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[derien]

I needed two long rests during yesterday's walk, but I got some writing done on Chapter 9 of Swept Away during those breaks. :) Today I finished up putting the drawstring in the pyjamas (good lord I hope you have a better method than what I devised, littleredhead, because that took me for freaking ever and I kept sewing the drawstring down by accident and having to rip out stitches!), and typed up all of the stuff I've written over the past ... however long it's been. My god. Now it's hanging over poor Eor's head to proofread. And I got up to Chapter 8 posted on my trivial little website - for some reason the project of posting it on my own website had been languishing. (Although the font on Ch 8 needs to be fixed. Tomorrow.) I also had a walk, did a little cleaning (not much), and fooled around with my dulcimer a bit. I tried to tune it, but not really having a musical ear, who knows. And my brother, Hawk called. He's just recently moved in with his gf, which is going... kind of up and down, apparently.

Also I watched the rest of the Hitchhiker's Guide tv show. Love that version. Ford looks so damned young and cute to me, now. :)

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[derien.livejournal.com]

I kind of thought that would be the case, as I think the mountain dulcimer was developed in the U.S., the Appalacian mountains. I don't even know why it has the same name, with such a different structure, but it does sound like fairy music when played right. Maybe it's the combination of strings, such that it gives a similar sound even though it's played differently?

[derien.livejournal.com]

(And I didn't want you to imagine me playing something really difficult. Seriously, what I do cannot be called 'playing' at all.)

I also wanted to thank you for your kind words re Swept Away. I've been poking along so badly on this story that everyone has to go back and re-read whenever I put up a new chapter, and it seems really unfair to put people through that. It must test some people's patience! In this chapter I can promise more physical contact, though I'm wondering if I should have played it up a little more slashy... if you want the sneak preview of the un-betaed chapter I'd be happy to send it along, so you can tell me if I should play up more "Tom's hightened awareness of their bodies touching" or that sort of thing. ;)