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Date: 19 December 2006 10:08:32
After last weeks calming down after the gig which turned into huge amounts of work I'm now determined to slow down a little... That said this week is similarly hectic but primarily with tidying up (HA!) and Christmassey things and all that. Some of the things that are time consuming are not in the slightest unpleasant: wifey is still teaching at one school whereas my daughters school has broken up so she and I are trogging along and going out shopping and all that. Very pleasant and lovely.
Did head into the arts centre last night prior to the works 'do' and managed to move a few stage blocks that would have been in peoples way in the near future, moved some chairs off of the dance flooring and cleaned a few carpet stains, that sort of thing. Ended up fashionably late to Pizza Express (well, repeatedly and not at all unusually late if I were to use slightly truer words) and then watched as half of the group proceeded to drink their cares away and sing loud and raucous songs to anyone within earshot (and not always just to them) because I'd lost track of time doing the carpet shampoo stuff which is one of the worst excuses I've used for being slightly late for a party.
Also popped into the Christian bookshop while on the mooch around town with daughter, just to see if they had the new issue of Youthwork magazine in which had promised a review of Sylver 2. Last year they reviewed Sylver 1 very kindly which lent some good quotes to the marketing machine: (what a page turner, something else can't remember :) ). This time the review was somewhat less positive (didn't buy a copy - athough will do in the near future) and included the words dull, uninteresting and similar sentiments (I think it said something along the lines of 'if Heaven is like the book portrays it the reviewer would not like to holiday there let alone spend eternity there'). I guess I had to get an unpositive review sometime, gutted it's in Youthwork but there you go; such is life, can't please everyone, shrug off the bad reviews and all that: which is what wifey often says while I'm sitting and evaluating life and stuff and whether this review is more truthful than the rest and whether everyone else is just trying to be kind to me. To be fair to the reviewer (although I think the two books were not reviewed by th same person) book 1 and 2 are different in many ways: 1 is more straight out adventurer to 2's slightly more thoughtful examination of the kids lives. Both still end in a battle though and, for my money, I like the battle in 2 slightly more than I like the battle in 1 (although I enjoyed writing both but I think the pacing in 2's battle scenes are slightly better) and I LOVE the battle in book 3, still tentatively dated for next year (although the past couple of months have been so busy any movement on Sylver has been inside my head rather than on a keyboard). Anyhow: regardless of whichever way round things are I'm slightly more determined that I was pre-negative review to make Sylver 3 a top read so that's no bad thing if nothing else... It has also soko made my mind up on something else directionally but that's something to come closer to release time.
Anyhoo: on to the next thing in a min. Girlytwirls nearly finished her shower so it's nearly time to move our Muttley buttleys off to town to finish off the shopping (wifey, mum and... Think that's it now shall need to think a little bit before we go or over a drink whenwe get there which'll please daughter....) Back soonish :~)