I'm not hot shit in a wineglass, more curried goat in a paper cup

This post is for anyone in the middle of writing a fic (or many fics!) and it's so we have a chance both to share illustrative snippets and to bitch about how recalcitrant our fics are being.


I only have the one fic going, so you're going to get a sneak preview of the end of Chapters Nine, which eor is proofreading for me right now, and beginning of Chapter Ten (of Swept Away!, for anyone new to reading my journal there's more explainations about what this is at that link, and all the previous chapters) and I would love feedback on this, because I have Phipps doing a personality flip-flop and Tom being remarkably unaware and I wonder if I'm doing romance wrong.

( cut for length and spoilers )

Now the sun is driving it's spikes into my eyes, time to abandon the computer for a while. At least this prompted me to type up the beginning of Chapter Ten which I had on paper. :)

Stolen borrowed from slicesmissus, ( FILL OUT HONESTLY and repost as How I met _____  )

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users.
Bold what you have read,
italicize those you started but couldn't finish, and
strike through what you couldn't stand.
Add an asterisk* to those you've read more than once.
Underline those on your to-read list.

Well, I may also strike those I'm pretty sure I'll never read... and italicize AND strike the ones I couldn't finish because I couldn't stand them, I guess. One variation on the above rules was to italicize the ones you were forced to read for school, which makes more sense to me, so I'm trying to do bold italics on them.

( yes, here I am doing a meme when I'm sure there's other things I should be doing... )

Good lord. "The Hobbit" is on this list which is supposed to be books people keep on their shelves to make people think they're brainy? And the Trilogy isn't?

( My daemon, Aenad... )

(sorry about the lack of LJ cut when I first posted.)

I've gone from moth to hare to wolf. I wonder if people have poked at it or if it'll just change sometimes, anyway.

( my answers on the accent quiz )

When I got up this morning it was light enough in the kitchen that I didn't turn the light on - I think the sun was not up, yet.  It's progressively gotten darker without me noticing because I was looking at the computer and now I want the light on.  I should probably go get my car (two blocks away because of street cleaning last night) before the rain comes lashing down. 

*walk walk walk drive drive*  OK, car now home.  Tea?  Mm, tea. 

*typetty-type*  Hey, I got half my Ivan/Byerly story typed up!  This is the damned thing that kept me up all night, thinking.  And I think it's not great, but neither is it totally horrible, and at least I'm getting it out of my system.  Sent that half off to my betas (thank god for volunteers).  Now must get ready for work. 

I'm a sekrit midnight writer.  A closet writer, Eor says.  Though it was actually a water closet I wrote it in.

the interests collage generator has already been taken down. :(

Via princesslaurene...
( not surprisingly, I, also, am neither male nor female. )
In fact, I score the exact same amount "Either" and "Neither." How odd.

Why do I strongly suspect that almost nobody really thinks in a traditional male or female mode?

( apparently, I'm a Lucy, with a strong showing of Edmund )

Also, I have a bowl of rice with strawberries, canned milk, and honey, and it's really, really good. 

(via beowabbit)

There's at least 1 person on your LiveJournal that wants to date you, play with you or sleep with you. [Yeah, right - I'll suspend my disbelief in gaffer's tape for this one. -Derien]  So lets play........ FRIENDS w/BENEFITS

The rules are simple...

If you want to date the person who posts this send them a msg saying "I want to date you"

[This is a very weirdly written meme.  I'd have written "If you want to date me, comment with 'I want to date you.'" -Derien]

If you want to play with the person who posts this send them a msg saying "I want to play with you" and say if you want to be top or bottom and what activities you want to do.

[And BTW, just because you want something doesn't mean you're going to get it. ;) --Derien]

If you just want to sleep with the person and stay friends, send them a message that says "Let's have sex some time, OK?"

[and I'll keep what beowabbit added: "If you want to literally sleep with me, snuggly but platonic, feel free to let me know that, too, even though it’s not in keeping with the lascivious theme of the meme."]

SCARED??? You ONLY live ONCE!

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(from camwyn) ( And the Doctor I am is... )