Hilary Booth... of course!

So it was back to the Thursday writing group again. I've been on hiatus because of my foot injury. It was good to see everyone again. I'm hoping to get back into the swing of writing, especially original stuff. With my focus on the archive and graphics lately, I haven't really written much.

whytcrow handed out some markets, including one for Paradox's Alternate History contest, which is quite tempting. I was ruminating over ideas on the way home. It's almost a pity I don't live with my parents anymore. I would love bouncing ideas with my father on this one. Part of my problem with AH is I tend to think small. Every writer seems to want to write the South winning the Civil War or the Germans winning WWII. I still have my AH skating story where the 1961 plane crash never happened. But it's a little obscure by science fiction standards. So I went back to my usual hunting grounds in Tudor-Elizabethan times. Keith Roberts had Elizabeth I assassinated in Pavane. I started going a step further and wondering what would have happened if Henry VIII's brother Arthur had survived. Still not sure what if anything that train of thought will bring forth...

For Thea Gilmore fans, Compass Records has released a two disc version of her "Songs from the Gutter" with a bonus 11 track disc.

The next time I even consider going to a concert in a club at the last minute on a week night, please talk some sense into me.

Unca Neil strikes again. At least he has good taste in singer-songwriters.

Further tomorrow when I'm defumigated and awake.