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Not the peaches (the veggie) and raspberries (me), anyway, and since mom likes apples and my brother approves of anything with caloric content...
So yeah, farmer's market. I signed up for a CSA this year, which has been . . . interesting. Feel like I'm paying overmuch for the amounts we're getting (3/4 of an ounce of mint is Way Less than you'd think), but the enforced weekly visits to the farmer's market have been kind of good for us.
I haven't been posting much; fell off the wagon a busy weekend and never quite got back on in July. So, I'm just going to babble a bit, try to get myself back into the habit--
The Beast's getting somewhat less obsessive about the Big Blue Room now that he gets a certain amount of access to said, though we're still a little concerned because he hasn't had his second immunization shot for feline leukemia yet. Work in progress, as is his continuing quest to make himself silver through self-shaving. Neurotic cat, us? Surely you jest.
We need Moar Bookshelves. I'm thinking starting a new wall in the guest bedroom, and seeing what I can do to keep books from escaping the top of my dresser, for starters. Bibliophiles, us?
I continue to struggle with the jigsaw puzzle approach to storytelling, especially with the damn!epic. Massive story is massive. Small pieces are small. Frustration level: Climbing . . .
Me and Ruadhan need to kill a bottle of wine together sometime, see if we can't get over the blank spot in the river baroness expansion. I'm hoping to get a 2400 word piece and a 3600 word piece into a pair of 5000s, or if I'm feeling ambitious a pair of 6000s before posting, but I need Ruadhan and Sidonie for it and neither's being particularly cooperative at the moment (with Sidonie this is hardly surprising, as the sequence details some of her final poor planning decisions).
While I'm banging my head on that, there anything you'd really like to see me write? I acknowledge that at least a few of you have trouble narrowing down requests ('but it's ALL shiny!'), but specific requests get filled way, way faster than generic 'yay tae writing!' approaches. =\
So yeah, farmer's market. I signed up for a CSA this year, which has been . . . interesting. Feel like I'm paying overmuch for the amounts we're getting (3/4 of an ounce of mint is Way Less than you'd think), but the enforced weekly visits to the farmer's market have been kind of good for us.
I haven't been posting much; fell off the wagon a busy weekend and never quite got back on in July. So, I'm just going to babble a bit, try to get myself back into the habit--
The Beast's getting somewhat less obsessive about the Big Blue Room now that he gets a certain amount of access to said, though we're still a little concerned because he hasn't had his second immunization shot for feline leukemia yet. Work in progress, as is his continuing quest to make himself silver through self-shaving. Neurotic cat, us? Surely you jest.
We need Moar Bookshelves. I'm thinking starting a new wall in the guest bedroom, and seeing what I can do to keep books from escaping the top of my dresser, for starters. Bibliophiles, us?
I continue to struggle with the jigsaw puzzle approach to storytelling, especially with the damn!epic. Massive story is massive. Small pieces are small. Frustration level: Climbing . . .
Me and Ruadhan need to kill a bottle of wine together sometime, see if we can't get over the blank spot in the river baroness expansion. I'm hoping to get a 2400 word piece and a 3600 word piece into a pair of 5000s, or if I'm feeling ambitious a pair of 6000s before posting, but I need Ruadhan and Sidonie for it and neither's being particularly cooperative at the moment (with Sidonie this is hardly surprising, as the sequence details some of her final poor planning decisions).
While I'm banging my head on that, there anything you'd really like to see me write? I acknowledge that at least a few of you have trouble narrowing down requests ('but it's ALL shiny!'), but specific requests get filled way, way faster than generic 'yay tae writing!' approaches. =\
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Date: 2009-08-02 04:51 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-08-02 08:35 am (UTC)From:also, I wouldn't mind an outline of what would be the novels for 'some kind of love song'
just saying :)
(or, a more explicit, more detailed bit... you know what I'm talking about...)
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Date: 2009-08-02 04:12 pm (UTC)From:I have a partial outline for the first war, that gets more and more patchy as it progresses through--I know roughly what happens but the details are out of reach without more information from earlier activity. (Which is to say I have a rough grasp on the events of the first book, a patchy grasp on the second, and mostly go flail at the third.)
I have a rough grasp on the first half of the love song (up until they get together), but the second half currently escapes me, so no outlines for j00.
( =| )
If I may
Date: 2009-08-03 12:19 am (UTC)From:You up for science fiction?
Date: 2009-08-03 12:56 am (UTC)From:Re: You up for science fiction?
Date: 2009-08-03 01:15 am (UTC)From:LtLukeCuddy@gmail.com
Re: You up for science fiction?
Date: 2009-08-03 01:30 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-08-02 02:49 pm (UTC)From:Ack, names have slipped
and I'm too lazy right now to go lookGrandmother Shopkeeper Fox getting thoroughly exasperated
Did the former queen mage ever have to teach/tutor anyone?
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Date: 2009-08-02 04:07 pm (UTC)From:*snickers* Alkir/Kiir Lehseet and Phoebe Sabaey, for future reference, and yep--she's who taught Ulysse and Hernén. :) And a few other people, but they're the ones that spring immediately to mind.
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Date: 2009-08-03 10:52 pm (UTC)From:Well that one shouldn't be too hard . . . .
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Date: 2009-08-02 06:04 pm (UTC)From:i wouldn't mind seeing more of him dealing with the trickwood. =)
someone want to hand me a can of dew? there was horror at the empty cases this morning. but first i had a violent attack of "danger will robinson! no go outside!" for no apparent reason (altho it might well have been the barometric pressure dropping that prompted that), and now there's a big ol' thunderstorm, and i dun wanna get wet. *woe*
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Date: 2009-08-02 06:08 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-08-02 06:31 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-08-02 06:34 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-08-02 06:36 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-08-03 01:30 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-08-03 01:31 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-08-03 01:33 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-08-03 10:53 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-08-12 06:06 am (UTC)From:YA stories based on other kinds fo folktales in AUs, in the future...yes??
And many of your stories woudl suit YA just fine.
http://community.livejournal.com/verb_noire/10471.html