I'm now calling this the Neverending Story. It's way over 10,000 words and.... I'm approximately 2/3 of the way done. My earlier estimate has fallen by the wayside - it rolled down the embankment, landed in the stream and was carried to the ocean never to be seen again. So, if you like long pieces you'll be happy. If you're antsy you probably ( Read more... )

It's going well. I'm about halfway done, and cannot say how much longer it will take me to finish. But, bottom line is: it's going, and it's going well, and I think it's pretty good. I'm getting good FB from my private readers, anyway.

Lherelenfeline won the auction for my writing services, and has requested a Jack/Ed story. It will actually be more than a short story because of the word count. To my way of thinking, it will be close to a novella. Technically, a novelette. Doesn't that sound precious ( Read more... )

Waltzmatildah on LJ started a fic challenge, to get folks to donate $ for Queensland flood relief. You bid, we authors write for the winning bidders. Here is my entry ( Read more... )

I've been playing with podfic / audiofic over the past week. I was contacted by someone wanting to record some Jack/Ed things, who pointed me in the direction of an LJ community that's into making audio recordings of fic. Sounded like a spot of fun, so I tried it. Downloaded a piece of software that lets you edit to your heart's content... and I ( Read more... )

I decided that I was going to do a little digging about LindaK's death to find out what the cause of death ultimately was. ( more... )

Last spring, I had a fall, scraped my shin and ended up in the ER with an open wound on my leg. It wasn't dressed for 5 hours while I had other tests for the more serious issues. I ended up developing a MRSA infection -- that nasty staph that doesn't respond to drugs. I ended up in hell, with surgery to cut out the infection from my leg (an ( Read more... )

I'm so totally out of fandom touch these days -- heck, barely online at all other than once/week -- I don't know if this is common knowledge. Sam W. was on the daily NPR show Talk of the Nation Tuesday. I heard the first five minutes of it before I chose to stop and catch the latest on my birth state IL's fascinating, completely whacked-out ( Read more... )

Sad news arrived today via Google. LindaK, who was a fandom friend, cowriter of our Jack/Ed round robin, and so much more to me, died on October 18. She had been sick for a while, increasingly so over the summer -- our emails were incredibly exciting ::snort:: filled with "so how are you doing this week, eh??" bitches and moans about being down ( Read more... )

.... if they had any notion that poetry even exists as a form of writing. The new Poet Laureate of the United States was named last week by the Librarian of Congress. Her name is Kay Ryan, and she's an out lesbian. Her orientation of course has no bearing on her position, but it's delicious, nonetheless. In the past, the Poet Laureate has ( Read more... )