*sigh* Combining the first two chapters isn't so difficult, but it largely involves sync-ing several people's edits to something reasonable. As a result, fuyu_no_fuhei has convinced me to wait until lareinenoire arrives here tomorrow before deleting/rebuilding/polishing. They're going to take it all apart while I'm off stuffing Readercon packets ( Read more... )

Strange day - full of work done, The Lathe of Heaven finished (and a review/Le Guin thoughts post brewing), a discussion of what is "hard" science fiction simultaneously brewing, and the first lines of Honour appearing ( Read more... )

Poll Novel Filter Poll

Note: Those already on the filter can feel free to vote or not as they see fit. Unless you wish off, in which case it's probably best that you go ahead and tell me so. :)

But it's raining. Which makes me very sad.

I did buy Mélusine and am into Chapter 2. Exposition, who needs this exposition, I ask you? Just about everything that I'm spoiled for due to Amazon recommending The Virtu to me has already happened. Well, aside from the fact that the protagonists have yet to actually, you know, meet ( Read more... )

Having sent Glamour (yay! it has a title that I can call it now!) off for editing, phase 1, my brain is divided on the things we should do next ( Read more... )

Vacation was wonderful, very restive. I've only been back a day, and so not fully into the swing of things yet, but I'm already procrastinating. Our DVR broke while we were away, thus I have no Dr. Who, no West Wing, no Veronica Mars, and no Boston Legal. I also can't get cable in my living room. The company will replace the unit on Tuesday, ( Read more... )

So far this month I've gotten into grad schools and chosen the one I shall be attending next year. But if that wasn't enough, I just wrote the final word of the first draft of my novel!

I have totally earned my Caribbean vacation, oh yes.

( Wherein I talk more about the book. )

So I finally entered Gather's Short Fiction Competition, revising probably the first story I could bring myself to show people to do so.

Title: Invincible Summer
Author: Adelynne
Category: Gen, Original
Rating: G
Word Count: 2,578
"In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
- Albert Camus

Read it ( Read more... )

I posted a short story over here, at Gather.

Not entirely sure how I feel about that one, though.

I, like buffyx, am pondering the creation of an "original fic" filter. I'm part-way through my first novel, which is untitled YA Urban Fantasy, and one of three. I'm also part-way through novels 2 and 3 (also untitled) in the series, because the characters feel like talking about different parts of the plot at different times, and I have to sit there ( Read more... )