Chapter 11 of The Heart's Landscape is finished.

[tocryabout]

Chapter 11, A Harsh and Dreadful Thing, is available for your perusal in the usual location. [Read from the beginning.]

It feels good to be alive.

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slow fascist reads fast chapter

[fascist-w-tuba.livejournal.com]

In a weird coincidence-ish thing, I was finally able to read this chapter today. Took me a few pages to get back into the swing of THL, but really, it was thrilling. It's enthralling to watch everyone's conflicting plans and beliefs getting tangled up and thwarted and reshaped. The prose style felt more workaday than usual, but... I can't bring myself to care much when the story is this good. Provocative, troubling, incredibly relatable.

I believe pretty strongly that with WIPs, the author doesn't actually owe anyone any more than is already written--we all knew it was unfinished when we signed up for it--so this isn't a plea for more--you should write what you need to write.

But regardless of what you end up doing with it--finishing it, cannibalizing it, anything--I could see your writing changing people's lives. So glad to read another prickly chapter of this Northern Flowering Cactus.

As for other things, I don't have anything useful to say, but will be offering a rosary for you tomorrow after Mass.

All best & thanks.

Re: slow fascist reads fast chapter

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This comment meant a lot to me, although for some reason I didn't respond right away. I certainly do plan to finish it--I have a number of projects on the go, but this is back on the table and my inspiration's back as well.

Thanks, as always.

Re: slow fascist reads fast chapter

[fascist-w-tuba.livejournal.com]

Whoo!! (I mean, I try to be all philosophical about WIPs, but I want more as much as the next person!)

Also, meant to ask if you've read anything by Octavia Butler. I've only read a bunch of her short stories, but there are things in them I think you'd appreciate.