wherein Liz defeats her NFE fic and requests a beta

So after weeks of false starts, it turns out that blind deadline panic is still the best way to make me buckle down and actually write stuff. (Hideous colds of death notwithstanding! *blows nose, takes more NyQuil*)

I sent the beta draft in because today is the submission deadline, but I have requested a brief editing extension since the NFE is big on having ever story beta-read and aside from that, I know I make dumb mistakes when I'm in a hurry. (Let us not even get into the mistakes I make when high on cold medicine...)

So. On that note, is anyone who is NOT participating in the Narnia Fic Exchange willing to quickly look over a Chronicles of Narnia fanfic for me? It's between 2,000 and 5,000 words long and requires hardly any canon knowledge to understand.

Please leave contact information in a comment or a private message.

Thank you in advance!

peppers in pots :-)

My peppers, as of Monday afternoon. :-)

The bell pepper seems to have settled on producing three good-sized peppers. A couple of the other tiny proto-peppers have fallen off the plant, and the others are kind of in stasis, neither growing nor dying. Perhaps once I pick the three large ones the others will begin to grow again.

As for the jalapeño, it inched upward maybe another couple centimeters, but seems to have stopped growing taller/bushier and is now concentrating on the all-important business of flowering and producing actualfax peppers. As you can see, the first lone blossom has already become a distinct pepper, while a couple others are shedding their petals to reveal tiny baby peppers. The jalapeño flowers themselves are interestingly different from the bell pepper flowers -- for one thing they face downward rather than sideways, and for another their petals spread into a much wider and flatter array.



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