See? Insomnia isn’t always bad in OD

So I couldn’t sleep this morning. (You read that right. My current sleep pattern is I go to sleep about 4:30 – 5am and wake up about 12 – 1pm. So it was this morning.)

I tried to decide what I was going to do. I could keep watching Skins series 3. Or possibly This Is England 86 episode 1. I’ve also still got the last episode of Last of the Summer Wine to watch. But I decided to get my writing on.

Between about 7am and now I’ve written:

¬ a 555 word review of Blood of the Cybermen for The Terrible Zodin (I replayed the game between 5:30 and 6)

¬ a 668 word review of TARDIS for The Terrible Zodin (as well as having replayed that game)

¬ The Tweet Vortex 2: Electric Boogaloo, which I had almost as much fun writing as I did the first one*. That, again, was for The Terrible Zodin. (493 words)

Just a small point. Those may be the last things I ever write for TTZ. They may not be, but they might be. Just have to wait and see.

¬ and a 1,227 word short story for my creative writing class. Which, as it turns out, starts back on Monday, not the following week as I originally thought.

I thought that I’d tortured my spellcheck enough with the TTV article (because of all the usernames and hashtags I’d used). Then I got to this. It’s in Doric. (The idea was that I had to take some myths and legends and write a story round them. So I chose a couple from Scotland that I could write a story around and set it in the North East.) It went ballistic. I actually had to completely switch off auto complete.

Incidentally, if anyone wants to read it and give me feedback, with the caveat that it is in Doric, drop me a note and let me know.

Now, I’m off into town to post a form I have to return and wander round the continental market in town. My next entry will probably be about the blood donation from hell (don’t worry, it’s not going to bee too gruesome).

Will

* if you want to read the first Tweet Vortex, TTZ is available to download here. I believe it’s in issue 4, though I’m probably wrong.