With apologies to Jane Austen, I present to you MAGIC & MANNERS, which is what happens when I get it into my head to wonder what PRIDE & PREJUDICE would be like if it was not a lack of wealth that beleaguered the Bennet sisters, but rather an excess of magic… (ETA: oh, that’s insane, it actually is Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Wretch Day, wherein people post free fiction. I’d forgotten that was on Shakespeare’s birthday. How clever of me!) That each and every one of Mrs Dover’s five daughters was afflicted…
*laughs*
*laughs* Possibly the most-fun in a totally silly way thing about Twitter is that one occasionally communicates with people one has no expectation of ever communicating with. To wit: an actor I follow (the guy after whom Morrison was accidentally both named and described, actually) said “thanks for all the birthday wishes”, hence alerting me to it being his birthday. Being a clever wit, I said “Oh hey happy birthday!” to him, and he said “oh hey thank you!” back. This is completely meaningless in the grand scheme of things,…
thinks to do today
– sign contract #1 – sign contract #2 – see if there are any other contracts i need to sign >.< - finish boxing up those papers - get deirdre to babysit for 30 minutes - go to post office - don't eat any junk food - start revising "year of miracles" - make bread – do laundry – try to remember the thing i sat down to put on this list initially :p
Jim Steinman, picoreviews & Jane Austen
Not that the objects of the subject line have anythign to do with one another, you understand, they’re just both on my mind. The first because I’m listening to Jim Steinman music, and it always makes me want to write a rock & roll fantasy, and then I’m depressed because I can’t imagine actually writing something that does to me what the over-the-top Steinman music does. Picoreviews: I have been to BATTLESHIP and THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY this weekend. Picoreview: THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY: I spent the entire…
And one go alone…
I have just submitted the 2nd to last Walker Papers to my editor. I feel faintly sick now. I’m on the last leg of a 12 year journey now, and…wow. Just wow. Holy crap. I realized a few minutes ago that there’s one mistake in SPIRIT DANCES: the last lines should be “to be continued in RAVEN CALLS”, rather than whatever it says (tune in next time, I think). RAVEN CALLS does say “to be continued”, and MOUNTAIN ECHOES’s last words are “to be concluded in the final book of…