fannish stuff and thingy

You have seen Old Spice Grover, haven't you? HAVEN'T YOU? ("I am on a horse!" "Moo." "...Cow.")

Search "smell like a monster" on YouTube!

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I'm not sure when (if?) Astonishing Persistence: Future Indefinite will be finished. There are about 6-10K of words still to write in interludes in the middle of the story and...I've just got it stuck in my head that the story isn't good enough. My betas are wonderful, encouraging people who've told me otherwise, but I can't turn off the little critic in my head that disagrees with them.

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Apparently there is a Bedchel Test Fic-A-Thon which sounds awesome of awesomes except that I have too many things going already and I learned my lesson from the winter months of Three Big Bangs And A Tielan Funeral and will never sign up for that much stuff again. But I know folks on my f-list will be interested!

Also, have you signed up for sga_santa? (Can you still do so?)

There was something else I was going to pimp. Oh, for the John/Teyla fans, sga_beya is running...a lot of little bits and pieces - discussions and fic challenges and Christmas secret santa thingies. I'm too busy to keep up, I'm afraid, but it's a good place to go and dabble a bit in John/Teyla fandom.

novels, Old Spice Sesame Street, novel-writing

I've started on the first of the Alexia Tarabotti novels, Soulless, by Gail Carriger.

Anyone read these? Supernatural Steampunk Romance, and quite enjoyable so far. Maybe it just hits my kinks. Admittedly, she's a little too competent, practical, and absent 'soul' - (think 'lacking sensibility' in the old Jane Austen way of Sense and Sensibility where Elinor has too much sense, and Marianne has too much sensibility) when compared with the rest of the female cast, although Carriger has done a pretty good job of incorporating gender prejudices of the time into the society. And she has a lightly humourous turn of phrase, which adds to the entertaining style of her writing.

She does cross one of my 'lines of annoying' which is that she doesn't keep the differing POVs separate from each other. One minute you're in the heroine's head, the next you're in the male love interest's head.

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You have seen Old Spice Grover, haven't you? HAVEN'T YOU? ("I am on a horse!" "Moo." "...Cow.")

Search "smell like a monster" on YouTube.

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I'm going to have to start my Alt Earth novel ahead of NaNo, because I won't otherwise reach the 80K word minimum before December, let alone have time for rewriting/editing. The plot is still in progress: I know what has to happen, but not how. And I'm terribly afraid it'll turn out cliche and predictable and, well, bad. Or, at least, mediocre. Which really is worse than just being 'bad'.

I'll be using the Writer's Workshop tips I got from Michael Stackpole and Aaron Allston last year at D*C to get this plot moving.

"Help me, Michael Stackpole, you're my only hope..."

annoying co-worker!

Dear co-worker,

I know what I'm doing. I really really do. You don't have to interrupt my conversations with other people to make sure I'm doing the right thing.

Really.

I may not be totally on the ball, sharp as a tack, and poised to leap, sir, leap into action, but DAMMIT I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING! And I don't appreciate being instructed on how to do things that I already know how to do, especially when I haven't asked for your input.

extremely disgruntled,
S.