7219 / 50000 words. 14% done!

+ do you remember my neighbor? I talked about her a while back, because she was dying and I loved her. I never did say it, but she did die soon after that, and I just now wanted to say that when she was young, she went up the Rhine River on Hitler's yacht with her husband and his regiment, and it was her birthday, ( Read more... )

+ my library got in around 11 new Pratchett books. feast on those words. ELEVEN NEW PRATCHETT BOOKS THAT I HAVEN'T READ ASHKLGHDLFKDJGS. well, that's no longer true. I've already finished three of them - Jingo, Equal Rites, and Thief of Time, all three of which were FABULOUS. I now feel a great desire more of Susan Sto Helit, and thoroughly ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm pretty sure this is going to be a post on the scale of epic.

( thanks and cracked teeth )

Today in things Betsy accomplished writing-wise.

-continued writing Buffy/Narnia crossover. Jumped time. Ignored actual canon show timing (of course!).
-edited M.Pop/S.Pev kind-of fic written by me and Lass and Wyrm some and sent it back. perhaps something shall come of this?
-procrastinated a lot
-had this conversation come up while writing roadtrip! ( Read more... )

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First there are facts. “The King died.” Then are plots. “The King died and the Queen died.” Then there are motives. “The King died and the Queen died of grief.” And then there is story. "The King died. The Queen lived."

Yes, I'm well aware that that is not how the original quote went, but that's how mine goes. Writing is a story of life, and the ( Read more... )

Places my four road trippers are visiting.

Lincoln Park Zoo, in Chicago. There is a sign somewhere with the quote "Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has," by Margaret Mead. When my family visited it while my sister was in college at Wheaton, we all sat under ( Read more... )

( church annoyances )