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nightdog_barksSunny and warm, but no more 100-degree days. :D
New fic going up for First Readers today. I know I've been talking about stories, and folks haven't seen them yet -- it's just that one fic (that 9K-word thing) (that nobody's seen yet, except for the First Readers) led to a prequel, and then that led to another prequel, so. I think we've got everything together now. Um. Sorry? ♥
So. Here we go. :-)
ETA that the Man Booker shortlist is out. As I had suspected, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry isn't on it, but Will Self's Umbrella is.
Umbrella, the story of a victim of the sleeping sickness epidemic at the end of the first world war, is a 400-page book without paragraphs or breaks or chapter divisions.
... O_o
New fic going up for First Readers today. I know I've been talking about stories, and folks haven't seen them yet -- it's just that one fic (that 9K-word thing) (that nobody's seen yet, except for the First Readers) led to a prequel, and then that led to another prequel, so. I think we've got everything together now. Um. Sorry? ♥
So. Here we go. :-)
ETA that the Man Booker shortlist is out. As I had suspected, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry isn't on it, but Will Self's Umbrella is.
Umbrella, the story of a victim of the sleeping sickness epidemic at the end of the first world war, is a 400-page book without paragraphs or breaks or chapter divisions.
... O_o
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Date: 2012-09-11 07:26 pm (UTC)Today was supposedly the last over-90 day for the summer here, which is lucky because school officially begins tomorrow.
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Date: 2012-09-11 07:34 pm (UTC)We are still having a few 90+ degree days, but it's cooling down into the 60s at night, so that works for me. *g*
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Date: 2012-09-11 07:55 pm (UTC)Oh, and of course it's even better to have a third_owl collaboration and see that the old collective is rallying up. If I had any time to spare I'd read again Distress call just to celebrate (I think I've read it three times so far).
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Date: 2012-09-11 08:03 pm (UTC)♥ ♥ ♥ and *hugs*
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Date: 2012-09-11 08:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-11 09:06 pm (UTC)That one was seriously on my radar, and now? I don't know. What do you want to bet the dialogue doesn't have quotation marks either?
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Date: 2012-09-12 01:35 am (UTC):-D
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Date: 2012-09-12 05:32 am (UTC)I am so adept at it, in fact, that people occasionally suspect me of being a genetically altered lab mouse bent on world domination.
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Date: 2012-09-12 02:58 am (UTC)Is this one of those the-emperor-has-no-clothes things where everyone assumes it's brilliant because they can't understand it?
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Date: 2012-09-12 03:08 am (UTC)It's just. 400 pages of wall-of-text. That's ... a lot of text.