writing babble

Because it's been a while. Had wanted to do some Goku birthday fanfic but being so sick put me behind. Poo.

On the other hand, Sorrow's Dark Array is thrilling me. Oh, it doesn't have the most readers ever but the ones who are reading and commenting are making me smile. Why? Because it would have been so easy to say 'yay Ed's back, now have him kick Dev (OC) to the curb' Instead they want to see realistic confrontation between the two. That means a lot. To me it means they actually like the OC. Most of us fan writers know that any more OC automatically mean Mary/Larry Sue whether or not it's true and people won't even read. I'm always thrilled to have someone like my OC's. And to have the reviewers call it realistic means a lot to me.

And FINALLY the original writing is kicking loose again. Usually I don't get much written in the winter. Part of it I think is Nano burn out and then the holidays. But Splinters of Silver and Cold Iron has been working well the last several weeks which is great since I'm almost out of new stuff to give my writer's group. I also got a bit more done on Until the Ice Breaks. I was shocked to have one of my temporarily abandoned novels, Burning Darkness, suddenly kick me in the brain so I looked it up last night. Frankly I thought it was more coherent than this but apparently I hallucinated that. It's all tiny fragments written for nanomowhinging and libraryofwinds and their prompts. Well, it's too rough to be useful but heck it's a first draft so that's expected. Though I think putting it together in coherent form will have to wait until after finals.

Heck I'm even writing the next chapter of Hyperion's Son and I actually LIKE it.

when good days go bad

I mean I survived the weekend laundromat free for all AND got out of Wal-Mart without punching someone (but it was close). I even got home to find a HUGE box of manga I got from www.bookcloseout.com sitting on the porch.

I was all set for a lazy afternoon of grading rough drafts of parasitology papers (one was beautiful. Students like this make you smile) and grading anatomy tests. I got the coffee pot going AND found a marathon of the first year of NCIS which I've never seen. Life was good.

Then I started getting hot and cold and queasy. At first I was blaming a warmish day, sweat shirt, the coffee and the debacle that was the anatomy test. Then I could hardly keep my eyes open and reading was making them hurt. Uh oh.

Then the stomach rebelled and still is. I'm okay so long as I don't even think of feeding it. And the cold was because my temp has dropped to 96.1 hmmm most people run fevers when they're sick. I apparently turn into a reptile.

Gah. Well at least I have the 20th anniversary of Cops! to watch (did you see it silvrethorn) and got to see one of the clips that makes me go 'wow' in awe at the one legged cop who can run down perps. When that first aired years ago it was eye opening to see just what a prosthesis was capable of handling.