I am finding myself in the mood for some slightly schmoopy, sad-happy romance - sort of, girl meets boy, girl doesn't think she's good enough, boy turns out to be brilliant at making her feel good enough. Anyone have any recs? (I guess Bridget Jones and Persuasion would be the obvious ones, but I'd rather not go back and reread when there must be ( Read more... )

1. I fail at updating here, mainly because I seem to have fallen into a vortex of writing and working, leaving hardly any time for other stuff. I'm still here, though, reading and commenting when I can. Tell me if you think I've missed anything I should know about!

2. You have about 36 hours left to sign up for rs_small_gifts. This is one of my favourite fests ( Read more... )

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It's quiet around these parts this morning. *looks around* I thought the US had a bank holiday on Monday, not Wednesday.

Just remembered that I must go and vote on this week's entries at genhp_ldws, so I'll do that shortly ( Read more... )

...although I am back on antibiotics to hopefully kick out the last of the infection that caused the pneumonia last month. Life is kind of frustrating at the moment - I'm trying to take it easy, but also need to earn money, so any energy I have is going on paid work, and if I overdo it, I end up in bed again. Feh. I have tried to pop in here and ( Read more... )

1. Why, oh, why, oh, why do writers' festivals bring out the lunatics in such droves?

( Cut for ranting )

I had a big screed here about why I choose to read and rec the stories that I read and rec (or a response to the question: Why isn't anyone reading my story?). But what it boils down to is the usual: people have limited time, so they choose stories that appeal to them, based on characters, pairing, rating, summary, length and a host of other ( Read more... )

I have been quiet because I have been 1) working, 2) writing and 3) following RaceFail09.

1) Too much work to do. That is all.

2) Have a draft of my springtime_gen story. Probably too emotionally attached to it. Am going to revise it a few times before looking for a nasty beta-reader (it needs a mean beta-reader because I love it too much ( Read more... )

1) Which book has been on your shelves the longest?

Here in Oz, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, which is the only book I brought with me. I should probably get rid of it, since I didn't enjoy it that much (I thought the short stories set in the same universe were much better). Back home, I inherited quite a few from my parents, but the one that ( Read more... )

I have been reading various of the recent tangle of posts on white privilege and writing people of colour, and I hope I have learned a few things. However, I tend to stay out of these sorts of discussions where I feel so very clueless, so the main tangible result is that I discovered 50books_poc, a community in which people challenge themselves to read fifty ( Read more... )