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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012 11:15 pm
So the now very large meme about writing a character prompt and delivering head canon now has a few thousands of words in comments. To borrow from [livejournal.com profile] snitchnipped I am not succinct.,
The Meme is:

1. Pick a pairing or a character
2. Ask me my particular headcanon regarding something about them
3. Post to your journal to share your own headcanon!


To which I added, (and if you want to include OCs from fic and such, bring it on!)

I have just now written over 1,000 words for Clairel, who asked about Jill, Eustace and the TSG AU.  I just posted it here in the Everybody Lives, Nobody Dies AU Community




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Sunday, November 6th, 2011 09:58 pm
Thanks so very, very much to everyone who commented on the latest. I am so grateful and the reason I've not responded is that I've been trying to finish up the next chapter. It's not been a good week for writing, so I'll just keep pushing. It's a good thing I'm not doing NaNo, because I'd be so far behind it's ridiculous. So, let's talk about some things.

About Jill -- wait a minute, is that in the book? )

Breaking the Borders, AsCast, and Big Bang )

comment fic on toomuchtebbitt )

(In other words, I've apparently decided screw the ages, let's go for it).
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Sunday, October 30th, 2011 08:59 pm
Chapter 10 of Apostolic Way, Lionsgate, just went up.  It is HUGE, but as the first part of it is a re-tread of Under Cover, I did not split it. 

Links to information on owl hearing are here, here, and a cool video here:


The discussion of convergent evolution here and here.

Green Tree Python



Emerald Tree Boa



Images courtesy of wikicommons

I did a lot of google fu regarding what Indians of the state of Gujarat eat for breakfast and have links to many, many recipes for handvo and theplas as well as soap rationing, maps in the UK in 1942, what to do with your garden in October in the UK, and the growing of runner beans on wigwams. There are some things I couldn't nail down and so just inserted them, like the assumption that Russell House is of fairly recent construction and so has advanced, indoor plumbing, gas rationing for zoo personnel, and other things.

Gerald Durrell's biography is here, among other places.

Again a huge thanks to Clio and Miniver who both helped enormously in the development of Jill -- Clio with research regarding her background in Jamaica and Miniver who over a year ago mentioned the possibility of Jill as Afro-Caribbean.
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2011 01:54 pm
Hello out there! A few things! First, sign ups for the Narnia Big Bang are underway! Only 10,000 words! or 20,000 words! And Artists! yes, please the Big Bang needs those who are good with art in whatever format -- fanmix, icons, drawing, digital, etc. etc. So, go! Sign up! Narnia Big Bang.

On the subject of writing, I am, having peppered [livejournal.com profile] l_a_r_m regarding what Richard Russell looks like post hospital stay. (Really, I have no idea).  Clio has been helping with Jill.  I am, oddly, writing the events immediately post-Silver Chair for the third time -- once in a draft that didn't survive the decision to abandon the initial outline and write TQSiT, a second time for Under Cover, and now this time.  I'm over 10,000 words in and it's going pretty well. My latest issue has been what I could lop off and do for the Narnia Big Bang -- which I really want to do. It's all overwhelming and daunting, and I'm feeling the failure acutely. I also recently saw a tattoo on a woman that said, "You're doing it wrong" and have considered that very appropriate given some of the latest.  Why do people always add the "but"?

In really, really exciting news, that I just saw via Twitter, the Royal Society has just made all its articles available online for free that are over 70 years old, going back to 1665, including Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment, Isaac Newton's first paper and Thomas Huxley's paper Remarks upon Archaopteryx lithographica which I cited in TSG.

Sneak peek behind the cut )