Honesty corner

So ... I had a comment the other day, asking why I called myself zee/zeebee (zeezee, ker-ray-zee-zee, zeena ... variants of zee basically). It's a pretty long, dull story, but as you asked, I will answer it.

However .... in the meantime, if anyone else wants to ask anything, however brutal, comment on this post and I'll answer them all, say, by the end of the week? If this is the only question I'm going to get then ... well, aren't you guys in for a treat!

Just to pad this blog entry out a little, since I loathe short posts, a few facts/stats for you to ignore:

I have reached chapter five of The Picture Of Dorian Gray (which, thanks to film marketing, I keep calling Portrait. I have noticed. I'm sorry. I'll stop.)

I'm up to chapter 13 of Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, which I'm reading to my son. We started Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone two years ago. I'm determined to finish the entire series with him before he's five. Two years to go ...

In terms of Budding, the story I'm writing at the moment (which I'll call a book once it's bound by a publishing house, by the way) I have now written 98,112 words over 241 pages, and I'm so close to the end I can smell it. This is in comparison to the first one, Uprooted, which has 110,808 words over 256 pages. I don't quite understand how there can be 10,000 words difference over 15 pages but hey, that don't matter. I now have to properly brainstorm for the third one, Wilting (I know, but all I can come up with is flower analogies ... )

And when I tagged on this entry, 10 different authors whose first name starts with 'J' came up. Maybe I should have a literary alterego, lol ...