Well, that's different.

[mrissa]

I have written the last chapter of The True Tale of Carter Hall. For those of you new here, that doesn't mean I have a complete draft -- I write out of order. But I'm done with the very ending.

It might change in revisions, but right now the last word is "hotdish."

This pleases me.

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks. But one chapter doesn't feel like a heck of a lot in the great scheme of things; we'll see about another yet today. Janet meets the Wild Hunt on their snowmobiles, probably.

[mightyjesse.livejournal.com]

"hotdish" is such a pecular-ly upper-midwest turn of phrase. I know what it means, certainly, as it's not particularly obscure or odd, but I've NEVER heard it in any other part of the country.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yah, it's all us. But this book is veryvery Minnesotan, so it's okay.

Icon love, by the way.

[mightyjesse.livejournal.com]

Yeah... The hardest part was NOT getting Maggie to wear a "string toupe". It was getting her to wear a string toupe while standing still enough NOT to be a thrilled-to-be-helping doofusy blur on my crappy-phone-cam. Jasmine was easy as she ALWAYS looks exasperated by Maggie's antics. My Internal Dog Dialog was something like this:

Maggie: WHEEEEEHOOO! MOM'S HOME FROM WORK! YAY! WE CAN HELP HER WITH STRING!
Jasmine: Liz... About the crack you feed that other dog? We need to chat.
Me: Here Maggie, put this on your head.
Maggie: STRINGSTRINGSTRING! w00t! WHEEEEEEEEEEEE! *prancing around in a circle in a string toupe until it falls off. Patiently stands still so I can put it back on. Continues prancing in a circle until it falls off again."
Jasmine: Dad. About the crack Liz is putting in her own food...

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Sometimes the overwhelming good sense of the canine members of the household is hilarious.

[joeboo-k.livejournal.com]

Had you not already said this, I would have commented with "Very Minnesotan of you".

But, I won't.

[ex-kaz-maho.livejournal.com]

I recently wrote the final chapter of one of WIPs - way before the whole draft is done - and I never write out of order. It just came to me so I had to get it down!

The funny thing is, as I was doing it I thought: mrissa on LJ writes out of order, so it must be okay. ;)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Wiktory! One of us, one of us!

Seriously, I am of the "do it if it works" school of thought, so I hope this works well for you.

[ex-kaz-maho.livejournal.com]

Hee!

Seems okay so far. I had to put it aside to do revisions on something else, but I can't wait to get back to it. Good luck with yours!

[tournevis.livejournal.com]

*waits patiently*

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Do you want to read the short story out of this set that On Spec decided not to buy, while you're waiting? If so, send a note to my gmail, which is marissalingen.

[tournevis.livejournal.com]

You have been PM-ed.

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

me too! :) if i haven't already.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You have, silly tk. :)

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

oh good. :) although, not good that it wasn't accepted, rr.

[pmrabble.livejournal.com]

Confused...you ended a story at a Lutheran potluck supper? (g,d,r)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You think you're joking, but you're not too far off!

[pmrabble.livejournal.com]

Yikes!!!

[elisem.livejournal.com]

That is so cool.

(I should really finish the story that has the Minnesota Tarot in it some time. Coffee cups, pointy things, food on a stick, and hot dishes....)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh, do. (In your spare time, I know.)

[aliseadae]

That is an excellent last word.

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

HOTDISH!

[hbevert.livejournal.com]

Why does it fail to surprise me that a Minnesotan author would be pleased by ending a tale with the word hotdish? When you are able to pull off ending a chapter with this all-so-hallowed word, you deserve to be able to eat a hotdish ASAP.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Modern Minnesotan: I had sushi instead. :)

*** SPOILER ALERT ***

[jymdyer.livejournal.com]

=v= No LJ cut? Now the whole book is ruined.

Re: *** SPOILER ALERT ***

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I know, it could have been "bars" instead!