building myself a word-bridge, and getting over it

my 'top 5' bit came out in the age on saturday, though friends have found it, well, hard to find. if my scanner was beside me and not in storage in a box on the other side of town, i'd put a copy of it up here now. in the meantime i direct you to page 6 of A2, under the 48hours 'eat drink cook' section. that's the one, with the picture of the hamburger and fries in the middle and my name at the end. sorted!

writing-wise, mini crisis and subsequent mini-recovery. i realised last week that the new story had some continuity problems, so called a friend to check dates of things that happen in the real world to which i refer in the book. lo, i had the sequence of events backward. so i sat and stared at much-laboured-over words and felt like crying, then decided to walk away from laptop for a while lest i did something rash. turned out to be a good decision (i think, now at least) for i feel i've found a way to write myself out of this hole. it's tough stuff, though. this new project is a bit dark and sad (at least the bits i'm writing now are). hopefully when i finish it, it will be a story other people want to read.