Chapter 6 of The Heart's Landscape

[tocryabout]

The Name for Its Own Sake, first chapter of the second part, so maybe everyone who was wondering if I'd abandon it will relax now. I'm slow, but I am not faithless, for the names of my readers are written on the palm of my hand. (Anyway, it's only like three weeks since the last update! And I was in the hospital and not writing for one of those weeks, which means I am ON FIRE.)

Words not recognised by OpenOffice's spellcheck:
wasabi
Toyotas (got a problem with the Japanese, OpenOffice?)
headbutt
subarachnoid
MedicAlert
telepath

[Read from the beginning.]

Comments

[hoeyon.livejournal.com]

Very nice, especially about the science and religion and wasabi. Thanks for sharing.

[youngest-one.livejournal.com]

Can I take a few moments to reiterate that I love what you're doing with Paul? The little details about how his mutation affects his life, and how he copes with it, are fascinating.

I was suspicious of Neurocherche from the beginning. Probably because it emphasized letting go, trusting in outside forces that poke about in your brain, and Joel's never really had good luck with that kind of thing. I want to like the young Dr. Gervais, but keep getting a bad feeling about this whole project. A part of me keeps pointing out that a chip in the head would do a great job of keeping track of a mutant like Joel, who'se immune to other types of monitoring. And I keep wondering if this and Department H are connected in any way. The two encounters with telepathy were very creepy and well written.

Hodya and Joel are doomed, aren't they? I mean, long distance relationships are hard enough to manage as it is, and when it's someone like Joel, who has problems with relationships already......His dialogue at the end, when he's promising to give here everything, without really knowing what that is, really rang true. Depressing, but true.

[chalcopyrite.livejournal.com]

Hi! I just found your stories recently -- um, yesterday? -- via brown_betty, and I just wanted to stop by and tell you how much I've been enjoying reading. Thanks!

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

There are wonderful, precise feedbacks above (specifically, red shoes), but they echo what I love about your story. Your characters are incredibly vivid and your language incredibly precise.

I'm trying not to freak out that I will have an evil institute coming up in my fic before long. Oh well, we're both riffing off someone else's property anyway.

You are wise and generous, do you know that?