I won a major award (sort of), and it wasn't a leg lamp!

I tied with Vince in the VIVI Awards, in the category Best Poetry / Fiction Journal. I tried very hard not to count on winning, but I'm very relieved anyway.

VIVI Winners listIn other news, it's time for my Saturday night fiction entry, and I've had a little trouble deciding what to do, ( Read more... )

From The Daily Snooze II:

The Advertising Slogan Generator

The disappointing thing about it is that they're all real advertising slogans, with your chosen word subsituted somewhere.  Still, I found myself reloading the thing for at least ten minutes, probably longer.  Here are my favorites:

It's Good To Talk Mâvarin.

More Mâvarin Please.

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Meme from Shelly (prestoimp).

First sentence or two of everything I'm currently working on:

Mall of Mavarin (currently running as a serial in Musings and in Messages)

By the time Carl and Catherine Salazar finished their morning chores, they had missed the bus again; so their Uncle Jamie took them to school in the Saturn.

Joshua Wander: My Favorite Ghost ( ( Read more... )

Snagged from Shelly:

In other news, I have no clue why the guys collapsed while shopping at the mall. Anybody have any ideas about this?

Karen

Sara (qelenhn) has set up a page of links to make it easy to read her Ruby Horse serial in order.  This is a fun and funny thing, and you should be reading it, if you aren't already.  What's more, you should be voting, because she has it set up along the lines of a Choose Your Own Adventure.

As for my two current serials, Joshua Wander: My Favorite Ghost ( Read more... )

I had major ideas a day or two ago about most of the rest of Mall of.  I'm very relieved!  It requires introducing Li into the plot at this late date, but I can live with that. The stuff I finally came up with makes sense, and it has potential for further complications as well as a semi-workable explanation and solution.  (At least, I think it ( Read more... )

Today I sat in my doctor's office for half an hour, and in an examination room for another twenty minutes, before she finally got around to me. I spent part of the time with my eyes closed, and part of it writing a bit of Mall of Mavarin.  Well, in theory that's what I was writing.  But I decided today that I can't post it, at least not in Musings ( Read more... )

I've had a stressful day at work, Zorro The Gay Blade is on in the next room, and I've finished tonight's Musings entry.  Time to turn to this poor neglected LJ thing.

State of the Karen, 5/23/05:

Work: potentially good, if I can work out this latest thing that was dropped in my lap at 4:37.  I think it's sort of an intelligence test.  That, or ( Read more... )

On Monday, I was pleased that Joshua Wander solved a problem I set for him, to find a good present for a ghost. But I still didn't have a plot for the second JW serial (second sequence in the JW novel), currently running in email only to people who ask for it ( Read more... )