State of Me
+Just got home after a long, long weekend out of town and away from internets. I will try to catch up on comments soon, but staring at skip=2,000,000 makes me despair of ever catching up with the flist. Be sure to let me know the important bits I have missed.
+My feminism rant/meta got picked up over at metafandom, which, frankly, scared the crap out of me, but the avalanche of comments actually ended up being quite interesting and thinky and generally positive, even if I thought the point got lost occasionally. And a bunch of new points were brought up that I was forced to address and I know I've learned even more and that's always the hope of discussions like these, right?
+Found a new album I quite like, and one song in particular that I think is the perfect soundtrack for Jack and Sam in later bits of Wreckage. Which hopefully is a good sign. (Come on, brain, come back to the shiny. You love apocalypses and uber-angst, remember?) Oh, and the song is Changing Colors by Great Lake Swimmers, if you care. It's a great album, the whole thing, even if my husband has come to call my musical taste "songs to slit my wrists to." Boys. They have no sense of lyricism.
+And here's a question for you all, readers and writers alike (if you made it this far into this post). You may or may not have noticed that I have a tendency to write fic in present tense. I have received comments from time to time to the effect, "I really hate present tense stories, it keeps pushing me out of the story." I know that third person past tense is the "standard" for fiction, more or less. I was wondering what your preferences are. And maybe if it's possible that the problem with present tense is not so much that the tense doesn't work, but that we are not used to reading it. Or maybe not. I don't know. Just something I have been wondering about.
+Oh, and last, but certainly not least, I have noticed a small spat of new people friending this LJ. No one respects the rights of lurkers more than me, but if you feel like it, I'd love to get a chance to say howdy and hear what got you here to my little corner. And, though this really shouldn't need saying, I just thought I'd say again that my friending policy is waaaaaay laid back. Anyone wanting to defriend me for whatever little or big reason should feel free, no hard feelings. Spheres shift, I so get that. And if I don't friend you back right away, please don't take offense, I'm sort of half glacial, half completely oblivious. I think there's some checkbox somewhere to ask to get notifications about that sort of stuff, but I kind of never realized until very recently that it's even there. lol
Enough blather. Back to writing. Or not-writing as it may be. Argh.
+My feminism rant/meta got picked up over at metafandom, which, frankly, scared the crap out of me, but the avalanche of comments actually ended up being quite interesting and thinky and generally positive, even if I thought the point got lost occasionally. And a bunch of new points were brought up that I was forced to address and I know I've learned even more and that's always the hope of discussions like these, right?
+Found a new album I quite like, and one song in particular that I think is the perfect soundtrack for Jack and Sam in later bits of Wreckage. Which hopefully is a good sign. (Come on, brain, come back to the shiny. You love apocalypses and uber-angst, remember?) Oh, and the song is Changing Colors by Great Lake Swimmers, if you care. It's a great album, the whole thing, even if my husband has come to call my musical taste "songs to slit my wrists to." Boys. They have no sense of lyricism.
+And here's a question for you all, readers and writers alike (if you made it this far into this post). You may or may not have noticed that I have a tendency to write fic in present tense. I have received comments from time to time to the effect, "I really hate present tense stories, it keeps pushing me out of the story." I know that third person past tense is the "standard" for fiction, more or less. I was wondering what your preferences are. And maybe if it's possible that the problem with present tense is not so much that the tense doesn't work, but that we are not used to reading it. Or maybe not. I don't know. Just something I have been wondering about.
+Oh, and last, but certainly not least, I have noticed a small spat of new people friending this LJ. No one respects the rights of lurkers more than me, but if you feel like it, I'd love to get a chance to say howdy and hear what got you here to my little corner. And, though this really shouldn't need saying, I just thought I'd say again that my friending policy is waaaaaay laid back. Anyone wanting to defriend me for whatever little or big reason should feel free, no hard feelings. Spheres shift, I so get that. And if I don't friend you back right away, please don't take offense, I'm sort of half glacial, half completely oblivious. I think there's some checkbox somewhere to ask to get notifications about that sort of stuff, but I kind of never realized until very recently that it's even there. lol
Enough blather. Back to writing. Or not-writing as it may be. Argh.