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Have to go to town pursuing errands tomorrow morning - but in the interstices of need-to-do things I'm quietly beavering away at book 3 of the trilogy. Yike. Book 3. Hard to imagine I'm there already.

Just watched a bit of TV, a show called Brothers & Sisters, something we more or less just found out about a couple of weeks ago - and there's some good writing in that show. Some GREAT writing. A few bits from this one lodged in my brain, and there is a possibility that a writing-related post will be forthcoming soon related to those bits - but I've got a scene to finish tonight, and errands tomorrow morning, and we'll see how it goes. Watch this space, as it were.

In the meantime, happy February. For a while there this morning, outside definitely smelled like spring - but they're forecasting a real cold night, and outside it's a full moon, that bone-white light that etches black shadows as sharp as the noonday sun's. It's so bright in my bedroom at night that it feels as though I left a light on somewhere. A wolf-night.

Well, just checking in. Back to work, I can crank out another couple of hundred words by bedtime.

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Date: 2007-02-02 01:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] netcrimes.livejournal.com
Happy February right back at you. It's supposed to start snowing today here. Going to run some errands and take Mom2 out for lunch. Hugs to you and Deck!

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Date: 2007-02-02 08:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kaigou.livejournal.com
Hey! First, in case you hadn't seen this: Smart Bitches has a YouTube of Molly Ivins discussing the Texas Sexuality laws. (They're still that whacked, but I think this was made prior to the lawsuit that overturned some of the worst parts.) If you want to hear a series of Austin accents, there you go. Molly talks a bit faster than most Austinites, but she spent a lot of time in DC and elsewhere, but in terms of her colorfulness? That's pretty much how the majority speak around here. "That's the Texas State Legislature," she says, and ain't it the truth.

Second, I asked my main beta-reader and Nitpicky Detail Story Skewering Reader Extraordinaire, who's read all my stuff from start to finish with severe commentary on where I slack, from small to big. She began life in France but ended up in Canada via England; she used to live six blocks from a Marks & Sparks, she said. and never even once had she connected my characters to that store's colloquial name. Much of that, she noted, is because I'd kept "Mark" and "Spark" spaced well apart in any scenes to de-emphasize the rhyme. She had registered that the two are -ark names, but nothing beyond that, and certainly never thought of the store!

I mention that only because sometimes it's fascinating to me how we create associations that to others seem like "hunh, you what?" while to us it's "omg, how can I ignore that?"

I have real trouble reading books where the female protag has my name, for instance, and it's rather bothersome that now my first name seems to be all the rage. And not, I might add, the full version -- like the difference between Elizabeth and Beth or Bethie. My entire life people have assumed my real name is the 'full' version (thinking it's cute or formal or whatever to call me that when it's not my name!) and I've been the oddball for having the diminutive form as my true given name. Now here are all these chicklit protags with the diminutive form as their 'given' name and I find myself grumpy about it for some inexplicable reason, like the authors are latecomers to a trend, and stop stealing my name! *headdesk* Yes, irrational, but there you go.

What's this Brothers & Sisters? I seem to recall hearing about an upcoming show called that (probably read it in a magazine), but lacking TV is really leaving me in the lurch. If it's good writing, though, maybe it's worth finding on DVD... ;-)

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Date: 2007-02-02 11:54 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] anghara.livejournal.com

What's this Brothers & Sisters? I seem to recall hearing about an upcoming show called that (probably read it in a magazine), but lacking TV is really leaving me in the lurch. If it's good writing, though, maybe it's worth finding on DVD... ;-)


EMPHATICALLY yes. I knew nothing about the thing, going in, but got hooked from pretty much the first episode. They have some really good writers - and of course with a cast that includes the likes of Sally Field, Rachel Griffith (and a Rob Lowe who appears to have actually learned to act in the course of his transformation from pretty boy to serious thespian) that job is made commensurately easier. Good stuff.

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