Rewriting any story means changing it: moving scenes to better places, making sequences more logical, giving better motivations, fixing plot holes, weaving in dangling bits. I understand that. But one of the scary parts for me is how the characters change. Now the change can give to story more emotion impact and the characters more logical ( Read more... )

 Is anyone else getting those spams with links as comments on lj? I heard on the radio a while ago that the way Google calculates "points" means that having a link placed (even in the comments) on a well viewed site, pushes that linked site towards the top of the page.  And I understand that spam blankets everything, but I don't see how adding ( Read more... )

This is the last day of my week of being in charge of the floral department. Tomorrow the floral manager comes back and my vacation starts. I really can't wait.

Title: Gestures
Status: Part 10 of 10
Genre: science fiction, romance, slash
Rating: PG (13?)
Content: a crowd, keeping, itch, a meeting, suspension, news, cookies, Orion, fame, dinner, ( Read more... )

I met my daughter’s new boyfriend on Halloween. He was dressed in a black suit with a red tie and my older son instantly recognized his costume (Agent 47, from a video game, I believe) even before he turned around and we spotted the barcode on the back of his shaved head.

He is six eight (203cm, the same height as Kurt). I know other men who are in ( Read more... )

I can't think of anything to say.

Title: Gestures
Status: Part 8 of 10
Genre: science fiction, romance, slash
Rating: PG (13?)
Content: Dinner, stars, crafts, memories, destruction, a fairytale, fires, welcome, boots, a dream, clothes, washing, marks, journey, a grass parasol
Length: about 2,800 words
Summary: Colt is welcomed as a Hunter, but it’s ( Read more... )

Some days I really love my job. Today I had three customers that stood out. One guy came to get a single rose. He’d come in yesterday for one as well. When I gave my parting comment ‘Have a nice day’ he responded that he was working on it. I had to smile. I don’t mind helping someone get laid.

The second guy laid down almost eighty dollars without ( Read more... )

This is the week I only worked two days, but this also turned out to be the week that my sons got Thursday and Friday off. I’ve got nothing written and a kitchen full of dirty dishes. Guess what I’m doing next.

Title: Gestures
Status: Part 6 of 10
Genre: science fiction, romance, slash
Rating: PG 13
Content: trying to explain, pain, a startling ( Read more... )

The Floral manager (my immediate boss) left me a note yesterday ( rant )

Although I only work two days this week (one of them tomorrow), I feel like my week is speeding by. I feel like I'm not getting anything done, but I have written a chapter plus of Harmonies, two of three parts of the second section of Trifecta, and 2k words of the second Wings story typed in. And I still have four hours before anyone gets home.

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As I was working on a story where the two of the leads were eighteen and thirty-two, my daughter mentioned that she had a boyfriend. (I had kind of guessed this, the hickey on her neck was a big give away.)  I knew he had to be older than her because all the guys in her dance class over the summer were older. And I was pretty sure he was a guy from ( Read more... )