1. In ten years my pie-in-the-sky hope is to have had at least one novel published, (and be well on my way to being richer than J.K. Rowling!) at which point I would want to have a large house in the country with room for a dog or two! More realistically, I would be happy to still be at the Met Office, but with a couple of promotions from where I am now. Maybe a slightly larger house in Exeter - one with a garden.
2. I've been trying to think of something I'd want to ask an important historical figure, but the trouble is narrowing it down to one question, so I'll just go with asking Tolkien why he intended Feanor & sons to spend longer shut up in Mandos than Morgoth did after he messed up the world the first time around.
3. That's tricky - it's hard to decide between abuse of adverbs and excessive epithets. On balance I think the epithets win it, if only because it's easy to ignore the adverbs, whereas trying to remember who is the oldest/tallest/blondest/most Elvish can really throw me out of the story.
4. Probably the first time I wrote 50000 words for NaNoWriMo! It ought to be getting my degree, or getting into the County Youth Orchestra, but I knew I could do both of those things before I started, whereas at the beginning of November 2005 I thought those 50000 words would be impossible for me to write in a month.
5. I love both, and my current favourite place is Dartmouth, where the woods go right to the edge of the water. But if I had to choose one, it would be the sea, because I don't think I could bear to live inland for any length of time. When I was living in Michigan I didn't realise just how much I missed the sea until the end of the year, when I travelled across Canada, and when I got to the Pacific Ocean it felt like I was home, even though I was actually further away! Quite often I like to go to the beach and take in the sea air (it has to be the proper salty air of the sea, not a lake) and it sort of recharges my creative batteries!
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Date: 2010-06-22 09:15 pm (UTC)2. I've been trying to think of something I'd want to ask an important historical figure, but the trouble is narrowing it down to one question, so I'll just go with asking Tolkien why he intended Feanor & sons to spend longer shut up in Mandos than Morgoth did after he messed up the world the first time around.
3. That's tricky - it's hard to decide between abuse of adverbs and excessive epithets. On balance I think the epithets win it, if only because it's easy to ignore the adverbs, whereas trying to remember who is the oldest/tallest/blondest/most Elvish can really throw me out of the story.
4. Probably the first time I wrote 50000 words for NaNoWriMo! It ought to be getting my degree, or getting into the County Youth Orchestra, but I knew I could do both of those things before I started, whereas at the beginning of November 2005 I thought those 50000 words would be impossible for me to write in a month.
5. I love both, and my current favourite place is Dartmouth, where the woods go right to the edge of the water. But if I had to choose one, it would be the sea, because I don't think I could bear to live inland for any length of time. When I was living in Michigan I didn't realise just how much I missed the sea until the end of the year, when I travelled across Canada, and when I got to the Pacific Ocean it felt like I was home, even though I was actually further away! Quite often I like to go to the beach and take in the sea air (it has to be the proper salty air of the sea, not a lake) and it sort of recharges my creative batteries!