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Nov. 27th, 2002 02:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI've been reading a bit lately, and I've been bad. I've got a pile of informational stuff from the obstetrician that I ought to be looking at, but I've been reading for fun instead. I just finished Neil Gaiman's Coraline. It was simpler than I expected (I don't know why I expected otherwise) but quite good. I don't think I'd give it to a very young child, but I expect that most children capable of reading the words should be able to handle the plot. Some bits might be a little scary, but...
Yesterday, I finished Jan Siegel's The Witch Queen. I bought the Science Fiction Book Club's three-in-one of the trilogy because I didn't own a copy of The Dragon Charmer either (LunarGeography now has my old copy of Prospero's Children). I worked my way through the book a little more slowly than I expected (I kept falling asleep which wasn't a reflection on the book). There was a reasonable conclusion to the series, not one that I liked all that much because it's the sort of thing that usually annoys me, but one that made sense given the characters and situations. It wasn't particularly unhappy either.
A few days before that, I finished Rosamunde Pilcher's The Shell Seekers. I keep forgetting how much I enjoy her novels. I suspect that that's at least partly because I can't define what it is that I like about them or even explain what they're about. Remembering is important because I've still got a few of her novels on my yet-to-be-read shelf. I want to think of them the next time I'm searching desperately for something to read.
Sometime during all of this, I finished rewriting the first section of my fic. Leah didn't have a lot of comments (I was a little disappointed in that, I must admit, but I think that's more ego than anything else), but a couple of her comments pointed me at things that definitely needed work. Sunday evening, I sent a plain text version of the thing off to a yaoi fanfic contest that I'd found online. I wasn't sure if they'd take it since it's part of a larger and unfinished work, but they agree with me that part one can reasonably stand on its own, so they accepted it. I'm scared to death to actually have the thing out there, but... I'm also pleased to have something out there for people to see.
My next step is to work with Scott to get my planned fanfic website set up. I'm hoping that we can work on that tomorrow before we head for the family dinner. He says it won't take much work, and I'm trusting him on that. I hope eventually to have more than one story there, and we're going to offer space to LunarGeography since she had a story disappear when fanfiction.net cut all NC-17 stuff.
I've already prepared my contribution to the Thanksgiving gathering we're going to tomorrow. It's a bean salad made according to my mother's recipe. Our hostess, my sister-in-law's mother-in-law, really likes it and even asked me for the recipe, so I figured it was something safe to offer to bring. It's going to be a strange gathering from my point of view since neither Scott nor I are really related to the couple hosting. I think that this is a compromise so that both sets of grandparents can spend Thanksgiving with our niece and nephew.
And now I'd better go run some errands. I've been stalling all afternoon.k
Yesterday, I finished Jan Siegel's The Witch Queen. I bought the Science Fiction Book Club's three-in-one of the trilogy because I didn't own a copy of The Dragon Charmer either (LunarGeography now has my old copy of Prospero's Children). I worked my way through the book a little more slowly than I expected (I kept falling asleep which wasn't a reflection on the book). There was a reasonable conclusion to the series, not one that I liked all that much because it's the sort of thing that usually annoys me, but one that made sense given the characters and situations. It wasn't particularly unhappy either.
A few days before that, I finished Rosamunde Pilcher's The Shell Seekers. I keep forgetting how much I enjoy her novels. I suspect that that's at least partly because I can't define what it is that I like about them or even explain what they're about. Remembering is important because I've still got a few of her novels on my yet-to-be-read shelf. I want to think of them the next time I'm searching desperately for something to read.
Sometime during all of this, I finished rewriting the first section of my fic. Leah didn't have a lot of comments (I was a little disappointed in that, I must admit, but I think that's more ego than anything else), but a couple of her comments pointed me at things that definitely needed work. Sunday evening, I sent a plain text version of the thing off to a yaoi fanfic contest that I'd found online. I wasn't sure if they'd take it since it's part of a larger and unfinished work, but they agree with me that part one can reasonably stand on its own, so they accepted it. I'm scared to death to actually have the thing out there, but... I'm also pleased to have something out there for people to see.
My next step is to work with Scott to get my planned fanfic website set up. I'm hoping that we can work on that tomorrow before we head for the family dinner. He says it won't take much work, and I'm trusting him on that. I hope eventually to have more than one story there, and we're going to offer space to LunarGeography since she had a story disappear when fanfiction.net cut all NC-17 stuff.
I've already prepared my contribution to the Thanksgiving gathering we're going to tomorrow. It's a bean salad made according to my mother's recipe. Our hostess, my sister-in-law's mother-in-law, really likes it and even asked me for the recipe, so I figured it was something safe to offer to bring. It's going to be a strange gathering from my point of view since neither Scott nor I are really related to the couple hosting. I think that this is a compromise so that both sets of grandparents can spend Thanksgiving with our niece and nephew.
And now I'd better go run some errands. I've been stalling all afternoon.k
