and so and so and so...

Via mevennen, hee (and awesome!): http://www.emergencytea.co.uk/base.htm
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Sula has a bright green bandage wrapped around one leg and we're waiting for the results of her very expensive, so painful she had to be put under, test. Hoping for fungal infection in her bones. Cause that's the best option.
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It's a good thing I'm not officially doing NaNoWriMo because I don't like writing under pressure; when my back brain says, I need to take a little while to mull this over, it is, for me, generally best to listen to it. Otherwise I end up having to backtrack and do things over to get back on the right path. And I'd rather enjoy writing than just get it done.

I'm still aiming to finish a draft of Deep Terrain this month, but between dayjobbery and Sula stuff, it might only get part way there. And that's fine, because the push will have moved things along. The novel will get done.
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I liked the tag quote from last night's Criminal Minds a lot (I may get this slightly off a word or two, but this is the gist): It is better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Of course, ideally, one likes to be writing for oneself and engaging, entertaining, and rewarding some portion of the reading public as well. 



 

mashups

Had a nice email from an English prof at U of Maine who's teaching "When the Ice Goes Out," my story in the Otherworldly Maine antho, and he wanted to know if the story was based on any tales I'd actually heard about Cathance Lake, where it's set. I know there's plenty of stories about Maine lakes--they're very haunted feeling--but, as I explained to him, in that story I imported the Russian folkloric figure of the rusalka to Maine, to a lake I'd lived by, and re-interpreted it for the culture and setting.
 
In any case, it's very gratifying to know your work is being read and discussed.