Meme: grotty old juvenalia

Really am expecting the next chapter to be done tonight. For serious.

I couldn't resist this meme, though, since the_red_shoes and I apparently both had fixations on Alexander the Great.

( written in 2001 )

I was in a phase where I thought it was better to just avoid the point rather than risk being unsubtle.

Chapter 4 of The Heart's Landscape completed.

"The Ring of Gyges", voilà. Features a much-overhauled Snowbird (no, I am not writing a blond-haired Inuit demigoddess, actually), opera, status epilepticus, and a fucking soulpatch.

[Read from the beginning]

I'm hella glad to get this one done. For some reason it was absolutely exhausting.


P.S. In reading this entry on reader entitlement (linked on metafandom), I'm a little shocked at how many people have blanket "no WIPs" policies. I understand how frustrating it is to start reading and have someone stop writing, but still, I find WIPs and serials to be the most entertaining part of online fandom. I like the soapiness of following a story as it unfolds, rather than bingeing on it all at once. More to the point (for me), I like writing that way -- there is no accountability like other readers and the instant gratification of feedback. I doubt I'd have finished Aphanes if I hadn't been posting it chapter-by-chapter.

Anyway, a little discouraging to see that so many people are probably skipping my stuff out of hand because it's not finished yet.