Two good finds

I went out to take some books back to the library and get some lunch and a coffee at the same time, and realised on my way that I'd left without a book to read over lunch. A bad habit, they say, but I don't care; I like a book if I'm eating alone. So I had a quick browse at the library (which was full of kids, it being school holidays which I also hadn't realised) and found Night of the Living Trekkies by Kevin David Anderson and Sam Stall, themselves Trekkies. There was a vid advertising this a while back and it looked like a lot of fun. Zombies aren't usually my thing, but at a Star Trek con and with added humour? They definitely are.

After lunch (and two chapters in, all chapter having BTW Star Trek episode names) I went to Farro to pick up eggs, bread, and yogurt--and they had imported Italian cannoli shells. You can't usually get those here so I grabbed a packet. All I have to do is make a lovely ricotta filling. I became addicted to those things in Sicily and the last ones I ate were in Melbourne some years ago. I'm meant to be eating more healthily but YUM!

30 Days Of Fan Fiction: Day 19

19 – When you have plot ideas, do you sit down and start writing right away, or do you write down the idea for further use?

Sometimes I start writing straight away if the story's going to be a short one or the idea's just irresistible. Otherwise I tend to file the idea away in my mind (I don't write it down, no) and now and then bring it out and mentally play in it when driving or walking and wanting to entertain myself. At some point I'll actually decide to make a start at writing the thing but it can take, um, years to get round to that. I'm about to start one of those fics, a long one which has finally begun to ripen, though I'm not really sure of a lot of the middle.

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