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Confessions of a Creataholic
April 2006 ArchiveFrozen WitnessWord Count: 2182 I think maybe I *can* fit it into the required number of words. Frozen WitnessWord Count: 721 Negative wordage. This is a *good* thing. Regency Rant: WhistDear Regency Author, The game called Whist, (much beloved by regency gentlemen), does not in any way resemble Poker (much beloved by Mississippi riverboat gamblers). Whist is the predecessor to Bridge. It is a four person (two on two), trick taking game using trumps. There is no ante, and there is no pot — scoring is based on points. Money exchanges hands based on a predetermined amount per point, per game, or per rubber. And most assuredly one does not look at ones cards and then throw them down in disgust and call “fold” — I can't help imagining what should happen in a real game of whist, should someone attempt to do so. “Fold!” Captain Deveries threw down his cards in disgust. What if I earned it?I wanted to complain about one of the checkmarks on the “Are you Spoiled?” Meme, that was going around, and it didn't seem fair to comment on other people's “Are you Spoiled?” without seeming willing to make the same confessions myself.
Do you have: Do you: Are you: Have you: Did you: If you have 40+ you are spoiled. I have 18 if all the ?s count. I'm probably not even in danger of maybe one day becoming spoiled. So, having established that, I would like to say that I utterly resent having “good credit” on this list. I have good credit because I have gone without, rather than living beyond my means. That isn't even sort of maybe being spoilt. That's being responsible. There are a number of other items I find very iffy… Frozen WitnessFrozen Witness It needs to be between 3000-5000 if I am to submit it to the anthology it's being written for. So I'm hopefully about a quarter done — only it doesn't feel like it. More like a tenth. (Which would make it considerably shorter than Velvet Lies, but still far too long for the intended purpose.) I'm also still not positive it exactly fits the subject requirements, but it's close enough that I don't think they'll be annoyed at me for sending it. *IF* it fits the requested word length. Nasty big horrible IF. Catching Up“Crimson Courtesies, Velvet Lies” has been sent off to people who expressed an interest. (If you are interested and didn't get a copy, feel free to ask for one.) It has also been read by my husband and oldest son. Ben often reads favorite lines aloud, and although I had already deluged him with a selection of my own favorites from this one, which probably took some of the fun out of it, he did find one I had missed telling him about: “Politeness is the art of insulting someone in such a way that they are not allowed to act offended?” He also read the ending out aloud. I continue, slowly, to work on the Cantata cover for Boyd. I'm still doing the 3D model of the Coral Palace, but with Lies essentially finished (I hope!) I already have another use for it, so maybe it wasn't crazy to embark on that project after all. I'm not certain, really, about what I should be concentrating on now. I feel badly about how my Dad's work is going. He isn't making money. It's not my fault, because I didn't get him into this, but I said I would help and clearly I'm not managing to be helpful enough. My dad may be more important to me than writing, but his project really isn't and I would rather be writing than working for him. But I still feel guilty whenever I think about even trying to get started on the next writing project. I also feel like going back to bed and sleeping for a couple days, so maybe worrying about what to focus on next is a trifle premature. Very little schoolwork happened last week, either, and I am once again behind in logging the kids hours. |
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