| Blast from the past |
[Jul. 1st, 2009|01:56 pm] |
Kim showed up yesterday. I thought she was in an entirely different state, and hadn't expected to see her. Hadn't expected to see her ever again in my life, if I was lucky. It's been years. As she departed, she made one of those "we should get together and go to dinner" comments. Let's all hope that she didn't mean it. Because, no.
Have you ever run into one of your exes after the break-up? How did it go? |
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| Updating the updated update's update |
[Jun. 29th, 2009|02:40 pm] |
I've updated ITL.
I've also posted a short story. I wrote it about two years ago, and I've been saving it for a short story collection, but I don't have enough short stories to make a collection, and I haven't had time to write more, so, of the few I have, I thought that you might like to take a look at that one. (Yes, offering you erotica is my way of apologizing.)
I never meant to make y'all worry. I meant to take a day off, but then there was the storm puppy-water-modem incident, and I ended up being off-line for longer than expected.
Since the question arose: in the event of an emergency, if something horrible and unexpected (like, for example, death) happens to me, Diamond will be notified, and she'll let you know. She has access to/passwords to pretty much everything, so she'll be able to update the site, post here, etc. She did warn me that if I die or something, she may be too busy mourning to update in the first five minutes, but she'll eventually wipe the tears from her soggy keyboard and make sure that you aren't all left wondering where I went.
Now we get to why I needed to take a day off in the first place.
You guys know that when I'm a fan of something, I'm not just kind of into it. I get invested. I haven't written roughly 30 gazillion words about the Backstreet Boys because I think one of them is kind of hot. It isn't a fad and it isn't just for fun. I genuinely love the Backstreet Boys as a group and as individuals, and a lot of those stories are me fumbling through ways to express that love.
But before the Backstreet Boys, before K-pop and *NSYNC and anyone else, before all of it, there was Michael. I've loved Michael Jackson for, by now, pretty much all of my life. A lot of people don't know that about me, just like a lot of people who know me in real life don't know about Backstreet. Because when something means this much to me, I don't talk about it.
Which is why I wasn't going to explain here why I needed a day off. I just meant to take a day, get myself together, post, and then go off to grieve some more. It turned into more than one day, and I'm sure that if the storm puppy understood what he's done, he'd feel apologetic.
Yes, my dog ate my homework.
(I was going to talk about Michael further, but I'm still grieving, and I can't. Let me just ask that if you can't respect Michael, at least please respect me, and don't use my blog as your dumping ground. Comments that are less than supportive will be deleted.) |
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| Update |
[Jun. 29th, 2009|10:48 am] |
Hi! Sorry about that. I needed to take a day for personal reasons I'll explain later. Then the storm puppy spilled water on the modem, and I was off-line entirely. But I'm back on-line, and I should be able to post today.
Apologies to everyone who's impatient about ITL, and apologies to everyone who worried about me. |
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| Update |
[Jun. 27th, 2009|03:54 am] |
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Again, I'm sorry for being late with this week's ITL update. I'll get myself together and try to have it up soon. Thank you for your patience. |
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| Posting |
[Jun. 25th, 2009|07:35 pm] |
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I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but ITL will probably be late this week. |
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| "In This Land" |
[Jun. 24th, 2009|02:02 pm] |
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Remin. Is he helping? Interfering? Enabling? Being a good ruler? Being a cialex? |
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| Infestation |
[Jun. 23rd, 2009|04:26 pm] |
There's a big ol' wasp in here. I lost track of it, but it's in the room with me. Lurking. Biding its time until its next attack.
As I arm myself with the fly swatter, wish me well. |
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| "In This Land" |
[Jun. 19th, 2009|09:24 pm] |
Should be able to post soon.
After you read, come back here to talk about Xio Voe's letter. Or Anikira's sex scene. Or how much you'd like to spank Nasomi. Or whatever else you want to bring up.
I wish you all a good weekend. |
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| Fingers crossed |
[Jun. 16th, 2009|06:52 pm] |
The air conditioner has been broken for weeks. It hasn't worked all summer. The landlord said that it was being fixed, but whatever the repair folks did hasn't worked.
Called the landlord about the air conditioning today. He said that he'd call the repair folks and send them out again. I'm starting to look into finding somewhere else to sleep for a night or two. I could put myself through it if I had to, but the storm puppy can't take it. |
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| Current events |
[Jun. 14th, 2009|05:03 pm] |
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The Penguins just won the Stanley Cup again? |
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| Open thread |
[Jun. 7th, 2009|04:33 pm] |
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Open thread to discuss Bade and Vade. Go! |
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| Feedback |
[Jun. 6th, 2009|06:35 pm] |
I just received some feedback that I'm responding to here, because I've fielded similar questions before. Maybe this will help the lurkers who wonder but haven't asked.
I'm actually curious... With the amount of details you write about when it comes to philosophy, politics, law, religion and the like, have you studied a lot of it yourself?
Not at all. It's a fantastic compliment, thank you! But, no, I haven't studied any of those things. I've read a lot, but I read almost entirely fiction. I basically regurgitate and extrapolate on regular, human, lived experience.
I've repeatedly been accused of having majored in psychology, which is also a terrific compliment. Some of what I manage to get right, I get right because I've read a lot. But the rest of it comes down to: I'm a person writing about people. What do I understand better than people? I am one! If I were writing about insect life in the tundra, I'd have to learn and study and confer with experts. But the lived human experience, we all know how that goes. We all recognize when dialogue sounds awkward and clunky, because we spend our lives communicating with other people.
I may not be Queen Anikira, a beautiful Anorian woman married to the living god among us, but I can empathize with her. She loves her husband, she wants everything to look good when the in-laws come to visit, she's a friend to her pack of strong-willed brothers but she puts her foot down when she has to. How very foreign is that experience, to any of us? We know what it's like to love someone, to want to impress someone, to have friends, to have to be firm.
But, on the topics of religion and politics and such, that's 50% creativity and 50% the fact that I'm opinionated. ITL has given me the opportunity to explore (and jump on my soapbox from time to time), and I'm going for it.
I'm also curious about your future plans for later volumes of books for the series. I know you're calling the first two volumes "The Purple Book". Are you planning on having later volumes be the other colors of the brothers or are you staying with purple?
The first five print volumes of ITL are The Purple Book because they cover Bade and Orinakin's story. The next volumes are what we're in now, The Rainbow Book. When Kudorin and Xio Voe's story reaches its happy ending, we'll move into the next book. For example, if Talin's story were next, we'd segue from The Rainbow Book to The Red Book.
Thanks for reading! |
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| Questions |
[Jun. 6th, 2009|03:40 pm] |
Questions, after reading the recent update of "In This Land."
Where does Anosanim keep hiding Talin's work?
Should Kudorin have interfered to prevent this from happening?
When was the last time someone dared to hush Heir Voe?
Will the third time be the charm, or is this it for Talin and Hitari?
Is ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lilacmajestyvpm still speaking to me? |
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