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I want to write a long entry, but my mind is too full of stuff, of code and the weekend and game stuff and plans, to actually get anything worthwhile on the screen.

The weekend was very good - house to ourselves, which is always nice, and we didn't do a whole lot beyind relaxing and taking things easy. Played a game on Saturday, albeit with only two players, dealing quite a bit with Storm's drow storyline, and setting things up for Urda and Calpurnius' travel in the Bordering Lands. I'm very pleased with the way the Bordering Lands are coming out, distinct from the other parts of the world, without getting into weird stuff or genre-breaking things.

I've drawn maps recently of Norvad City, of the two continents that comprise the Bordering Lands, and unfinshed maps of the city of Miroon and the Kingdom of Herondau and surroundings. They're all on A3 paper from an old sketch pad, and I'm rather pleased with them.

I want to do a map of the southern part of the Old Lands, too, and a few more focussed maps in Norvad. A map of Levatos wouldn't go astray, either. I'll have to get another such sketchpad soon, and get photocopies of the maps already in existence, so that I can give them away to relevant people, and reduce them for scanning, too.

In among all these thoughts is the fact that I'm looking forward to Edinburgh. I have no expectations for the holiday there, just that it's not-work, is-Edinburgh, and everything else will be a nice bonus.

There's the Neil Gaiman signing this evening, which looks as though it'll be as much social event as signing - a lot of people I know will be there. (7pm, Hanna-Easons, 1 Dawson Street)

And then there's work - I've gotten a good bit done this morning, and it's flowing well. If it keeps going like this, I'll have the months work done a bit ahead of schedule.

But I wish I could think a bit more clearly.

Hero Worship

We just met Neil Gaiman. He did a reading, Q&A and book signing in Hanna-Easons in town. I got his chapter in the Writers on Comics Scriptwriting signed, and er, didn't actually say that much to him - I just basked in the reflected glory of inannajones, who asked a really good question, and had about as long a conversation as you can have at a signing with him. But he's so cool. He's really really nice, in that way that it seems only fantasy/sci-fi authors can be, and he answers questions in the spirit that they were asked in, and he tries very hard to make every signing individual. He wrote "Write!!" above his signature on the chapter. I'm incoherent, but I'm very very pleased that he's turned out to be as cool as I had hoped.