Baby's Got a Brand New Bag
No, that's not true either, but I'm running short of clever subject lines in my head.
First order of business, the latest edition of SMRT-TV is out. Go forth and read, respond, play in the forums, buy books through the Amazon.com link and just enjoy. It's a good issue, full of interesting bits. The site has definitely hit it's groove. And everyone related to me is reading it, so the lot of you have no excuse:)
Saturday was lovely and mellow. Very little work was accomplished, but I redeemed a gift certificate at Burke Williams and got a massage and was then a puddle of goo. I also got sunburned at lunch because apparently, even at my advanced age, I must get fried like a lobster at least once a season before believing that the sun does not ignore me just because I wish or will it. Sunday was chock full of action. Actually, it was chock full of work, gym, work, coffee, work, dinner, work and writing.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sorlklewis, I was a uselss companion this weekend. Saturday I did a face plant into the couch, and Sunday, by the time I got home, I had too much to do. But just the thought of you feeding me food and zombie films sustained me:) Let's figure out a definite time and place though, at either house, and I will not bail!!!
I'm driving the off its hiatus [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] this month. Whoo hoo. Everyone buckle up. Snort.
The Sprogathon fics are up:) I'm excited to go back to them eventually, but am still too caught up in my own projects to think of offspring that isn't offspring I'm writing about. I both love and hate that feeling, the absorption in one reality at the expense of all the rich other realities.
I've been having the continuing identity/life/momentum crises, so I did what I always do when I'm stressed, freaked and lost. I re-read In the Company of Ghosts. I finished parts 1 and 2, realized that in possibly my biggest fan faux pas, I've never sent Max feedback about this work. It's one of those things, like Little Acorns, like Arizona Highways, that not only feeds into my need for more stories in these universes, but teaches me about writing, gives me something rich and beautiful and engaging that is outside of the universe. I remember hearing hints fromfialka and suelac about this work that was coming out that was going to blow everyone's mind. And when "In the Company of Ghosts" came out, it was just so very true. IT blew my mind, and when I finished Part 1, knowing there was more and not having access to it, my greed, my need for more just rose up and I checked every single day until Part 2 came out. It was just so very good, and I can't remember previously having sat in front of a piece of work and having been so frelling grateful for it. I just don't know how else to describe how I felt about the story, about it's richness, about the visceral experience of reading it.
It's a work that I think of as being it's own sort of canon, it's own sort of fully realized status quo. It's a work that gave me enough confidence to try my own novel length work (and it was something I wouldn't let myself re-read while I was writing Blue Eyes because it would suffer too much in comparison). The plotting, the description, the characters, everything has such force, such presence, and it's so frelling easy. Nothing reads as labored, as trying to hard, it's just... well, I can't think of a better description than fully realized. And as usual, I read it and it gets me through, gets me back on track in these small, strange, necessary ways.
In other notes,leadensky has posted a top 10 female characters list. I'd like to encourage everyone to follow that example. Hossgal does a beautiful job of showing what it is about these characters that draw her in, that make her stick around and I'd so love to see the other people on my flist do the same thing:)
First order of business, the latest edition of SMRT-TV is out. Go forth and read, respond, play in the forums, buy books through the Amazon.com link and just enjoy. It's a good issue, full of interesting bits. The site has definitely hit it's groove. And everyone related to me is reading it, so the lot of you have no excuse:)
Saturday was lovely and mellow. Very little work was accomplished, but I redeemed a gift certificate at Burke Williams and got a massage and was then a puddle of goo. I also got sunburned at lunch because apparently, even at my advanced age, I must get fried like a lobster at least once a season before believing that the sun does not ignore me just because I wish or will it. Sunday was chock full of action. Actually, it was chock full of work, gym, work, coffee, work, dinner, work and writing.
sorlklewis, I was a uselss companion this weekend. Saturday I did a face plant into the couch, and Sunday, by the time I got home, I had too much to do. But just the thought of you feeding me food and zombie films sustained me:) Let's figure out a definite time and place though, at either house, and I will not bail!!!I'm driving the off its hiatus [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] this month. Whoo hoo. Everyone buckle up. Snort.
The Sprogathon fics are up:) I'm excited to go back to them eventually, but am still too caught up in my own projects to think of offspring that isn't offspring I'm writing about. I both love and hate that feeling, the absorption in one reality at the expense of all the rich other realities.
I've been having the continuing identity/life/momentum crises, so I did what I always do when I'm stressed, freaked and lost. I re-read In the Company of Ghosts. I finished parts 1 and 2, realized that in possibly my biggest fan faux pas, I've never sent Max feedback about this work. It's one of those things, like Little Acorns, like Arizona Highways, that not only feeds into my need for more stories in these universes, but teaches me about writing, gives me something rich and beautiful and engaging that is outside of the universe. I remember hearing hints from
fialka and suelac about this work that was coming out that was going to blow everyone's mind. And when "In the Company of Ghosts" came out, it was just so very true. IT blew my mind, and when I finished Part 1, knowing there was more and not having access to it, my greed, my need for more just rose up and I checked every single day until Part 2 came out. It was just so very good, and I can't remember previously having sat in front of a piece of work and having been so frelling grateful for it. I just don't know how else to describe how I felt about the story, about it's richness, about the visceral experience of reading it.It's a work that I think of as being it's own sort of canon, it's own sort of fully realized status quo. It's a work that gave me enough confidence to try my own novel length work (and it was something I wouldn't let myself re-read while I was writing Blue Eyes because it would suffer too much in comparison). The plotting, the description, the characters, everything has such force, such presence, and it's so frelling easy. Nothing reads as labored, as trying to hard, it's just... well, I can't think of a better description than fully realized. And as usual, I read it and it gets me through, gets me back on track in these small, strange, necessary ways.
In other notes,
leadensky has posted a top 10 female characters list. I'd like to encourage everyone to follow that example. Hossgal does a beautiful job of showing what it is about these characters that draw her in, that make her stick around and I'd so love to see the other people on my flist do the same thing:)