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Miscellaneous updates:
I have submitted my dissertation to my committee and for the format check. The format check told me three things to fix, all of which seem to be related to the template they recently updated. As in, Friday. I'm actually glad I didn't notice; it's relatively minor stuff, but would have been frazzling to try to do on Friday when I was trying to finish and print things.
I was trying to finish things on Friday because on Sunday I had to fly to Madison, Wisconsin for a meeting. Next week is another meeting. Twelve days, three meetings, whee. I got to talk! The talk slots are very limited, so I felt much honored. It went very well, too.
In recreational news...
As a sort of reward for finishing my dissertation, I entered the Rainbow Day (or week) poetry contest on Rescreatu, which was ending that night... and won. Competition for the writing contests is getting stiffer with the NTWF invasion, though, and people getting out of school for the summer. I entered the May book contest, too, but I suspect my entry wasn't quite right for the challenge. Fun though. I might post it here at some point. I applied as staff, too, actually. Writer. We'll see how that goes. And signed up for the CCF, which is sort of an organized program for being responsible Rescreatu citizens, but I'm waffling on whether to stay because it seems like there are a bunch of fiddly things to keep track of.
I have realized that when I have a big project, I tend to accumulate other things I want to try to do, and responsibilities I'm tempted to take on. I'm tempted to look for a Padawan on TF.net, too, but I'm not sure I'd really be suited. I'd probably be too hands-off or something. Either that or start cowriting and nag the poor person to death!
I want to finish "Something Better Than This" before the next book comes out, which means writing and posting nearly a chapter per day average, especially if I don't want to be posting the last week when nobody will, you know, care because the real thing is upcoming. I'd also like to archive it somewhere besides LJ. So far ff.net looks like the best option, since I'm not sure what's welcome at the Sugar Quill now, Mugglenet rejected it for having an incoherent summary and not italicizing spell incantations, both of those have an approval/update process that can take several days, and Fictionalley lets me update as I please (I qualified for auto-approval) but has mysteriously attached my fic to someone else's review thread.
I also want to write fic for the latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie. I'm a little puzzled as to how to tackle it given the writers' revelations about how the curses and breaking of them were SUPPOSED to work, though. But on the theory that if people are saying "forever" and "eternity" to Will with great emphasis, it's not general knowledge that a ten-year true love will break the spell, I might have it revealed over the course of the story.
Anyway, one idea, which is probably beyond me, involves... well, first some explanation for why Elizabeth isn't going with him, since Bill can. Possibly involving responsibilities as Pirate King, though they get on well enough without one. Or doing something about her father's death. Or that Davy left a MAJOR backlog, and Will isn't supposed to take a lot of breaks as it is, and really won't have time for a while, and the ship is going to be about too crowded with ghosts to breathe, plus a lot of them are scared of sailing with a woman. (Hey, nobody said the dead had to be rational.)
Heh. If Will CAN take breaks and, ahem, rendezvous with the lovely Pirate King at sea to engage in a little boarding, then there really isn't much reason for the ending to be significant unless it's the spell breaking.
Anyway. Then it involves Elizabeth... really learning what piracy is like. She got a taste of this with Barbossa in the first movie, then learned she wasn't as much better as she might have thought... but it's been pointed out that Jack is a lousy pirate captain in terms of actually acquiring plunder, and gets called on it by his crew. Elizabeth supported the pirates against the East India Company, and nothing seems to have put her off entirely yet, but will she continue to support them in general if she's faced with actively participating in... oh... killing women and children, killing their fathers and husbands who didn't attack her, destroying their livelihood, men under her command wanting to commit rape, realizing that piracy is quite as much about money as the EIC?
And perhaps realizing she's pregnant is in some ways a good excuse to start avoiding some of it. It's not as if they need an active king.
Then again I do have a rather nasty dark!Elizabeth bunny. It might be a drabblebunny.
The other bunny is Will's ferryman activities. I'm assuming he has to either open some sort of floodgate or actually ferry all the people who've died at sea whom Davy didn't get to. Well... for one thing, that includes Norrington. For another, unless he was taken "body and soul" (entirely possible and probably intended), it would include... Davy. And that could be fun.
