lenora_rose | Five things make a post.

1) One thing about that last post, with all the music. I decided a while ago that the Trial of Lancelot is a particularly good piece for writers to study for brevity and character. Six verses. Seven people. A complete story. Each of them is sketched as far as they need to be to make the story happen, there are no wasted words. Even Lancelot's almost repeating answers have different moods and depths; sympathetic to Tristan, almost chastizing to Gawain, and admitting his failings to his accusors.

2) From my post before *that*, Justine Larbalestier was successful in getting her wildly unrepresentative cover changed. So there's one strike against whitewashing. Hurrah!

3) Healing takes too too damn long. While I've been careful since one setback during our Quad War trip (I went swimming prematurely) I started to think I was getting well. And frustrated. So Colin and I thought it was appropriate to risk some non-penetrative play. Grr. Apparently any form of female orgasm is enough to restart light cramps and a little blood.

4) I've seen no few shout-outs in fiction, ranging from overly cutesy and annoying to cool (I've occasionally tried out bands characters discuss.) But usually shout-outs are one or two conversations. I seem to have a full scene which is shout-out to the meta of a fandom. In which Beto gets inundated with frogs in honour of the episode of the same name. (Well, I needed a tv show for the MC and her boss to be working on... although they couldn't get Camryn Kaufmann in that universe.)

5) To my great astonishment, my computer decided yesterday to prove definitively that it belongs to a fantasy author. (My monitor is on the left side of the desk, below the cds. I couldn't have got monitor and ceiling in one shot.)