Popping in to wish everyone a very, very Happy New Year with all the wonderful things that life can bring. It won't be all sunshine and roses, but I hope the good will far outweigh the bad in 2009.

And many thanks to spikeskat , spikesdeb  and all those involved with the Rogue Poet Awards! Most especially, thank you to the lovely person who nominated Mortgage Crisis. ( Read more... )

I’m on vacation right now, so I finally sat down and fleshed out descriptions a bit, per some most excellent advice from the ever-fabulous pennydrdful . (Many thanks, lady, for  your insightful and always spot-on beta work.) Still not as much as I should, but I want to get this chapter of Marking Time posted before the year ends, darn it.

Hoped to have it up ( Read more... )

Haven't posted the promised chapter of Marking Time yet because my beta, the very excellent pennydrdful , pointed out that it really could use more fleshing out of the characters' surroundings, etc. I have a terrible tendency to be very lazy about that sort of thing. Truth is, I'd probably make a better screenwriter than novelist. Heh.

I've had to work the ( Read more... )

Just a heads up for those who have been patiently waiting for another update of this WIP. I looked at the current chapter again yesterday and realized it was way too long. So I found a natural ending point and wrote the missing opening and now it's almost ready to post. I just want to let it marinate a day or so, then read back over it when I'm not ( Read more... )

As usual, I didn't mean to stay away for so long, especially without having replied yet to the vast majority of very kind comments from the latest round of seasonal_spuffy . Time just seems to get away. I've been around off and on, but something happened that I don't want to dwell on any more than I already have. Which has been quite a lot. Basically, I had been ( Read more... )

Back with the completed version of my third and final seasonal_spuffy ficlet. I’m putting up a link so you lovely readers who aren’t on my flist can find your way here. Haven’t yet responded to the very generous comments for this round’s offerings, but keeping fingers crossed for tonight or tomorrow. (Sorry. Almost every time I give a time, it ( Read more... )

::gloms onto LJ::

I've been without Internet for what seems like forever. You know how you can have something and for whatever reasons hardly ever use it, but then the moment you don't have it anymore that's practically all you can think about doing? That's been me.

Unfortunately, my work schedule and the cable repair schedules weren't mixy and ( Read more... )

Don’t be like shocked or anything, but I squeezed out some writing time and came up with another chapter of Marking Time. I know! What’s up with that?! Three chapters posted in barely over a month? You’d think we were actually getting somewhere. Heh.

And just guesstimating? I’d say it will take about 4 more chapters or so to wrap things up. Not ( Read more... )

I just saw a news report about Tim Russert's sudden and unexpected death. That is a loss that is deeply felt. I grieve for his family, his friends, his profession and us.

And only four Cylons in the fleet, as D’Anna stressed, does that mean the fifth one is already on the base ship? Assuming that’s the case, I guess that would make Helo, Baltar and Roslin the most likely candidates. Unless there’s someone else I’m missing.

Helo seems the obvious choice. A little too obvious?

And D’Anna was awfully concerned about ( Read more... )