{"id":807,"date":"2012-10-29T23:19:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T23:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/?p=807"},"modified":"2012-10-29T23:19:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T23:19:08","slug":"new-blog-nanowrimo-procrastination-and-james-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/?p=807","title":{"rendered":"New Blog – Nanowrimo, procrastination and James Bond."},"content":{"rendered":"

It sounds like a strange 1960s team-up show, I know. But the madness of National Novel Writing Month is almost upon me. I have only two days of sanity and freedom left before November first.<\/p>\n

Back in February I pledged to blog every Monday for a year. Some of my entries have been a bit scrappy and brief but they’ve still been there. So that won’t change but they may still be short. The word count gadget will be on the blog too. I honesty have no idea how it’s going to go this year. I have less of a plot idea than last year so I’m going to be doing even more creating on the fly than usual. My craft output may suffer I’m not really sure.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of which, here’s a quick shot (ie blurry pic) of my latest wip<\/p>\n

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Ok, so it’s red and there are cables. Oh and it’s for me \ud83d\ude42 No idea when I’ll finish it of course…:)<\/p>\n

I love my job, I get to speak to the most fascinating people. Today I got to chat to a security expert about James Bond. He recommended that I read some of the Fleming novels so I’m going to add Casino Royale to the ever increasing pile of books by the side of my bed.<\/p>\n

I’m only a recent convert to Bond. Casino Royale was the first Bond film I’d ever seen at the cinema. It was a breath of fresh air. Prior to that Bond films were a sort of boring, sexist kind of stain on Bank Holiday tv schedules. Although, even that said I’ve always had a fondness for the original 1960s Bond. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is still one of my favourite films. Perhaps it’s just the Roger Moore films that I have an aversion towards?<\/p>\n

Seeing Skyfall \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and if you haven’t already, run don’t walk to see it \u00e2\u20ac\u201c made me want to revisit the 60s Bond films and watch CR again. I’ve got a subscription to Sky’s NOW TV film streaming service and they have all the Bond films ready to stream so since I couldn’t find my dvd copy I tried streaming it. Awful. It was like the worst You Tube-esque copy ever. So I had to quickly give up on it and find another copy. I did stream OHMSS and that was a lot better. Watched half of Dr No and then fell asleep. I did rewatch CR \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it’s still brilliant – and the quite appalling Quantum of Solace over the rest of the weekend. When Bond’s best chat up line is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153do you want to help me find the stationary?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, you know that it’s not really going very well…<\/p>\n

Another issue with Quantum is that I forever associate it with these alternate theme songs by the legendary Adam & Joe.<\/p>\n