brightness falls from the air

[hedda62]

A few Waters of Time-related notes:

- I rediscovered and posted on my blog the floor plan for Evensong, Hector Armitage's manor house, that pharnabazus made me ages ago.

- If you've read Time and Fevers, you might be interested in checking out my Snape crossover story "In Time of Pestilence" on AO3.

- I just need to redo the TFT cover (I'm using GIMP now, which works much better for me than the previous image software) and then I'll upload files for a new edition, with corrected typos. Had a panic while noting them for correction, until I finally realized that the Kindle copy I have is the original, with tons of missing italics, and the December revision fixed most of those. But there were a few left, and some other stuff. Better to have as clean a version as possible.

- I'm thinking about posting "The Opposite of an Epitaph" on AO3, with a link to my website. I hope this would be kosher; it's not the purpose of the archive, but I'm getting frustrated knowing there are people out there who love my fanfic who have no idea I've written original stuff, and some of them have subscribed to me so at least they'd be aware this story exists even if they didn't read it. Thoughts?

- Trying to come up with a way to give myself space to start writing Book Five (which I need to find a title for, stat). If I can get away for a few days, I may be able to concentrate without all the distractions of the to-do list. I'd like to do a draft of the first chapter and a vague plan for the rest of the book, and that will help with knowing what research needs to be done and what plots need to be hatched.

Otherwise, we continued our Shakespearean adventures last week with a production of As You Like It in the ruins of a girls' boarding school in the next county over - great fun - and I have started doing Jazzercise. This morning I walked the mile to class and then another back, which in combination gave me my 10,000 steps for the day (I should accumulate a few more by nightfall).

And we really really need rain.

Comments

[isis]

I did notice some dodgy italics (missing italics, I guess) in the lyric excerpts in TAF. I didn't flag them for you, though, sorry! I wasn't sure if it was my e-reader or the file.

I think it's reasonable to post your original works to AO3 if you like. I am pretty sure others have done so, and I agree, it makes sense to get readers of your fanfic to be aware of your original works.

[hedda62]

Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for those in my review (close to next on the list!). And I probably will end up posting the story to AO3. I did have TFT early chapters up there for a while (before publication), so it's not a new idea for me, but it feels different now. Still, likely a good plan.

BTW, read your review on Goodreads, and I may end up responding in the DW/LJ space, just because it makes me think about structure and pacing and genre and all those topics I can blather on about for days. Not a slinging match in the least - I know everyone's going to react differently and like different things. And Time Goes By very much does not conform to the "there and back again" formula (which I don't think I ever established, let alone promised to stick to), in fact rather blows it out of the water, so it's hard to say if you'd like it at all. Maybe someday I'll convince you to try it, though. :)

[isis]

Thanks for not getting (at least outwardly!) upset - I know it's hard when someone doesn't adore your (my) lovingly-crafted work! But I think it's basically a disconnect between what I wanted to read and what you wanted to write, and so it is all de gustibus; I am not a romance reader and was hoping for more Arcadian conspiracy action and less George/Olivia (it doesn't help that George doesn't appeal to me on an emotional level). I am also not a fan of WIPs and thus because I can't read the whole shebang at once, and don't feel closure from this book, I'm inclined to put off reading any more until I can read from beginning to end - if I want to, then. I do feel the book is structurally imbalanced, though, and I'll be happy to contribute to your discussion if you host one.