Archive for January, 2010

Elizabeth I

Monday, January 11th, 2010

The premise of this film was that the Queen bordering on the menopause is given one more chance to marry a French royal. Public opinoin prevent the marrage and her lovely Dudley is banished for marrying behind her back and trying to sabatarge the royal engagement. There are plots and counter plots and mainly I […]

Mnemosyne’s Kiss

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

Another of my husbands suggestions – this book leads you on with intrige with some interesting twists and it covers some interesting nanotech ideas which is always good because though the Elves/Aquatic Apes do not have nanotech the humans in our future do. The book also had contained human computer interactions in away that has […]

Optical Electronics

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Actually I don’t mean Optical Electronics I mean Optronics. This is a branch of ‘electronics’ using basically light. It also tends to be made from glass and lasers! This is so perfect for my needs for the story I can not believe it. I have mentioned this before but it gets better – becuase not […]

The Punk’s Hobbies

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Yep another of EelKat’s Surveys for character building! I really am starting to get a solid picture of who the Punk is – I’ve know what she looks like for a while but this gives depth!. The origonal is here. In her spare time she likes to soop up her bike, research into her past, […]

Elizabeth

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

This film is dramatic with interesting cimatography, its a 1998 film containing loads of stars – it opens with protistants being persecuted by the Catholic Queen Mary. The 16 yr old Elizabeth is imprisioned in the Tower of London – I hadn’t realesed that Elizabeth I had spent any time in the tower so it […]

New Year

Friday, January 1st, 2010

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! And what are my nano plans for 2010? Quiet simply I now have basically half of the Punk in Pink written and feel that NaNoWriMo this year would serve well to write the remainder – I know this will technically be cheating as its bringing a half done manuscript into it – […]