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Feb. 10th, 2005 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrissaFinallyfinallyfinally, I have one of my stories for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elisem done. The earrings called "'Oh, yeah?' said the rock sprite." have deserved a story since September, and now they have one, although the story is now called "The Opposite of Pomegranates." It may be a bit...umm...scattery. I guess we'll find out on the readthrough. But it's drafted, and I don't hate it any more, and I'm still glad to be moving back to Thermionic Night in all its wretchedness.
If I'm going to insist that I'm not a short story writer, I should probably stop writing short stories. But somebody gave me my whale who is named "Warded," and so I have to write her my modern Saami whaling story, because why else would I deserve my whale and its corresponding worldlet? And that's on the queue after "Singing Them Back" and "The Calculus Plague"* and the short story component of Someone's birthday present. (Someone's birthday isn't in February or even March, but I'm beginning to think I should put the story on the priority list before then: novels, oof. Also, Someone is not the same as the whale-giving somebody, whose birthday is yet more distant.)***
Elizabeth Hand's Waking the Moon is suffering from two things: one, it's a college fantasy novel (which I love) and is not Tam Lin****; two, it's got two main characters, and one suffers in comparison to the other. I care much more about one than the other. Which makes me nervous, because TN has two main characters, too, and what if people feel like this about my book? Because I feel like this about other people's books often. Eeeeeek.
We can worry about that tomorrow.
*Because I am still a science fiction writer, dammit. Just because fantasy keeps grabbing me, doesn't mean I'm not also a science fiction writer still. Right?**
**I seem to be bigger on footnotes these days. Maybe I should read some Terry Pratchett and get it out of my system. Heh. I borrowed still more books fromporphyrin and dd_b this week already, and I have stuff on my own unread stack. Important stuff. So: not very likely.
***I don't actually have anything to say here, but if I did, would it be more appropriate to use *** or to use ** and have the footnote-on-the-footnote indicated by ***? My thought here is that if you read footnotes at all, you're going to read them in order. But there could be a convention I'm forgetting.
****This after Hand's other book suffered in comparison with The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars. Scribblies. What can you do.
elisem done. The earrings called "'Oh, yeah?' said the rock sprite." have deserved a story since September, and now they have one, although the story is now called "The Opposite of Pomegranates." It may be a bit...umm...scattery. I guess we'll find out on the readthrough. But it's drafted, and I don't hate it any more, and I'm still glad to be moving back to Thermionic Night in all its wretchedness.If I'm going to insist that I'm not a short story writer, I should probably stop writing short stories. But somebody gave me my whale who is named "Warded," and so I have to write her my modern Saami whaling story, because why else would I deserve my whale and its corresponding worldlet? And that's on the queue after "Singing Them Back" and "The Calculus Plague"* and the short story component of Someone's birthday present. (Someone's birthday isn't in February or even March, but I'm beginning to think I should put the story on the priority list before then: novels, oof. Also, Someone is not the same as the whale-giving somebody, whose birthday is yet more distant.)***
Elizabeth Hand's Waking the Moon is suffering from two things: one, it's a college fantasy novel (which I love) and is not Tam Lin****; two, it's got two main characters, and one suffers in comparison to the other. I care much more about one than the other. Which makes me nervous, because TN has two main characters, too, and what if people feel like this about my book? Because I feel like this about other people's books often. Eeeeeek.
We can worry about that tomorrow.
*Because I am still a science fiction writer, dammit. Just because fantasy keeps grabbing me, doesn't mean I'm not also a science fiction writer still. Right?**
**I seem to be bigger on footnotes these days. Maybe I should read some Terry Pratchett and get it out of my system. Heh. I borrowed still more books from
porphyrin and dd_b this week already, and I have stuff on my own unread stack. Important stuff. So: not very likely.***I don't actually have anything to say here, but if I did, would it be more appropriate to use *** or to use ** and have the footnote-on-the-footnote indicated by ***? My thought here is that if you read footnotes at all, you're going to read them in order. But there could be a convention I'm forgetting.
****This after Hand's other book suffered in comparison with The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars. Scribblies. What can you do.
