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I just posted my 250th chapter of a Tale of Ever After, my InuYasha fanfic continuation story. 250 chapters, 17 days of story time. I consider it a soap opera, not a novel, and it has quite a cast of characters.
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Apocalypse and Human Reality
Humanity seems to really like images of apocalypse. We spin stories of things falling apart into chaos and then salvation as we are lead into a new tomorrow. We long for a restored world where all is right. We want the heavens to punish the wicked. What humanity forgets is that we tend to bring on the disasters ourselves - through economics, injustice, greed, and misusing our resources.
WE are the four horsemen. We have exercised that function over and over throughout human history.
And we don't get a restored world once we do it. We get grief and hunger and warlords and serfdom and starvation and dark ages when it all gets too big. Sy
Camp NaNoWriMo starts on the 1st
I'm going to April Fool's myself and write for it. Never tried to do that so soon after the November one. Wish me luck that I've recovered! And good luck to anybody else who's doing it.
Poetry Muse
That poetry muse of mine,
tired of merely writing
faux folk songs
in a massive soap opera setting,
has returned
freeversifying
my news reads.
She's such a strange girl, she is.
Sorting books...
Books I've been reading this year that I decided to unbury from around my desk and move to their proper bookshelves. There are some others that didn't make this list, but this is the bulk of them.
Mabon and the Guardians of Celtic Britain: Hero Myths in the Mabinogian - Matthews
Phanerozoic paleocontinental world maps - Smith, Hurley and Briden
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere - Ward
Knitting from the Top - Walker
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East - Anderson
The Third Chimpanzee - Diamond
Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relent
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