One might almost wish for a return to the days when politicians were so juicily hateable....

Haven't got a thing to wear!

Found this little black thing lying around but I think it's too girly:

I made a sweater a while back so I put all the parts together again and this is it, but I'm not happy with it. Although I think it's more the kind of thing he'd wear:

The model itself is pretty crappy and for some reason, while it's been between PCs (HD failure, don't ask) it's lost the morphs I put on it. Morphs are the ability to move bits of the mesh to give effects like lifting the hem in various directions, making the neck sag and so on.

I guess the best thing I could do is make another one. And while I'm at it, I'll make a sweatshirt to replace that nasty travesty I had in the earlier post. I mean - it can't be any worse, can it? :D

Off to download Blender. Free software, what can be wrong with that? I used to use TrueSpace but that's defunct now. And.... shhhh.... I never really liked it all that much. Of course, that was probably user incompetence, but still. I think if I want to make something I'd like to start with a new program to do it. So I don't feel I'll make the same old bunch of mistakes.

Don't stand so close to me...

Haven't updated for ages. Actually, I haven't updated anything for ages. Been ill - bunch of annoying personal stuff going on - family stuff going on - learning Japanese.

The only interesting bit of that is the last one as it's coming along quite well, which is good. I should have learned it a long time ago as it'd be useful for work.  

I joined a site to learn kanji and they said to me, you need hiragana first, which I'd learned a quarter of on Textfugu. So I had to sit down last night and learn the rest of it. 

I can well recommend Textfugu if you want to learn Japanese, it's like magic method. But last night I used a book called Hiragana42 which is designed for people who need to learn hiragana quickly because they registered for a site where they should have learned it already...

Moving rapidly away from the duh factor and on to the picture. The big guy is Eugene Schindler and he is the bad boy amongst my detectives. Um. Well. The baddest bad boy, I guess there are other minor contenders.

I don't want to go into the things he gets up to. They're distasteful to say the least. Tsk.

The other guy's Billy Sinclair, my IT specialist, surely I posted a picture of him already. Honestly I'm so disorganised! Who made that sweatshirt? That neck is dreadful. They've got no proper edge to it. That's like something I'd make and I'm World Number One bad modeller. I dunno why I bought that sweatshirt. I'll find him something better to wear, poor little guy.

Look at the boots, however. Now, those are a nice model. Aziqo - he's Japanese. Those were free actually, although I buy all his stuff that's for sale as well. He does interesting things, a bit fetish and punky and he does them right.

I have no idea why Schindler is semi-dressed in this. Maybe it's in the locker room. See, that's what happens when I'm too lazy to put in a background. A day later I've no idea what the hell I meant by it. Seems like all my short-term memory is taken up with Japanese right now.

Feiyue shoes

Look at these! Are these not the most beautiful shoes on the planet? ;)

Cold here

Snowing here. Which is a lot of fun as my central heating boiler broke and can't be fixed until Monday. 

Moving on to cheerier matters - here's Imri! This is a character of mine that I created about, I dunno, five years ago? Something like that. I've just done him up a bit to make him nicer as he's one of the characters in an illustrated story I'm going to make for my website. Yeah, the one I haven't got yet.

Actually, I do have one but it's kind of - off the shelf. And a funny colour. And I haven't any content on it. I suppose I could put some stuff on it and then replace it with a proper one later. By which I mean a homemade one rather than one that starts from a template.

At the moment I'm still struggling to get anything at all done, due to the tailend of the flu, various household appliances breaking and the backlog of all the stuff I haven't done, due to the flu. Ah well. Roll on spring.

I made this picture to post at Renderosity, but then realised I'd already posted one today and if you want to post more than one a day it costs $5 a month.  Bugger that.

So he can go there tomorrow; in the meantime, we can have his yumminess all to ourselves. And if he looks like he's been rolling in the snow, well, he probably has :D