YIPEE!!! - Moving house

Today Charlotte got the keys for her house and we are moving.  I am so excited she has promised I can have more time with her and maybe get my book finished.

More sick this time it is hers.

Socrates:  Sorry you are sick Charlotte - hope you are better tomorrow.   We didn't get very far today and how dull can you make those scenes - all I did was admire some bare trees and eat stew.   And that is so not me and Angus you have communicating there/
Charlotte:  Sorry Soc to use one of your brothers phrases today my innards feel like someone has chewed them up and spat them back inside me.
Socrates:  I know you look like you have been poisoned.
Charlotte:  Yeah think it was red cabbage what did it.  Although it isn't a Covesea Island type poisoning.
Socrates:  I'm not a total idiot you know, I may not live in your world but I have a basic idea how it works.  It isn't that much different to my own.
Charlotte:  Never seen you as an idiot - intellectually you are my brightest character, well you and Nate together.
Socrates:  I know we work so well together shame in order to get stories you need to keep seperating us.  Promise me before you die you will do us a together forever story.
Charlotte:  Do you I deal I'll write it after I have found an agent and got this trilogy out before I complete Stitching Time - is that a deal?
Socrates: Sounds good to me any idea for a title?
Charlotte:  How about Every Little Thing He does is Magic?
Socrates: That is rubbish - if you want my cooperation for this story better come up with a better title for the end of my fairy tale.
Charlotte:  OK what about Love Goes On? Our Song?  The One Thing We Never Discuss?
Socrates:  None of them make me feel confident about our reunification involving full reinstatement of Nate and use living together for ever as Socrates and Nate.
Charlotte:  Ahh I was thinking about bringing him back as a girl?
Socrates:  No offense but yuck no way - I want Nate.
Charlotte:  OK will think about .  I promise
Socrates Keep me updated and I will help you out of your writers block.

Snot Again

Socrates:  Please can we stop rewriting this scene and did you have to dress me in my best coat to do it?  Much preferred it when you only messed up my school uniform.
Charlotte:  The scene where you are cleaning up gives me a chance to describe you
Socrates:  Couldn't you cover me with stew or something?
Charlotte: Anyone would think you didn't want to support your brother through his trauma.
Socrates:  That is emotional blackmail - why do you have to make him so blinking emotional? I am sure there is a better way of handling it without me getting covered in snot.
Charlotte:  You want to redo the scene?  I thought we were done.
Socrates:  Yuck no. Just keep bodily fluids to the minimum will you.   Have enough trouble dealing with my own. Angus is the only person I will push past it to deal with them.  Remember when he was a little boy handing me back snotty handkerchiefs it was gross.
Charlotte:  So we are good then?
Socrates: No but if you say its over guess will have to deal with it. 
Charlotte:  It is over for now - I can't promise no more emotional scenes with Angus.
Socrates:  That's fine but next time he can hit me instead.

Yay we got the opening scene

Finally after messing me about left right and centre, Charlotte has finally gone and found my voice.  Quite like it not sure about me being so squeamish about things like sweat, blood and snot but I can live with it.

I like it this book feels like it is going to treat me better than originally planned.

Happy Birthday To Ellie!!

Today Charlotte's daughter is seven.  I adore Ellie she draws pictures of me and they are not bad, she tells stories about me as well.  She never makes me miserable.   Happy Birthday to Ellie !!!  Maybe I'll even get a slice of cake.

HOW INSULTING SHE SAYS I DON'T HAVE A GSOH!!!

Charlotte:  Soc we need to do something about your sense of humour.
Socrates:  You saying you don't find me entertaining?
Charlotte:  I find you very entertaining - but you are not the most outright funny guys.  I think the story would work better if you could become funnier.
Socrates: You already got me going funny in the head.  I think this is really unfair of you to expect me to fundamentally change my character.  It is only a story you know.
Charlotte:  I know that Soc, but I think because of how dark and difficult the book is proving we either need to lighten the mood somehow or I will have to switch to third person.  We are already having to consider placing it in past tense.
Socrates: I don't wanna be told in third person - Angus got first person it just plain wouldn't be fair/
Charlotte: That's how I feel Soc - I don't want to change it.  I am considering making you the Abbot's straight man?
Socrates:  Your giving the Abbot a bigger part?
Charlotte: Thinking about it, I think you need a better support system in place than just Angus.
Socrates:  That already makes me feel better Charlotte you know I have been worried about the journey ahead.
Charlotte:  Ready to go read the riot act to Angus and Jack?
Socrates:  Too bloody right had the pair of them up to the neck.
Charlotte:  OK we'll work this out I promise to do everything I can to tell your story first person if you work with me deal?
Socrates: Deal - do I get an extra time with Nate for this?
Charlotte:  If I have time.

Nice Morning

Nate came home today and we had fun.  The sea is quiet again it's giving me the jeebies, but still good to have Nate home.


