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mrissaTwo acceptances, two rejections. Not bad.
Also, I must have been a very, very good writergirl, because my next book has a peasant uprising in it. I love peasant uprisings. I am just irrationally fond of them. I just have to figure out what Lover #2 does other than being a miller and a baker.* I mean, not that people who bake aren't automatically just plain fascinating, but there's something else. It tickles in the corner of my brain, on the opposite bit from where the librettist and composer live. And the protag doesn't know what it is, but then she doesn't even know about the cook's proto-socialist connections to begin with, so there's no use relying on her for any of this stuff. I will sneak up on it sideways while they're not-fighting** about her departure for the palace and see if it helps.
Oh, oh, there's another body exerting gravitational pull on him. I will sit very quietly and see if I can deduce what it is by the shape of the deformation of his orbit.
Girl. Lab. You know the drill.
*I mean what he does other than being the Orvokki for this book. Not that his name is Orvokki, but that he is the one who is sensible throughout, which no one else is, entirely, although the protag tries a good deal harder than anyone in Thermionic Night and Copper Mountain ever did. (See how casually I called it that? Just like it had been named that all along? I tell you what: if it actually works and Sampo is noticeably better-behaved as Cu Mt., I will tell those of you who are parents, and you can start referring to your adolescents as Morris and Cynthia when they get uppity. Unless you actually did name them Morris and Cynthia, in which case you're on your own.)
**Yes, they have the kind of relationship where they have not-fights. Very quiet, courteous not-fights.
Also, I must have been a very, very good writergirl, because my next book has a peasant uprising in it. I love peasant uprisings. I am just irrationally fond of them. I just have to figure out what Lover #2 does other than being a miller and a baker.* I mean, not that people who bake aren't automatically just plain fascinating, but there's something else. It tickles in the corner of my brain, on the opposite bit from where the librettist and composer live. And the protag doesn't know what it is, but then she doesn't even know about the cook's proto-socialist connections to begin with, so there's no use relying on her for any of this stuff. I will sneak up on it sideways while they're not-fighting** about her departure for the palace and see if it helps.
Oh, oh, there's another body exerting gravitational pull on him. I will sit very quietly and see if I can deduce what it is by the shape of the deformation of his orbit.
Girl. Lab. You know the drill.
*I mean what he does other than being the Orvokki for this book. Not that his name is Orvokki, but that he is the one who is sensible throughout, which no one else is, entirely, although the protag tries a good deal harder than anyone in Thermionic Night and Copper Mountain ever did. (See how casually I called it that? Just like it had been named that all along? I tell you what: if it actually works and Sampo is noticeably better-behaved as Cu Mt., I will tell those of you who are parents, and you can start referring to your adolescents as Morris and Cynthia when they get uppity. Unless you actually did name them Morris and Cynthia, in which case you're on your own.)
**Yes, they have the kind of relationship where they have not-fights. Very quiet, courteous not-fights.
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Date: 2007-01-20 08:21 pm (UTC)::snerk::
My brother's given name is Morris (family thing - we have Morris Maxes and Max Morrises and a Max Moritz and now a William Max). He's called JR, by virtue of being a junior. And man, is he uppity.
And now he's a father. *g* Just desserts are about to be served.
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Date: 2007-01-20 08:47 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-01-20 08:29 pm (UTC)This post is full of examples of things I like about you - or, more accurately, about the impression I have of you from reading your journal. I realize that's not a very midwestern thing to say, but I'm going to stand by it, anyhow.
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Date: 2007-01-20 08:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-20 08:51 pm (UTC)Of course, I grew up in a college town, which significantly negates the geography, but still.
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Date: 2007-01-20 11:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-20 11:17 pm (UTC)Oh, sorry, that was the more general one? Well, see, I can't have the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker in every book I write, and I already had them in my first one.
On the other hand, I haven't done it since. Hmmmmmmmm.
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