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I've got that lovely about-to-start-a-new-story feeling today. The story and characters have been mulling around for ages - part of it for years - and I can feel now that as soon as I'm confident that I've got the characters' names right, I can start writing. Probably not today, but with a bit of luck their names will be well enough settled that I can start next week; today I can keep the story in that beautiful shining glow that surrounds a new project before the concrete words have started pinning it into place.

I've got a couple of other projects going on too, but they concern other people as well so I'll wait a bit longer to talk about them. I'll just say I've got some fingers crossed...

And this afternoon I'm going back to Rye Primary School to visit the kids in the library enhancement group who've been running the What if Everyone in Rye read the Same book (Nim's Island) project. I've heard that it's going well, but I'll be very interested to hear exactly what they've been doing.

Ah good.
Looks like the demons in my head have finally found the form with which they may torture me via my dreams. Now when I plop my head down upon the pillow I can look forward to seeing these fellas laughing at me as they chase me through the streets of Manhattan bearing various kitchen utensils. Somehow these little guys are scarier to me than that last Madame Alexander monstrosity I stumbled on.

Gee willikers, thanks bookshelves of doom AND Oz and Ends. Y'all really know how to keep a girl rested.