*mumbles some incoherent swearwords*

[agilebrit]

So, I sent the WerewolfFic off to my (published) Mom for crit last night. She hasn't gotten back to me on it yet, but the lovely and effulgent texanfan said something that clicked with me and makes me go "ARGH."

The focus of the story shifts, midway through, from one character to another...and doesn't ever really shift back. And there are things that happen more as internal dialogue OFFSCREEN that really should get a little more time ONSCREEN. And how the hell I slide that in there, I don't know--especially since most of the thing seems to be people yacking back and forth and a whole lot of not much else. Dramatic tension? We don't need no steenking dramatic tension! Or action, for that matter.

I mean, yes, I wanted to write something a little more fluffy after the CatFeet and Merc&theSnake stories, but I think I might have gone just a leetle too far the other way.

And I still suck at description.

*cries*

Also? I don't have the next "thing" yet. The scope of what I was considering for the "Astrobiology and the Sacred" competition is way beyond 5000 words--it might actually be a novel, fer serious--so that particular one is back-burnered for now...but I don't have anything to replace it with, and I'd really like to enter this thing.

Why the hell did I ever think I was a writer?

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In other news, we went to the zoo yesterday, and I got some great shots of the cats. One of which begged to be iconed. And so I give you this:

Comments

[texanfan.livejournal.com]

Yes, you will! Too bad the are we alone questions are running into too long a story. I can certainly see that that would be a serious problem though.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

It's not the "are we alone" question, it's more the "what would it mean if we weren't--and found a planet where the Fall in Genesis didn't happen because Adam and Eve said, eh, no thanks, to the serpent?" Because the implications of that...holy cow.

So, I just need to figure out--and finish--a different story than that one. Before June 10th or so.

[texanfan.livejournal.com]

Oh! Have you read Perelandra by C.S. Lewis?

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, read the whole series. And need to re-read it, because it's full of win. *eyes stack of books that also need reading* Maybe ten years from now...

[texanfan.livejournal.com]

Cool. :) C.S. Lewis is my favorite author. His take on a world that didn't Fall I thought was incredible but I bet you've got a unique take on it.