Snow White and the Huntsman

I was browsing YouTube music clips last night and came across a brilliant new track from Florence and the Machine, then realised it was the theme song for the upcoming movie "Snow White and the Huntsman" so I clicked on the trailer and it looks AWESOME!!!. A real must see. Now the down side - it's not due for release until the Northern summer, so guess that means July/August here. But if you like dark fantasy and Charlise Theron as the evilest Evil Queen imaginable - all icy menace - then check out the trailer.
One warning thought - next morning my PC was stuck in a start up loop. I turned it off, left it to cogitate for a few hours, then started up again and it was all OK again. Innocent as a lamb, this PC acts when it recovers itself.
Not saying that the trailer has been hacked - but the only new sites I had been looking at were country songs, and Hackers and Country music don't exactly go together.

Cure for the Slow Patch Blues

The best cure for a slow down or writer's blues? Submit.
Submit, submit, submit.
So I have just pushed send and another query letter is  off into the ethernet. Fingers crossed, toes crossed, everything crossed and lots more admonishments to come about being patient. I am getting very experienced at trying to be patient - but not so good in the practice of it.
Please, this time? Just one little word - yes - and all my dreams can come true.

Slow Down

The wise adage is that to be a writer you must write, every day. and that is very true. But sometimes life intrudes and you have a slow patch. Like me, right now. Life is intruding and my writing is losing. I seem to manage a few hours of editing a week at most, and that is not good for the writing soul.
But am I beating myself up about it. No. Because that'e even worse for the writing soul. We do this crazy activity because we love it. And because without periods of losing ourselves in our own work, something is just not right with our world.
But a slow patch is just that, a patch out of the whole long course of our life. The writing will be back. And thinking is part of writing.  I have a whole novel to work out in my head before I get anywhere near paper. So maybe a part of me is still writing after all. A nice thought.