Alpha or France???

[brugenmeister]

So first off, I have not checked lj in a while, but I just did, and congrats to Rachel on her publication! Can't wait to read the story. I'm sure we're all slightly jealous and more than slightly proud of her

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[lady_puck9999]

Mad Men is made of win. And don't leave that story behind! Come back to it someday. It will miss you if you neglect it.

[brugenmeister]

I probably will, but I think I will be submitting it to the Dell Awards as is.

[elanid]

Alpha vs. France: Obviously, I'd love to be able to tell you to just go to Alpha, but...damn, that's a really hard choice! I think my brain is too saturated with Chinese right now to advise you on that just at the moment, but if you want someone to Tevye at ("on the other hand...on the other hand..."), you know my email. :)

evolutionary biology of trees
Eeeh!

story
If this is the one I owe you a critique for, I promise I'll get on that after, uhh, Tuesday (when my last coursework is due). PROMISE. (I am such a bad person lately.)

I think it is also having an influence on my current story.
It drives me CRAZY when this happens, okay. CRAZY. You have no idea! *is very susceptible to other people*

[brugenmeister]

The one I sent you is the one I'm discontented with, yes. I made a few minor changes immediately after writing that post (cut out 200 words), but it still makes me unhappy.

And I found this wonderful book on trees by this guy Colin Tudge. It's called "The Tree". Original, I know. I prefer the U.K. title "The Secret Life of Trees". Why do they have to crappify the title for North America? I'm 3/4ths of the way through. I also have this book by Michael Pollan called "The Biology of Desire", though that one has no direct correlation with trees.

And Mad Men isn't having too adverse an effect. It's not dictating the story, thankfully.