I thought I'd post the pitch I sent in for the annual Pitch-a-palooza. It's for my 2012 NaNo (which has a... nearly complete first draft!). It was a lot of fun to write, though I still don't really know the tone I'm shooting for. I'm workshopping the first section of this in mid-March... I wonder if I'll have the ending written by then. Meep ( Read more... )

I feel I must update on the complaint I posted (as generally and vaguely as possible) a few days ago. Friend sent me one of the top three classiest apologies I've ever received, so now I am heartwarmed ( Read more... )

I'm having issues with a friend of mine flaking on me for a specific Thing we're trying to do. Friend skipped out the first couple times for legit reasons but skipped out again recently with no explanation. The last time Friend skipped out, I gave Friend a graceful out in case Friend was no longer interested in doing the Thing. My feelings will ( Read more... )

Guys, I haven't checked LJ since LAST YEAR!! That's one thing I like about this time of year, getting to say that I haven't done something since LAST YEAR. Always in caps ( Read more... )

I am there! Find me! Most of what I post, at least at first, will be C&Ped from here though. I plan to be ridiculously generous with my ratings because that's how I roll (also I don't have time to read books I don't like!).

As my sister's birthday approached this year, it struck me that her ( Read more... )

Books -- still on Tiptree. The one is a book with a couple unpublished stories and a lot of correspondence. It's amazing but depressing that her letters are better, funnier, more evocative and more thoughtprovoking than pieces I spend months with. The other is a book of short stories, and the two I just read were real punches to the gut: "Morality ( Read more... )

If I had a blog, I might call it "Bread and Books" because it would be about Things I Bake, Eat, and Read. Most of my FB posts are about cooking, after all. Anyway, I've been so excited about books I've read lately that I had to post on LJ -- Twitter just cannot contain my effusive enthusiasm!

I Am Forbidden by Anouk Markovits: I read this in ( Read more... )

I think everyone who keeps up with me on LJ knows that I have a catling, but just in case not... CATLING!!! The name she came with is Lexi, I think she was originally named Donna (we get email from the microchip people, and they're always on about someone named Donna), and she is ALSO named Cattywhompus/Night Whomps/Whomps. Right now she is ( Read more... )

What's this, a post?? I vaguely remember these things. Blocks of text yanked out of my brain, through my fingers, and set on this magical screen. Anyway ( Read more... )