Dinner with Steven Moffat in Bar Shu, spent mostly in enthusiastic Dr Who neepery. I love my life....As a side note, running Windows Vista on the Panasonic w7 is making me really nostalgic for 1986. Whoever thought I'd get to type things then stare at a blank screen for a bit and one-by-one watch the letters appear? Cory and Mike's 'Why Don't You Run Linux?' talks are staring to seem much more sensible.

You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.

You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly. 'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline.

People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick.

Write. Finish things. Get them published. Write something else while you're waiting for someone to publish the first thing.

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

Not gay, just never met the right woman.