What's That They Say That If Two People Tell You You're Sick?

Blankly, Covenant stared into the pooled hurt of her eyes. He felt benumbed with pain and grief and wasted rage, and did not understand why she castigated herself... Stunned and Empty, he led her onward into the night until she had cried out her anguish and could stand on her own again. He wanted to weep himself, but in his long struggle with the misery of being a leper he had forgotten how, and now he could only keep on walking.Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen Donaldson.

Hurray! I made it to page 237... okay so that's only just over half of the book, which is the first in a set of seven... but hey - it's further than I got the last time I tried to read it. You see... after about thirty pages of dealing with this man's depression/anger/bitterness etc about his lot in life, I start to get a little fed up with his constant whining, and that makes the job of wading through Donaldson's fluted language - albeit very literary - just that little too much to bear.

The premise is brilliant, and I really do wish I could finish it, but after having been stuck on the book for four months - reading another book while this one was unfinished - and not being able to face reading LFB because I wasn't enjoying it, I figured enough was enough. Put in a sticky page marker, and maybe come back to try and finish it at a later date.

Wanting A Change...

I've been thinking for a few days that I want to change the look of my LJ. Don't get me wrong I love the butterflies, and I love the colours, but... I'm just in the mood for changing it. My only problem is that I don't know/can't decide what I want it to look like.

I'm procrastinating again. There are loads of things I could (and some I ought) to be doing, but I've also been meaning to post this for days, and just have been so busy that I haven't gotten around to it. So I thought while my brain was having a little blank moment, and my Muse taking a nap, I would do just that.

Website and Writing Update

Title: Harm's Way
Rating: R (mature readers)
Spoilers: Set after The Last Man so spoilers for S1-4 and the beginning of S5.
Summary: With the team trapped and Teyla still in Michael's hands Carter must hurry to rescue them before the game of 'Lantean in the Middle' takes an even more deadly turn. So when someone asks, "How much worse can it get?" you just know that nothing is going to go according to plan.
Disclaimer: MGM own Stargate: Atlantis. This story is for entertainment purposes only and no revenue is being made from copyright material. No infrigement intended.

Act 1 and 2 now available.

Just click on the blue 'ma' rating button beneath the picture for whichever act you wish to read, and you'll be taken to the page.

Writing Update Act 3 - 675 words, the first scene from the act is written - so far...