I meant to write today

[julian_griffith]

 but there were a million interruptions, and I really NO FOOLING had to get a chapter of billing & coding coursework done, and seriously it just was NOT HAPPENING. Though I might get a bit in after this post.

But I still have exciting writing-related things going on! I sent back the edits on "Your Most Humble and Obedient Servant", the femdom lady

Comments

[devin_wood]

I'm glad you'll be able to keep the British spellings. It's completely appropriate for the story. :D Yay on getting the edits for Turning the Tables done! (I still need to finish mine. Got most done, just need to poke at it some more)

Good luck on everything and try to stay cool!

[julian_griffith]

...maybe I'm weird, but going over my Turning the Tables edits took about an hour, maybe two at most? The most memorable one was where I had to explain that "fall" was not a verb that ought to be changed to "falling", it was a NOUN referring to the way his breeches fastened. :) Most of the rest of it was "okay, fine, you want a comma there, I won't object" and grudgingly breaking up some of my longer run-on sentences in the sex scenes.

[devin_wood]

Mine took a lot of work (though she liked it overall) and my sex scenes were the main culprits (not really a surprise for me). Need more of a plot, too. *pokes story*

[charliecochrane]

Yes. Gray is not grey and honor is not honour. Huzzay for Britspeak!

[lunasariel]

Congrats on keeping the period- and culture-appropriate spellings! Grey and gray are absolutely different colors colours. And kudos on authentic-sounding idioms, etc. - those can be a bitch and a half to write properly, so validation is always nice.

Reading about all the great food you cook always makes me hungry. Luckily, I just made a batch of deviled eggs myself (where do you stand on dusting paprika on top, btw?), but now pasta salad and iced tea may be in my future as well...

[julian_griffith]

Not traditional cayenne. Szeged hot paprika. Accept no substitutes. Well, if you're a real wuss you could use a mild paprika (not smoked!) but hot paprika is exactly the right hot.

[lunasariel]

World-class spice wuss, reporting for duty! :) And I live in a house full of fellow spice wusses, so I tend to leave it off altogether, but I always love tasting other people's approaches. (As long as it's not, y'know, nuclear. But the egg itself nullifies a lot of the hotness, so NBD.)

[stevie_carroll]

Exciting stuff.

[eglantine_br]

I think paprika will always make me think of you-- since you were so kind and helpful when I was ambushed by paprika moths! Good to have someone who can write you to say 'yes that happens.'

And yes, there is a totally different taste to different spellings. Glad you got your way.

[julian_griffith]

Oh yes, the paprika moths! I'm so glad I haven't had to deal with those in about 20 years. And I finally had to give up on the nice-in-theory idea of buying beans and flours etc. in bulk from the "we were hippies before we were yuppies" section of Whole Foods, because however carefully I stored the stuff when I got home, there would ALWAYS be miller moths not long after. *pleh pleh pleh

[eglantine_br]

We had a big chest freezen in our dirt floor Mrs Thorne era cellar. That was where the water pump was, and there was a single light bulb with a long string to turn it on. When I was sent to get things I went down in the dark. There was a little bat who lived next to the light bulb. He wintered there, underground I think

[julian_griffith]

Heh. Mrs. Thorne wouldn't have had a cellar. The water table would have been too high. At least I suspect so. But she'd certainly have used seaweed and ashes on her garden, along with chicken droppings, I bet. And made her own soap.

My mother's best friend lives on what's still classed as a farm. She keeps sheep and goats and when I was younger she kept chickens too. I know that her family drank goats milk and she made butter from it, but she rarely did any gardening that I can remember...then again, we mostly visited in the winter. In the smear they'd visit us at the beach. The main purpose of the stock-keeping was to keep the place taxed at farm rates instead of residential rates. When they moved in, there were bats in the attic.

The house is all remodeled now, not falling down like it was when I was a kid, but she still keeps sheep.