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# Everything is changing.
The old bookshop in my town has gone, which is most annoying.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:33, archived)
# I think it's unlikely to have gone, as it was the oldest bookshop in London.
Foyles, doh.

Still, I don't see why googlemap didn't show it with all the others under bookshops.

Also I really need to start writing now, but I swear each chapter is getting harder and I think that the next chapter will be a cakewalk then it manages to be more ridiculously stupid to write than the last.
If anyone knows how to write a icy post alien sex atmosphere and still make it actually funny, you'll have to get in touch with me...
(Jeru War and Piss, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:38, archived)
# Oh FOYLES.
Riiiight.

I've heard of that one.

Have you done bullet points to plan your chapters?
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:39, archived)
# The entire book is already written out in so much as the actual events (this is a rewrite remember)
It's just that making it funny, interesting or even vaguely well written is fucking difficult.

The original story made far too serious an attempt (and a really shit serious attempt at that) at showing the indecision in the main character's mind, and why despite the fact that an alien girl just jumped him and then cooked him breakfast afterwards he was still fairly nonplussed about the whole thing.
(Jeru War and Piss, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:44, archived)
# Sounds like all men to me.
Nonplussed, angry or pompous.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:46, archived)
# The main character was based on me.
So thanks for that one.

I still think terminal melacholy for a main character is a pretty brave choice though.
(Jeru War and Piss, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:53, archived)