I haven't had a thud in a while, so I decided to report on it. "Currer Bell Comes to America," complete today at 5765 words. It is unabashedly YA, alternate universe, and totally one of those sorts of pet stories where you get to ride around on your hobby horse like an idiot, showing everyone all the weird theories you cherish--in this case, ( Read more... )

In spite of this week, I managed to finish her. Jane Elliott. DONE at 91,000 words.

Now, just a little combing through to make sure I didn't get really dumb somewhere. And to figure out some things about New Zealand, and whatever else I didn't want to look up at the time.

I have a handwarmer/cat steeping/sleeping underneath the halogen lamp, a glass of ice, and a two-liter of Diet Coke by my desk. I have a list of notes, a strong outline, and a reasonable sense of where I would flee to if I burned down a house and tried to murder my husband in 1834.

This book is gonna END.

-Where did I put that page of notes on Victorian madness and insane asylums? REALLY. It's been days since I started looking for it.

-Is it necessary to point out random connections when I talk to people on the phone? "Hey, my name is Merrie, too!" or (today, on the phone with an ILL staff member at Northern Illinois University) "Do you know rarelylynne? ( Read more... )

( Mr. Rochester is supposed to be UGLY. My textual evidence: let me show you it. )

...Or, if you remember what you thought it was about before you read it.

Those of you who have not read Jane Eyre, nor seen the movie, could you summarize in the comments for me what you think the book is about... with specifics regarding plot... and what your occupation is? And how/what other Victorian literature you have read instead ( Read more... )

Not that I'm cranky, I'm just making it because I just sorta realized I am going to have to lock down my talky mouth about writing this book, just like the last one, because that's apparently how I function: I am a totally batshit insane superstitious crazy pants who can't talk about books while she's writing them or she kills them dead ( Read more... )