I have submitted my dissertation to my committee and for the format check. The format check told me three things to fix, all of which seem to be related to the template they recently updated. As in, Friday. I'm actually glad I didn't notice; it's relatively minor stuff, but would have been frazzling to try to do on Friday when I was trying to finish and print things.
I was trying to finish things on Friday because on Sunday I had to fly to Madison, Wisconsin for a meeting. Next week is another meeting. Twelve days, three meetings, whee. I got to talk! The talk slots are very limited, so I felt much honored. It went very well, too.
In recreational news...
As a sort of reward for finishing my dissertation, I entered the Rainbow Day (or week) poetry contest on Rescreatu, which was ending that night... and won. Competition for the writing contests is getting stiffer with the NTWF invasion, though, and people getting out of school for the summer. I entered the May book contest, too, but I suspect my entry wasn't quite right for the challenge. Fun though. I might post it here at some point. I applied as staff, too, actually. Writer. We'll see how that goes. And signed up for the CCF, which is sort of an organized program for being responsible Rescreatu citizens, but I'm waffling on whether to stay because it seems like there are a bunch of fiddly things to keep track of.
I have realized that when I have a big project, I tend to accumulate other things I want to try to do, and responsibilities I'm tempted to take on. I'm tempted to look for a Padawan on TF.net, too, but I'm not sure I'd really be suited. I'd probably be too hands-off or something. Either that or start cowriting and nag the poor person to death!
I want to finish "Something Better Than This" before the next book comes out, which means writing and posting nearly a chapter per day average, especially if I don't want to be posting the last week when nobody will, you know, care because the real thing is upcoming. I'd also like to archive it somewhere besides LJ. So far ff.net looks like the best option, since I'm not sure what's welcome at the Sugar Quill now, Mugglenet rejected it for having an incoherent summary and not italicizing spell incantations, both of those have an approval/update process that can take several days, and Fictionalley lets me update as I please (I qualified for auto-approval) but has mysteriously attached my fic to someone else's review thread.
I also want to write fic for the latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie. I'm a little puzzled as to how to tackle it given the writers' revelations about how the curses and breaking of them were SUPPOSED to work, though. But on the theory that if people are saying "forever" and "eternity" to Will with great emphasis, it's not general knowledge that a ten-year true love will break the spell, I might have it revealed over the course of the story.
Anyway, one idea, which is probably beyond me, involves... well, first some explanation for why Elizabeth isn't going with him, since Bill can. Possibly involving responsibilities as Pirate King, though they get on well enough without one. Or doing something about her father's death. Or that Davy left a MAJOR backlog, and Will isn't supposed to take a lot of breaks as it is, and really won't have time for a while, and the ship is going to be about too crowded with ghosts to breathe, plus a lot of them are scared of sailing with a woman. (Hey, nobody said the dead had to be rational.)
Heh. If Will CAN take breaks and, ahem, rendezvous with the lovely Pirate King at sea to engage in a little boarding, then there really isn't much reason for the ending to be significant unless it's the spell breaking.
Anyway. Then it involves Elizabeth... really learning what piracy is like. She got a taste of this with Barbossa in the first movie, then learned she wasn't as much better as she might have thought... but it's been pointed out that Jack is a lousy pirate captain in terms of actually acquiring plunder, and gets called on it by his crew. Elizabeth supported the pirates against the East India Company, and nothing seems to have put her off entirely yet, but will she continue to support them in general if she's faced with actively participating in... oh... killing women and children, killing their fathers and husbands who didn't attack her, destroying their livelihood, men under her command wanting to commit rape, realizing that piracy is quite as much about money as the EIC?
And perhaps realizing she's pregnant is in some ways a good excuse to start avoiding some of it. It's not as if they need an active king.
Then again I do have a rather nasty dark!Elizabeth bunny. It might be a drabblebunny.
The other bunny is Will's ferryman activities. I'm assuming he has to either open some sort of floodgate or actually ferry all the people who've died at sea whom Davy didn't get to. Well... for one thing, that includes Norrington. For another, unless he was taken "body and soul" (entirely possible and probably intended), it would include... Davy. And that could be fun.