GIP + portents of an update

[tocryabout]

Takes a certain amount of ego to design an icon for one's own novel, but fuck it, that's what I post about most often. And the picture was too pretty to pass up [original]. Plaskett in his Thrush Hermit youth, with the flowing blond curls, could have played the perfect Indie!Archangel Gabriel in some Have Not Been the Same CanRock infancy narrative. ((Julie Doiron as the BVM, of course, the ever-chaste Martin Tielli as St Joseph, Bryan Adams as Herod, oh ho ho I am getting way too amused by this))

Chapter 5 should be done before too long. I know I ought to move faster (do not try to dissuade me from this or console me; it's a goal I've set for myself) because I really intend to finish this within the year, and one chapter a month will not get that done so long as I plan for twenty chapters. I'm not stuck: it's a matter of writing instead of obsessively reorganising my iTunes library or farting around in The Sims 2. In other words, discipline, which I like to pronounce in a faux-Classical-Latin manner as dis-KIP-lin-ay. Things may progress faster in the summer.

New X-Men is looking pretty weak. I'm not impressed with the way they've revamped the team, although Kevin's disappearance does bode well for my Evil!Wither hopes. Still, I may be in the market for a new fandom. I'm sniffing around the new Doctor Who since I think David Tennant is rather dishy, for a dude. It will have to wait until I move to the new apt. and have access to a TV, though.

Are there Robin Hobb fen? Do I want to know about them, if so?

Comments

[youngest-one.livejournal.com]

There are probably some fans online, but probably no fanfic communities - she's states several times that she dislikes fanfic, and doesn't want any done about her books.

[to-cry-about.livejournal.com]

I saw that, after cursorily searching on my own. How annoying. Who wouldn't want legions of 13-year-olds writing epic slash mpreg chan noncon drabble fluff about their work?

There is a fitz_is_stupid comm, though, which pleases me. Because he so totally is.

[youngest-one.livejournal.com]

When someone writes a crappy AU of your work with everybody at an American high school, you know you've really arrived.

Why all the Fritz hate? Not having read the books themselves, I'm curious. I'd gotten the impression that he was on the same level as most fantasy heroes, and actually a good deal less whiny then some.

[to-cry-about.livejournal.com]

You should read the books. They are good; I'm rereading them and they do stand the test of time.

Fitz is a deeply frustrating character because he never does what's good for him, which is what makes the books so fraught with suspense and angst (good angst). I dunno if I'd call him whiny, but one of the posters on that comm called him "Pouty McEmopants" which made me bounce with delighted laughter because it's so perfect.

It's a character and a story that can draw you in to the point where you go "OH MY GOD HE IS GETTING A HAIRCUT THIS IS SO EXCITING I HAVE TO LIE DOWN FOR A WHILE OH SHIT NOW HE IS BUYING SHOES MMMPH SPURTING WITH PLEASURE OVER HERE" and damned if I know how she does it, but it's good. Not great literature, but goooood.

Also the canon slashiness between Fitz and the Fool makes me sigh.

[to-cry-about.livejournal.com]

I actually made more than one before sanity took over. I tend to get wrapped up in things peripheral to writing, like worldbuilding (in fantasy), poring over maps and bus schedules, drafting floor plans for houses that don't exist, portraying characters in the Sims, writing extensive medical histories for minor characters, and on and on. About 4% of that work is actually useful.

[feikoi.livejournal.com]

Can't wait for your next update. *prods*

[to-cry-about.livejournal.com]

Aha, hidden readers! One of these days I'm doing a poll to find out who's reading who's not on my friends list, you sneaky bastards...

Consider me prodded.