In "The Old Woman By The Sea" (soon to be renamed), "na" is the gender-neutral term, based on "nagara" (used for "citizen"--and going to be removed). Too many people critiquing found it confusing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun

Poll Gender-Neutral Pronouns

I had such a fabulous dream that I'm now trying to figure out if it would make a good story starter, or if it's just too ridiculous to work. But--but--I've kinda been getting an itch to do something with the sort of urban/rural fantasy thing-that-I-lack-a-handy-genre-handle-for. Not coincidentally, perhaps, either we both slept through the alarm or ( Read more... )

Thursday, half-day of work at NgithOwlBetween trying to wrangle a bachelorette location, picking up my exoskeleton, taking care of the car getting to the repair shop (and all the walking that entailed), I got nothing writing-related done. Some days, this happens. What's important is setting your own rules as to what's important enough that it takes ( Read more... )

• 07:58 So if refinancing is so hard, why the Sam hell am I getting mortgage cold calls?
• 09:27 The hotness (SFW): tinyurl.com/5fe3v6
• 11:48 Have started reading ShadowUnit re-runs. Currently circling the rabbit hole and wondering when I'll fall in. www.shadowunit.org/
• 11:50 ++ Won free screening tix to see Ghost Town.
• 13:23 Interesting editorial re ( Read more... )