Angus came round for a chat it is the first time he has visited in ages we had lunch.  Charlotte and me are doing OK she is giving me some easy scenes right now I don't feel the same urge to argue with her.

I am a happier character

What About Us is taking shape.  Instead of pure misery it has started nice and will be ending fun:)

Conversation with Charlotte

Charlotte: I am really sorry about last night.  You did so well.  What About Us? is going to be a really hard book for you.
Socrates:  I know there seems to be a lot going wrong in my life right now.
Charlotte: I don't like having to hurt you like that.
Socrates::  Kind of regretting my issues with you working on one project now, I miss the forward jump in time.  It gives me a break from the rubbish you are throwing at me right now.
Charlotte: I'll try and write you a nice scene on the side later - maybe some time with Nate or would you like to iceskate with Sothy?
Socrates:  What do you think?  Ice Skating with Nate sounds perfect.

oooh nooo!!!

What is my author doing to me - bad enough I am having loads of one on one time with Angus she has my sister knock on my hotel room door whilst I am in the bath.  Yep that is right the same sister that make Lady Macbeth and Morgan Le Fey look like role models for children.   How am I supposed to deal with this.  Right now she is arguing with Angus.

I'm Hiding

Today I am tired, I don't want my author anywhere near me today.  I am just not letting her into my world.  Think I have the time travel version of jetlag!!  I have decided to take myself to the beach today, I have managed to catch a trout.

I don't know how old I am or where I am - Nate is missing and I don't know why.  Feeling just generally a bit out in the ether today.  Kind of missing Charlotte maybe we need to find each other again.

Now she thinks I am a seamstress honestly!!!

I do not want to learn to sew, I am really resisting this.  Somehow by now and November I need to become an expert seamstress.  Why would I want to be bothered doing this, she needs to come up with a better reason than she thinks it would make a nice story. 

She called me an ignorant pig -humph

Father Abbot's New Clothes

Cool today Charlotte dressed me in my Father Abbot robes for the first time.  Confusing as I am being marched 100 years into the future again.  She wants to get me ready for National Novel Writing Month.  Charlotte says we can have a bit of fun with a slightly nuts time travel story that isn't remotely related to anything we have done before except myself, Shun and a couple of other characters are in it.  Oh and she has found a way to resurrect the Abbot.

My fighting suit is black and edged in gold.  I also have a monks robe for everyday.  We are currently arguing about what to embellish the chest with Charlotte wants my yang-dao or birdform - I'd like somthing related to my role as Father Abbot.  Charlotte says if I want to change her mind, I need to decide.   She will then consider it.

YAWN

Tonight she has been so busy with my brother King Angus, Charlotte has left me to my own devices.  It has been nice got to watch a spot of TV with a ginger tea.

Nate cooked dinner for me, it was nice not to need to be bothered.  Guess we need to make plans for tomorrow.  If I am able I am kind of in the mood to be back on my epic journey, hiking across Ceylonica.  Ceylonica is the colder country to the North of Covesea Island.  Our countries have never got on. 

Oh What a Night

OK Charlotte is majorly forgiven. Not only did I not get hit in yesterdays final draft, I got cake and beer not bad.

Then she wrote a little piece just for me and no publication. I got an evening with Nate - yipee he even showed up with flowers. We dressed up went for a great night out and came back to the house for a greater night in!!! She has even promised no messing me around for a few weeks now, but she can't promise I won't get hit. I get to explore my powers more which should be fun, apparently I may get beyond making ceramic plates.

I am just in to good a mood right now to be mad at anyone. Plus a little hung over, heading back to bed. She says I can stay there all day today I am not needed.

So fed up

I am so sick of this. Charlotte didn't even get round to giving me the promised nice time with Nate - it's been weeks since we had time together.

Now she is having me punched - AGAIN!! I mean I am not a violent man usually - why am I everyone's punch bag? Why does she do it to me? Wouldn't mind but I even had to ask for this one. Ugh wishing I hadn't asked her to stick with one story she is chosen one where I am having a hard time. I wanted the one where I have a bit more power...

We need therapy !!!

We seriously need a therapist life as one of Charlotte's characters is not nice she is soo ruthless. Noone else dares take on the most powerful man in the universe, well OK they do because even I don't know it yet., or do I - wish she would get her stories straight I am so confused about who I am.

She has threatened me with a girlfriend if I don't behave. Something she knows will scare the crud out of me. Not to mention it may kill me. Thing is how can I behave when I don't...

HELP!! SAVE ME FROM MY AUTHOR

Right now I am getting distinctly fed up of an author that has no idea what she is doing with me. I mean just today I have gone back in time and sat crying with my brother, moved forward a bit and she made me blind, then i had a proper fist fight with my partner. Then finally she had me deal with the life of my Great Great Great neice or something like that. I know she has told me time travel is part of my destiny but right now I am just one confused character. HELP!! SAVE ME FROM MY AUTHOR