Random RL babblings
Feb. 19th, 2007 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lls_mutantI finally sent Chapter 12 of AIL and Though I Speak With the Tongues of Men and Angels to Fiction Alley. I'm not too behind on AIL, but Men and Angels? I wrote that back in October, and posted on All Saints' Day.
Speaking of religious holidays, Lent begins on Wednesday. I'm not Catholic, but I'm going to give up something for it this year- sweets. I feel a little bad about using a religious period as a dieting aid, but I'm hoping the spiritual aspect of it will give me strength when will power fails. (Especially since I don't truly believe in giving up sweets as a dieting aid. I believe in moderation.) So, yeah. No sweets.
I've also made a resolution that makes me happy. I'm toying with where I want my characters to end in the Eiswelt project, and I realized that I want my one female POV character to end up single. Partly because I hate the Noah's Ark mentality, and my other characters are hooked up. (Although two came to me as a couple, and the second's current fiance' (second wife) is a major plot point and a major character as well.) But I also started thinking about the message it would send if I hooked her up with the person she has a crush on now, and two seconds of logical thought said I do NOT want to be the author who hooks a former slave girl up with her former owner. I'm sure much of my f-list can concur with this thought. And as I looked at her arc, her arc is going from being a scared, uncertain slave girl to an independent woman. She's not going to hate men or relationships- I just don't plan on that being her focus. This is good :)
Suppose I should clean and make soup for playgroup!
Speaking of religious holidays, Lent begins on Wednesday. I'm not Catholic, but I'm going to give up something for it this year- sweets. I feel a little bad about using a religious period as a dieting aid, but I'm hoping the spiritual aspect of it will give me strength when will power fails. (Especially since I don't truly believe in giving up sweets as a dieting aid. I believe in moderation.) So, yeah. No sweets.
I've also made a resolution that makes me happy. I'm toying with where I want my characters to end in the Eiswelt project, and I realized that I want my one female POV character to end up single. Partly because I hate the Noah's Ark mentality, and my other characters are hooked up. (Although two came to me as a couple, and the second's current fiance' (second wife) is a major plot point and a major character as well.) But I also started thinking about the message it would send if I hooked her up with the person she has a crush on now, and two seconds of logical thought said I do NOT want to be the author who hooks a former slave girl up with her former owner. I'm sure much of my f-list can concur with this thought. And as I looked at her arc, her arc is going from being a scared, uncertain slave girl to an independent woman. She's not going to hate men or relationships- I just don't plan on that being her focus. This is good :)
Suppose I should clean and make soup for playgroup!
