stuff. woo.
Apr. 3rd, 2004 09:31 pmI've decided to give up on revising "Wearing Thin," at least for the moment. I'm just not in the right mental place to go through it and retune the emotional tone of the piece, which is what I need to do. Bah.
I'm sending "Sir Ron and the Green Knight" to beta, though, as I feel it needs much less revision... mostly a Brit-pick and a ramble-check. Plus Ron and Hermione voice checks, since she narrates and he's the main character. I already got Cat (or Quetzle, her beta-reading alter ego) to fix up Fleur's French phrases for me, since there was no way on earth I was going to try writing a JKR-esque French accent.
I've been poking through some of my old files lately, and am wondering whether I should post a few of my old original stories up here. Any opinions? I have this nice semi-skewed, semi-modernized backwards fairy-tale to start with...
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I'm avoiding my parents' phone calls, yet they won't take the message and lay off. I did the family thing last week, I don't want to talk right now, and I DID email them. Isn't that enough?
Nobody lets me be antisocial in peace since I had my big downward spiral two years ago. And while the concern is nice -- and, yes, sometimes-to-often justified -- there are times I really get sick of people looking over my shoulder and just want to be alone for a while. *sigh* Such are the perils of introversion. And depression. And an overdeveloped guilt complex, self-destructive tendencies, and bad time management.
Bah. Now I'm feeling all woe-is-me, and I hate that. No whining! I am a talented, capable person, and I have friends and family who care about me. This is a good thing. And I've even been vaguely productive today, what with finally doing final edits on a poem from a couple years back, and laying out better groundwork for one of my original stories.
So there.
I'm sending "Sir Ron and the Green Knight" to beta, though, as I feel it needs much less revision... mostly a Brit-pick and a ramble-check. Plus Ron and Hermione voice checks, since she narrates and he's the main character. I already got Cat (or Quetzle, her beta-reading alter ego) to fix up Fleur's French phrases for me, since there was no way on earth I was going to try writing a JKR-esque French accent.
I've been poking through some of my old files lately, and am wondering whether I should post a few of my old original stories up here. Any opinions? I have this nice semi-skewed, semi-modernized backwards fairy-tale to start with...
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I'm avoiding my parents' phone calls, yet they won't take the message and lay off. I did the family thing last week, I don't want to talk right now, and I DID email them. Isn't that enough?
Nobody lets me be antisocial in peace since I had my big downward spiral two years ago. And while the concern is nice -- and, yes, sometimes-to-often justified -- there are times I really get sick of people looking over my shoulder and just want to be alone for a while. *sigh* Such are the perils of introversion. And depression. And an overdeveloped guilt complex, self-destructive tendencies, and bad time management.
Bah. Now I'm feeling all woe-is-me, and I hate that. No whining! I am a talented, capable person, and I have friends and family who care about me. This is a good thing. And I've even been vaguely productive today, what with finally doing final edits on a poem from a couple years back, and laying out better groundwork for one of my original stories.
So there.