Unfortunately, when I posted this on there n back, I'd made a mistake, having written that Finduilas wanted to spend time with her youngest son.  Fortunately, my continuity expert Denise warned me of the error.  This takes place sometime after the end of Ultimatums.

Finduilas stuffed the scrap of  parchment into the bottle.  Boromir watched intently ( Read more... )

Fluff written in response to the Day One "bottle" prompt for the there n back LOTR writing community's 2008 Advent Calendar challenge:

“Priinncce Elllllphir!  Where are you?” trilled a light feminine voice.  “Prince Erchirion!  Are you out here?  You promised you’d get me a drink!” exclaimed another in petulant tones.

“Valar!  The Pack are out in ( Read more... )

Between the sinus problems, the lack of job problems, the computer problems, the muse problems (she got mugged by the Brandmir and Hethlin muses, who are clamoring for their say), it just isn't going to happen.  Worse than last year, even.  However, on the positive side I am thinking about the things I should be doing on this story-a comprehensive ( Read more... )

Got my scrapie tags at last.  For those not interested in things agricultural, they're now required by the Dept. of Agriculture when you take your sheep to market.  I had my premises registered and now I've got official tags.  Go me.  Sort of the first step towards the RFID chipping USDA wants to do.  They're trying to pass a law making it ( Read more... )

Those of you English folks are no doubt aware of the low-budget prequel to LOTR that's filming over in your neck of the woods:

http://www.bornofhope.com/index.html

I like the look of the photos so far, aside from the one casting incongruence that has Aragorn's mother looking like Eowyn's.  Little Aragorn is adorable!  The writer/director of the piece ( Read more... )

Well, after several false starts, I finally made some ballet-type shoes for the dolly.  The second to last hurdle completed.  The last hurdle will be wings.

I'd originally envisaged some little lace-up boot things.  Hope suggested using a last.  She'd constructed lasts to make the boots for my Victorian girl, but this dolly's feet are slightly ( Read more... )

I suppose I can still pull it out.  This fantasy/romance/adventure story thingy is just not cooperating.  But I'll keep plugging along-I like my characters.  A lot, actually.  Even if most of them are E.W.'s and she's lending them to me.  A friend IM'd me yesterday to ask if I was doing NaNo and to announce that she had 26,000 words already "..and ( Read more... )

Ah well, NaNo may be a bust this year, unless I hit a 10,000 word lick very soon.  The mess that is my house is impinging upon my muse, as well as the fact that my dolly muse has locked my writing muse in the closet ( Read more... )

Didn't have my usual Cthulhu RPG game yesterday, the Evil One (our gamemaster) wasn't feeling well.  This particular camgaign has been going on for, gee, I think 15 years now, and my own participation has been 14 years long.  I still have some of my original characters.  Those who know anything about roleplaying in general, and Call of Cthulhu in ( Read more... )

I'd intended to finally post on this journal yesterday, it being the first of the month, therefore being tidy and all that, but it didn't happen because I was busy with more important things like nicking some of my son's totally outrageous take of Halloween candy, reading fanfiction, and trying to cudgel my original fiction muse into NaNoWriMo mode ( Read more... )