Scribblings from the Mitchy Side

Saturday morning my new book from Thalia arrived. I started it Saturday afternoon but then got sucked into some RP on LbN which didn't finish until the wee small hours. So I that's when I carried on and finished the book. I got to sleep about 6am! *l*

It's a cracking book, another excellent addition to Gordon's Jester series. This time out, we find out something of Theo's background, but the narrator this time is Father Gerald, the leader of the Theives Guild. I thought I'd miss Theo's voice but the story was so good I didn't mind the different narrator and just zipped through it.

The whole book is very cleverly structured on Hamlet, and you could read it as Gordon's interpretation of the actual events that inspired Shakespeare's play. With your tongue firmly in your cheek, of course. Gordon takes his history seriously but this is a very clever blend of fiction with established fiction, if you see what I mean.

Anyway, Sunday morning didn't happen, obviously. Sunday afternoon was more RP, followed by an evening of American football. When I got back online, something odd happened. I got bitten with the idea of writing a story about my RP character Casey and sovrin's character Ailen. I started typing up a storm and when lithiumdoll read what I was doing and said it was really good, I got encouraged. It was nearly 4am before I prised myself off the computer and made myself get some sleep!

Oddly enough, although waking up took a while this morning, I was actually quite perky during the day, enough that I was able to work right through without a break and get out about 4.30. So I got home, fired up Word and forced myself to get going on the fic again.

AND I FINISHED IT!!!

I've NEVER finished a story before, ever ever ever. This is my very firstest one. *proud beam* Right now, it's being beta'd and nitpicked by lithium_doll but once that's done, I'll paste it up somewhere so anyone that wants to can read it.

ETA: It's been beta'd and here it is for anyone that's interested.

I'm now going to eat and beam with pride :)

PS: the cold has cleared up finally - thanks for all the get well wishes :)