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[02 Feb 2005|09:46pm] |
Help!
I'm writing a paper about girls dressed as boys in young adult fiction. I have a couple of books in mind already, but I need more. I'm trying to get a well-rounded selection of sources, so all genres are welcome. However, I've already got two historicals on seafaring/piracy, and I really, really don't want to read any more Tamora Pierce.
Okay. Rec me! And I will love you some good.
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[30 Aug 2004|10:25pm] |
If anyone needs a g-mail invite, I have three two five up for grabs.
ETA: Okay, I have like eighteen invites now. Just, if anyone ever wants one or three, let me know.
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[15 Aug 2004|10:56pm] |
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I spent a good chunk of my riveting day organizing my bookmarks. I had over two hundred HP fic links to sort out, most of which were years old, and, unsurprisingly, dead. I hate that, not knowing what I'm missing. But, ah, I don't actually read fanfiction. I just bookmark it. Every time anyone points at it. Not a great system.
Except, wait, that's not true. Yesterday I read Transfigurations, by Resonant, and that should really be the point of this post. If you like H/D at all and if you, like me, live under a rock, or for any other reason haven't already read it, you should. Really. It's so wonderful, and I dare say that if it weren't for the freakin' Miones everywhere, it would be as close to perfect as any fic I've ever read.
The other point of this post is to confess that HoH rewrites are officially underway, which means I've made a decision. You're stunned, I'm sure. Ridiculous time for decision-making, since I'm so busy it hurts (this weekend doesn't prove it, but I am, truly), but I'm determined, or something very like it. Starting with the easy parts, so it's going pretty well at the moment, but this is definitely going to get tricky. Just, please, kick me the next time I start freaking out about this story. Please.
And. I did have one other point. But Amber won't let me make it.
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| OH MY GOD I AM STUPID. |
[17 Jul 2004|11:16am] |
I left my refrigerator door open last night. I think I killed it. Tell me you used to work for GE and that I can fix this myself.
ETA: Uh, nevermind.
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| There's an echo in here.. |
[13 Jan 2004|03:39pm] |
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I know, I know, this is so last week, but on the off chance that any of you haven't seen this Ron-is-Dumbledore essay, you might want to take a look.
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| A Note of Interest (Well, Possibly) |
[28 Dec 2003|10:31pm] |
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So, after sending ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lasultrix a petulant e-mail this morning, I found out that hotmail's been arbitrarily devouring important e-mails. Again. Like Las's beta return on chapter five. Which she sent weeks ago.
Hotmail and I are in a fight. And I'm really sorry.
But you might like to know that chapter five has been submitted to Schnoogle, and will be uploaded to FFN as soon as it's up on FA.
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| Some Things |
[31 Oct 2003|11:06pm] |
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HoH5 is with the betas. Barely resisting the urge to crawl under my desk and cry.
Also.
I have recs.
First, read Aggression, by alice_and_lain because it's Millicent/Hermione smut and because it's excellent.
After that, go to hp.pfen.net. And just stay there. That archive hosts the cream of the HP fic crop. All amazing.
Also.
( I drew a picture. )
Okay, hiding now. Happy Halloween, bunnies.
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[26 Oct 2003|11:03pm] |
I just finished reading Catalyst, by Laurie Halse Anderson. Brutal YA literature. It was good, though perhaps not quite as cogent as Anderson's other big book, Speak. Teri Litch is so Millicent Bulstrode. Just... a lot more screwed up. And Kate is very much Hermione. All through the book I had my fingers crossed for Kate/Teri. If only there were a sequel.
Spent most of the day editing HoH 1-4. Nothing big, just cleaning up some things that were bothering me. I plan to resubmit the edited chapters to FA and FFN over the next few days, though I suspect that the FA volunteers hate when people do this. But I really want to get that straight before I get chapter 5 to my betas. And I'm not kidding when I say that should be within the week.
Wow, would you look at that.
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| I <3 my betas. |
[14 Oct 2003|07:53pm] |
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I don't know when I was supposed to do this, but now seems good.
My first beta was a girl from FAP. I can't for the life of me remember her name. I think it must have been her first beta job, because after having the first chapter of HoH for two or three weeks she wrote me a nice e-mail basically saying "keep it up". That was frustrating and I fired her, probably very rudely. Mistake, mistake. She meant well, I'm sure, and the encouragement did help.
Shortly after, I put out another help-wanted ad on FAP. lasultrix responded, and in a matter of days managed to whip my first chapter into shape. I started to get reviews at that point. No coincidence. Las is the queen of grammar and punctuation, she Brit-picks, and she knows canon, inside out. She intimidates the hell out of me, but I have nothing but respect for her. The girl is brilliant, and so is everything she writes.
