genre-busting

This is Laura’s fault. Favorite series, by genre. I’m trying to keep it down to 3 series per, or I’ll be here all year. Note, however, that I cleverly separated out SF and fantasy, allowing me to include both The Coldfire Trilogy and the Fionavar Tapestry as #1 without compromising myself. :) My criteria here are not necessarily that these are the *best* series I’ve read, but rather that they’re my favorites. These are the ones that I have re-read and will re-read over and over again. Comfort food, rather…

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woot!

The jelly seems to have set up! Yay! Now we’ll have to see what it tastes like. :) Ted’s making danishes. MmMMMmmmm. And, um, that’s about all there is to report this morning. o.o

jelly, not writing

I haven’t written. I did make grape jelly, but I’m almost certain it’s not going to turn out. I think I put too much liquid in, ’cause I misunderstood the instructions. Well, we’ll see. My hair has reached this length that I didn’t know existed. It is a length of ‘Ok, I would like to braid this back out of the way now please’. I don’t remember ever having hair which I had the impulse to braid before, so this is clearly a new and different length for me. (I’m…

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mandarin painting and other good stuff :)

Got my act together this morning and sent Ursula some more money toward the Mandarin painting (if any of you were trying *desperately* to figure out how you could spend some money on me, you could send Ursula some money toward the painting; that’d be splendid :)), and it’s a good thing I managed to do /that/, at least, ’cause I utterly failed to get up and write this morning. But I did get about three and a half chapters rewritten this weekend, and cut a chapter entirely, so now…

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writing

I think I’ve got most of the bad parts of ch. 13 that were holding me back fixed. The end is still cludgy, but I can fix that. I think ch. 14 is going to look completely different, and then there’s this whole other plot line that I’ve got to figure out how to work in. It’s possible I’m going to have to rip 12 and 13 out again and redo them completely, because Margrit might be in a situation she can’t get out of right now. I don’t know.…

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