A Twist of Things to Come

Got behind on my GeekaChicas promotions here.

The oldest one is New Year's Benediction featuring a video I also shared in this space, so I'm not sure whether that one counts as backlog or not. But there you go.

The Batman News has been heating up lately, so next was Jesse's The Dark Knight Rises: Rumor, Leaked Script and Casting News.

Then came Beatrice Blythe's superlative report on The Best Books of the Decade at Tor.com.

Then Jesse shared some favorite videos in Five Great YouTube Vids, followed by his Anne Hathaway Joins The Dark Knight Rises- Purr-fect!

Goddess of All chimed in with an article about Resolutions? and an opportunity to share ours.

A new Chica/ Guest blogger Muse of Dogs and Fur, shared A Personal Tribute to Sargent Shriver.

Today we have Jesse's interview with Romance/Erotica writer Daisy Harris, in Indie Q&A with Daisy Harris, who has some interesting things to say about the nuts and bolts of erotic romantic fiction and the changing marketplace.

Yesterday, I had a scheduled chat with one of my Wise Readers. It had been a few days since I had sent her my work, so the manuscript was some 25-30 pages longer by then than what I had sent earlier in the week. We talked for a bit about where things were shaky in the plot, or needed clarification -- I was very pleased that most of her notes were about things I had also made revision notes about, so that was good.

Then I sent her the last pages I had written, with the hint that a little-seen character showed up again in it. I swapped out the laundry while she read, and came back to see this:

[11:11] WR: holy fuck!
[11:11] Me: Is that a good Holy fuck?
[11:14] WR: holy fuck!!
[11:14] WR: wow
[11:14] WR: damn
[11:14] Me: LOL
[11:14] WR: I did NOT see that coming
[11:15] WR: even though you told me RYM was in this section
[11:15] Me: YAYS!
[11:15] WR: wow
[11:16] WR: hell yes
[11:16] WR: go with this, girl, just run with it

This made me very happy, because she's one of a very few people I genuinely trust to call me on it when I go off the rails.

So, the draft is very nearly done, and I have rediscovered the Roller Derby!

Of course, after that I got complete jack done because of all teh other stuff piling up that I needed to do. But today is another day.