One of my favorite reviews ever came from millefiori, and by e-mail. I wrote back to thank her and before long we were corresponding pretty regularly. She has since become one of my favorite online friends. I am consistently blown away by her writing, and when she offered to beta for me, I felt like the luckiest girl in fandom. Still do. M is a wonderful beta, and people are always complimenting the things in my work that she thought of. She manages to remain tactful and supportive even when I send her Really Bad Work (My in-progress SoS fic). And that she has enough faith in my work to let me beta hers? It's the ultimate compliment.
alice_and_lain also betaed my SoS fic, and she, too, was far kinder than I deserved. She's so in tune with the workings of the human mind, is full of good advice, and is frank without being hurtful. I hope she'll work with me again in the future, and I wish I could pimp her own awesome, but yet unfinished Millicent/Hermione story.
So many others have kindly offered to beta for me, no doubt in hopes of getting me to, um, you know, write, but I'm incredibly fortunate to have the support and intelligence of these women backing me up. I couldn't possibly ask for more.
Squish!
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[14 Oct 2003|11:49am] |
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I managed to miss out on this secret crush business, but apparently someone used to have one on me, and doesn't any more. This is so the story of my life.
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| On Weather, and Whether... |
[29 Sep 2003|09:52am] |
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So, it turns out I don't really like hurricanes.
I went a whole week without power, two days without water, five days without hot water, and five days without cooking gas. It was horrible. Some people in the area still don't have those things, so I know I shouldn't whine, and I'm not going to. Really.
EXCEPT for this: as a bonus, since my university was closed for three days, our (very first) fall break has been canceled. ARGH.
But I do have a point, sort of. Since artmaking by candlelight is too, too hard, every day ended at about 7PM, which left me with six or seven hours of reading/knitting time every night.
I mentioned this to a girl in my textiles class on Wednesday and she asked what I'd been reading. I sort of mumbled something about Embarrassing Fantasy (I read the Nightrunner series by Lynn Flewelling [good!], started the Last Herald Mage series by Mercedes Lackey [not too bad!], and read some Pratchett) and she said, sympathetically, "That's okay. I read the Harry Potter books."
Instant bonding! That's always exciting news, but coming from one of my snobby, elitist peers? No words.
Then she said, I swear, "Do you read fic?"
Dropped-jaw, I said, "WHAT?"
And she said, "Did you read the fifth?"
SO. I'm very suspicious now. But I have no idea how to press the issue. Especially when it could really just be a matter of my selective hearing.
I've always wanted a real life fanfriend...
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| In Other News... |
[14 Sep 2003|02:47pm] |
Okay, I'm definitely not going to make the deadline for the SoS challenge. Not for lack of betas (millefiori is a goddess). It's just not finished.
I'm really disappointed in myself, and regretting that I didn't give up the pairing back when there was still time for someone with discipline to take it instead. Honestly, I had a feeling it wasn't quite going to work out.
But on the other hand, I'm starting to think this story has potential. And now that there's no reason to make it NC-17, which it turns out I'm too prudish to write anyway, it's going to be a lot less stressful to write. Plus, I can put it on FFN and FA.
But anyway, yeah, I'm probably going to work on it a bit more this week, then take a couple weeks off to work on HoH. I think.
The end.
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| Fic Emergency, Sort Of. |
[13 Sep 2003|10:59pm] |
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Within the hour, I expect to send my SoS Sibyll/Minerva fic off to millefiori and alice_and_lain for betaing.
Since Las is on vacation, however, I'm in need of a punctuation beta. The story's stylistically a punctuation nightmare, and I think, in this case, there couldn't possibly be too many cooks in the kitchen, if you will.
If any of you are willing to look it over, I'd be most grateful. BUT. The fic is due tomorrow at midnight EST, and I need it back by 10 at the latest, which means I need a super-speedy beta job. The story's just about 2,200 words (five pages in Word.) All I'm asking is punctuation.
Any takers? There's a shiny, free shoutout in it for you.
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| So Incredibly Meaningless, Yes Yes Yes. |
[07 Sep 2003|01:21am] |
I made some icons, and have decided against waiting for a good opportunity to use them. This one's a self-portrait.
I've been fighting my SoS fic, but am still clinging to the possibility of actually making the deadline. I'm going to feel like an ass if I don't, but my writing muses are so, er, not there. I think there must be a trick to this writing business. So many prolific writers on my friends list - tell me your secrets.
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| Er... |
[26 Aug 2003|08:45pm] |
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I hate to ask another question, but can all/any of you with websites PLEASE tell me about your hosts? I was reading the acceptable use policy at ace-host.net and saw that under their terms I would not even be allowed to hyperlink to sites with adult content. I need cheap service, but.. but..
Please.
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