Life in the Literary Trenches

[felis_ultharus]

Just a post to announce that I'm not dead.

I've been reading around the clock. I finally crashed this weekend. I only read about 20 poems yesterday, and a third of a novel today.

I calculate the absolute minimum I need not to crash and burn on this exam on Friday is reading 2.7 novels. I'm a slow reader and two of them are long novels, too -- long, but very good. I'd also like to get more poetry read.

I have had a bit of a social life. jenjoou throws a great party, and anime nights have been fun. I'm enjoying Last Exile.

Better news is that I finally finished my heavy edit ofmy novel, and now I'm doing my final, lighter edit. I calculated this would take about 4 days, but it's going to be more like 20, given my reading schedule.

And on the subject of my writing, my public reading at Zeke's gallery is now online. It includes a few paragraphs from my novel. I'm proud and very embarrassed at the same time -- no one told me it'd be web-accessible :/

Comments

[jenjoou.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're not dead. I'm getting zombie baby flashbacks now (I want to see that movie...).

Good luck on the reading. It's a lot but I'm sure you can do it. *hug* It'll all be over soon and we can sit back and enjoy some more Last Exile. ;)

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

*hugs back*

Here (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103873/trivia) is the IMDB entry for Dead Alive I'd forgotten that Dead Alive was only the American release title.

I'm not sure which trivia detail from the IMDB I find funnier:

"During the lawnmower scene, blood was pumped at five gallons per second."

Or,

"The song played on the organ as the mourners wait to enter the church (prior to the embalming scene) is none other than "Sodomy" from Peter Jackson's previous film Meet the Feebles (1989)."

[yumemisama.livejournal.com]

I'm proud and very embarrassed at the same time -- no one told me it'd be web-accessible :/

So's another one of yours -- that was how I found you before. In retrospect, you probably are the only person with that first name associated with your university, but I was kind of surprised at the time. ^^; Usually I have to work much, much harder at being nosy on the Internet.

Your housemate, on the other hand, tends to post pictures of himself with sugar-pink hair in fairly accessible places, so it's not like the two of you as an aggregate are difficult to get a hold of. XD

Congrats on the public reading, and on the novel editing going at all, with your reading schedule. I tend to speed through books, but I think even I'd have trouble getting through everything you've been assigned. Especially if I wanted to, you know, sleep at any point in the process. I'll tell you what I tell all my friends during exam crunch time, which is, "Please don't die." ^^;;

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Another one of mine...? But that's my only public reading...?

And thank you ^^

[yumemisama.livejournal.com]

Don't look at me for explanations, bwana. I don't keep that close a track of where you are. Found it at the beginning of the summer when I was trying to see if you had a FictionPress account or something similar, which I never did find.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Now you have me extremely intrigued -- and a little worried for my memory if I've been doing readings and not remembering them. I don't suppose you could post that link...?

(Hadn't heard about Fictionpress until just now. I looked it up. Interesting, but I think I'm too old-fashioned -- I prefer paper to photons.

I do have something published somewhere on the net -- a science-fiction short story called "Facts" that I may or may not have published under my nickname James. It was ages ago -- maybe even before 2000 -- when I was new to the net. I can't for the life of me remember the name of the site that published it, so I've never been able to find it again, and googling either of my names doesn't seem to produce it, so I've given it up for lost.

I'd like to revamp that story some day, now that I've improved, but until I find that site, I'm not sure what the legal ramifications of submitting an altered version of it to someone else would be.)

[yumemisama.livejournal.com]

I'd post it if I could remember it. I didn't bookmark it, unfortunately. If I recall correctly, it was a link off of somewhere else I found by submitting strings involving your first name and "Concordia". (FictionPress accounts have bios -- Googling non-personal identifiers like school affiliation and screen names in use elsewhere is a good way to dig them out. ^_^) It may well have been some sort of university event, and I believe it was in someone's personal blog.

Me, I don't like handwriting lengthy things if I can help it. I've been typing since I was 11 (I turn 25 on this coming Saturday -- amazingly I've never managed to give myself carpal tunnel syndrome) and especially since I've hit college, I don't even hand-write notes much anymore. I type basically everything, except the Navajo and Esperanto, because bar-l and g-circumflex unfortunately don't exist in any font known to man.

You will occasionally see me filling a notebook page with a phrase that's stuck in my head, or attractive glossolalia, but this is more a self-soothing thing than any attempt to actually write in longhand. For important things that I'm going to have to be able to read later, I use a Palm Tungsten E2, for which my Graffiti skills are reasonably accurate.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

I just meant that I prefer to be published in paper rather than photons -- I don't think of Web publishing as real, or I'd already count myself as published :/

Maybe that's an old-fashioned view, but it is how I honestly feel.

But thanks anyway. I couldn't find it, but if you do remember anything more about it, let me know!

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

...which indicates how bad I am at skimming, since you said you didn't have the link :/

Now am I'm beginning to wonder if I've gone senile, because I can't remember ever reading my material publicly before.

[yumemisama.livejournal.com]

Well, if you're just going senile now, I suppose that gives me a five-year window to get all my useful work done before I lose my mind... ^_~