Searching the archives

Back in the early oughts when I was writing Time for Tea, I had a blog for my betas where I could post links to research stuff and notes about chapters I posted for review, before I switched over to a Yahoo group entirely. It still exists, though its structure got kind of broken as Google grabbed it for me and forced it into Blogger, and I've been browsing it, mostly to come up with stuff that I might post on the current blog. As you might expect, most of the links are 404 Not Found now, though a few still work at promoting nostalgia.

Anyway, I did find a bit of an essay there, that apparently stemmed from a no-longer-extant LJ discussion about gender-neutral characters, and posted it with a little additional commentary here: http://ericahsmith.wordpress.com/2014/03/16/characters-gender-balance-gender-neutrality-and-history/.

I may also post, with revision, some of the Myers-Briggs personality tests I took for various characters, which I amused penwiper26 with the other day. It's interesting where getting to know your characters better through writing them can actually change those sorts of results, and where it doesn't.

Waiting for The Last Snow Of The Season Dammit It Better Be to start later today. Should do more outdoor stuff in the meanwhile.