Thud: Sugar

[leahbobet]

November 29, 2008 Progress Notes:

"Sugar"

Words today: 550.
Words total: 3500.
Reason for stopping: It's late. Again.

Books in progress: Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep; Robert Graves, The Long Week-end.
The glamour: Worked a signing at the bookstore, promptly introvert-fitted, and came home.

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Reading for The Enchanted Generation continues apace. I spent a good chunk of last night and some of tonight reading buckets of WWI poetry to pick out epigraphs for each section, and have, I think, more than I can actually use. There is a terrible embarrasment of riches there, which is just serving to further convince me that WWI was actually the Worst War Ever. In summary:

cristalia (11:56:07 PM): It is good for me that WWI veterans were all into poetry and not, say, peggle.
matociquala (11:56:59 PM): heee
matociquala (11:57:10 PM): I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by popcap.
cristalia (11:58:33 PM): (bloated hysterical naked, wedging themselves in their office chairs at dawn, looking for an angry fix)

I may actually make a filter on which to babble about my TEG research stuff. If that happens and you care to hear me natter on upon said filter, speak now.

And tomorrow is the annual trip to the craft show, so I am crawling off to bed.

Comments

[inaurolillium.livejournal.com]

That conversation has now been forwarded to a Popcap employee for maximum amusement.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

...heeee. Oh god. *g*

[atheilen.livejournal.com]

I would love to be in on the filter, if you don't mind. I've always wanted to write a WWI book, and now maybe I will not have to.

TEG filter

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

yes, please

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Me please.

[katallen.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see your thoughts on what you find, please.

(I wanted to put 'Filter me!' but that'd just cause international misunderstanding)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I would like on that filter.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

I think there should be no filter. Creative nattering will be an important part of your legacy as a writer when you are taught in The Best Schools, and filtering it will make it harder for future grad students to write misinformed papers about you.

Just say NO to filters! It's for SCIENCE!

[tithenai.livejournal.com]

filtering it will make it harder for future grad students to write misinformed papers about you.

But that is the POINT. I look forward to the day when a student has to write a SSHRC application to obtain funds with which to harrass cristalia's relatives for a lead on who might have had access to either her LJ password or her secret, coveted filters!

[tithenai.livejournal.com]

I speak, friend! Let me enter!

[merriehaskell.livejournal.com]

Filter me this, batman.

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I want on that filter. WWI has been an active fascination for years.

[ginny-t.livejournal.com]

Sign me up.

[ckd]

Totally coincidentally, I was in Kansas City last week and went to the WWI museum/memorial there. Pretty good, though as you might expect it suffers a bit from "more attention paid to the last bit where the US showed up, than to the first three years" syndrome.

I'd be interested in your WWI research natterings.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Babble at me, please.

[deakat]

Yes, please.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

I, too, would like to be on your WWI filter. As would my brother, were he actually on LJ.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Speaking. :)

[seabream.livejournal.com]

This nattering sounds interesting. If you do filter, etc...

And thanks for the craft show reminder. I'm conflicted about going myself. Fears of potential looks of disappointment at what may be a low turnout this year. How was it?

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

It was okay. Themes this year seem to be hats, wooden cutting boards that are all the same, and mugs. We didn't buy a lot; most of the things we actually really liked were much too expensive to like.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I would love to be on that filter.