Happy Good Friday, everyone!
Today's post contains a newly-updated Book List, now with the links to each book added in from Amazon.com. My reading goal for this year is 34 books; I've just finished the tenth.

I'm also finally getting around to posting the essay I wrote for my brother for his birthday. Titled
The Story of My Childhood, this essay is ( Read more... )

Wow, it has been a while since I've posted anything of substance. However, today, I am updating my Book List and adding one small Andrew and Dawn desktop. I am still working on a Connor/Faith one-shot, which began as a birthday gift for my beta, Mattallica. Yeah... his birthday was January 5th; I'm still a little behind.

Here is the link to the new ( Read more... )

It's cold outside today, and I've remained snuggled on my living room floor in front of the Lappy, toying with the last sections of the epilogue to Anywhere Out of This World. Katya is still in her night gown, the cats are sprawled lazily on the couches, and all of the housework remains piled up, as it has since Christmas break. Katya has almost ( Read more... )

Back on schedule now, I have the next brief chapter of Anywhere Out of This World. Katya and I went horseback riding this weekend, and even though we didn't get to stay as long as we originally hoped, we did have a great time, and we used the rest of our weekend toward creative pursuits. She's writing a new original fiction, and I've finished ( Read more... )

I have the new chapter to post today. During the drafting stage, I tried to focus on Dawn's needs and motivations, and kept coming back to her uniqueness, her singularity. I knew I also had to address Connor in this chapter, too, and realized (again) that they have similar thematic qualities - they are alone in the world. This fact is exploited by ( Read more... )

 So this story is coming along despite the insanity of lesson planning, grading, more grading, and let's see... real life stuff. Thank the heavens for writing. It helps me build partitions around the creative parts of my brain, thereby protecting them from the overwhelmed parts of my brain.

I do have a new chapter to share. This one features ( Read more... )

I have the new chapter of Anywhere Out of This World to post. In it, Connor has dreams. Very vivid dreams. I'm working off the premise that the false memories of Connor's childhood has made him susceptible to mental pitfalls, and Willow's spell to free him from the influence of the Glass did not help matters.

Here's the latest:
Life Is..., Chapter ( Read more... )

We must be having some kind of desktop making Renaissance. B ecause my daughter is so interested in Photoshop, we've been playing a lot lately with stock imagery, filters, lighting effects and brushes. She was home sick from school today, and these were the product of our play:


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Author: celesteavonne
Pairing: Main pairing Spike and Buffy, but not in this chapter.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: This series, Anywhere Out of This World, is turning out to be a study in vampire and demon mythology. It's the continuation of Wishes and Regrets, but the characters have now taken wildly divergent (and wholly unexpected) paths. This chapter, ( Read more... )