It was the weekend?

This is mostly an excuse to show off rubberneck's new work. I just love this icon and made shameful begging noises and she sent it right over.

searose finished beta round two for me, and while I think she is right, that I should send it out to someone who hasn't read it to gain an alternate persepective, I feel like I'm ready to post it. I think there are still some flaws inherent, but overall I'm pleased that I tried something different and I like the ambiguity of the finished product. So, I'll be posting the Aeryn story later today.

I need to do actual work today at work, which is a relief. There's nothing more unproductive than a bored writer. Well, I suppose I haven't actually been unproductive, I just haven't produced anything for those people who pay my salary, and I'm awfully fond of them.

And finally, because I was away from LJ land all weekend, I wanted to follow up on the silence discussion. I thought of one of the great moments, for me, of someone discussing how important the pause, the break is. ( The English Patient )

Days of Whine and Roses

Sometimes I do feel like I'm totally losing my mind! My cel phone bill this month quadrupled, so I called all in a huff to find out, nope, just me. Checking my voice mail like a maniac is expensive, so to all my friends who I love dearly and who bitch constantly because I refuse to attach my cel phone to my ear, you can all bite me.
Or better yet, send me money to pay the damned bill that I accrued talking to you.

Unfortunately, none of the causes of this bill actually read this journal, so it's a lot of spitting in the wind. But at least I feel better now. And Cingular has a new plan that will prevent this from happening again. I will not say bad things about you Cingular, because actually, you've been great.

I posted A Circle Just on Kansas, and sent it by e-mail to Leviathan (because the posting interface refuses to believe that I'm trying to post a text-only file. I do find that there are flaws in this story, but I tried something new, tried to do layers of ambiguity that I'm normally uncomfortable with, and while I think that some of those layers may be either too convoluted or too in my head, I'm still pleased with the effort. I learned a lot, largely thanks to my betas, about writing on this fic, and therefore, no matter the response, it was well worth the time and effort. And I wrote Aeryn/other, which I didn't think I was capable of doing:)


ETA: I just reread the damn thing on the Leviathan board and found three mistakes. I've read this thing repeatedly, checked for errors every single time, and now I'm really annoyed. Proof that a new format makes it feel like a new story. Goddammit! I hate making mistakes.

I've also discovered that I don't like how it looks on Kansas. I like reading this fic on paper, but not so much on the computer. It's a lot of text, and there's something about the blue background or the format, or something indefineable that I'm just not thrilled with.

But I've read In The Company of Ghosts and Weight of the World multiple times on the computer, didn't bother me a whit. Although, now that I think about it, I read ITCOG on Leviathan and WotW on Analise's site. Maybe this goes back to silence and spaces and that for some reason it's hard for me to insert the breaths in that format. Hmm. Don't know. Max's and Analise's epics have such strong narrative drive, though, that I'm willing to bet I'd be willing to read them in any format.