Comments | rj_anderson: Like, so TOTALLY cool.

rj_anderson

Like, so TOTALLY cool.

Sep 13, 2006 20:25

Can you tell I've been watching the "Valley Girl" extras from the HOUSE S2 DVDs?

Anyway, look at the shiny pretty thing that is Writely! I've been wanting something like this for ages!

Other super-nifty things include the very exciting news, kindly mailed to me by Hottt Cheryl (do I have the right number of t's? I've lost track of how many she's ( Read more... )

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meril September 14 2006, 00:42:06 UTC

Just as I was going to do a post on why I didn't think the Temeraire series was the greatest thing since separated bread... ;) Everyone on my flist loves it; I think my problem is I read too many a) Napoleonic books and b) space navy books before reading this. I hate having to discover that there is such a thing as "too much of a good thing."

Have you read all three? I do have to say I liked the second one the best of all, and the third engaged me more due to the alternate history factors than for any other reason.

izhilzha September 14 2006, 00:55:37 UTC

I really haven't kept up on the SF&F novels being published lately, unless I already know the author (and I still haven't gotten around to the 3rd Chalion book, so not even that). I hadn't heard a whisper of these, but now I think I shall have to look them up!

Thanks.

kalquessa September 15 2006, 05:16:16 UTC

Oh yes, please do read Novik. So, so brilliant. I just want to eat her books. Yum!

rose_in_shadow September 14 2006, 01:17:27 UTC

Anyway, look at the shiny pretty thing that is Writely!

Writing.com is similar, though, admittedly, I've only glanced at the Writely website. Looks interesting though.

Isn't the news about the Temerarie books great? I just posted about it too, though not as coherently :-D.

rj_anderson September 14 2006, 02:01:13 UTC

Writing.com isn't the same thing at all, actually. Writely isn't a forum for writers, it's a utility to let you write drafts and save them online, and easily export your stuff to (or import from) Word. It'd be perfect for writing fic and having other people beta-read it, for instance.

izhilzha September 14 2006, 17:11:42 UTC

Yeah, the Invisible Man Virtual season (which I write for) has just started using Writely, and it's making our mulitple-beta and discussion process SO much easier.

rose_in_shadow September 15 2006, 00:29:12 UTC

When I'm away from Word, I write stuff directly to Writing.com. It's more than just a forum--but, yeah, I see the difference. Nifty. I might have to take a closer look.

kalquessa September 15 2006, 00:07:34 UTC

I actually enjoyed the Jackson LOTR movies, as they were so very pretty and fun to watch, with the added bonus that after I watched them I got to gripe ceaselessly for an hour to whoever would listen about the liberties taken with the canon and the thematic changes and the fact that Farimir and Theoden are not like that so there. And I had a fantastic time both watching and griping. So I figure it's all good.

But yes, here's hoping he treats Temeraire well. *crosses fingers*

anonymous September 15 2006, 04:55:26 UTC

I just adored Tooth & Claw, and I read it at the perfect time: I'd been reading lots of Trollope, and I found T&C right after finishing Framley Parsonage. Jo puts the perfect dragonish spin on all the Victorian tropes.

Temeraire, though--I picked them up with great hopes as I'd loved her other writing, and was slightly disappointed, in part because I judge anything set in the Napoleonic milieu against Patrick O'Brian (which is a really high bar) and partly because I kept falling out of the story and wondering about the physics of her dragons, and that's fatal.

Naomi