You'll just have to Settle.

[eredien]

I was going to make a big post, talking about how weirdquark and I made soup, and how it snowed, and how great I'm finding the otherkin discussions lately, and how nice SR's birthday was, and how I need to plan travel to cons and make a schedule and budget for that, and how I need to mend my clothing, and how I made "I can't believe it's not pasta" (my first tofu dish), and how I successfully completed planning and buying tickets for both legs of my winter vacation. I was also going to do research and discuss CS Lewis and word-choice, and write answers to a survey.

Aichmetes, I am sorry I didn't call you back; by the time I heard from my parents it was two hours later and I will try to research the travel options for the con tomorrow. How many people does your car fit, by the way?

But mostly I am tired now, and that's all too much to think about and it will be saved for a later post.

Two days of thinking still hasn't got the knot of why my story got rejected any more unravelled; please consider this an open call for zeta readers (syona keleste, rush-that-speaks, and gaudior, you've already read it). It's a short fantasy work, two pages. I would be emailing it to volunteers. I'd be asking questions like "do you lose track of the plot? If so, where?" and "what do you think about the language in this story as a whole? In this passage?"

Comments

[signy1.livejournal.com]

Send it on over. I'm not a bad beta, if I do say so myself. I'd be happy to give it a look.

[zdenka]

The worst of my exams are over now, so I can read it if you like.

[jedibl.livejournal.com]

I would love to zeta-read for you. I've honestly never done it before, but I'm usually pretty good at figuring out what works for me and what doesn't.

[eredien]

Ok everyone! Thanks for volunteering; please check your emails.

[eredien]

I don't have your email come to think of it; can you send it to me?

[jedibl.livejournal.com]

I've sent you a reply through Athena's Web, b/c I don't know if I can send this through LJ without posting it to the world.

[jedibl.livejournal.com]

OK, that apparently didn't work, as the e-mail got bounced back to me. My e-mail is myfirstname.mylastname@alumnae.brynmawr.edu; L'Ignota or Weirdquark or rush-that-speaks or gaudior know my full name (and how to spell it) if you don't.