Drawing circles in the sky.

[greygirlbeast]

First, an apology, of sorts, to the people who read this journal via MySpace. A few days back, MySpace mysteriously jettisoned the login cookie that prevents me having to remember my password and which email account I use for MySpace, and because I do actually rather hate MySpace, it was this morning before I could be bothered to try and remember what was what.

Yesterday, I wrote 1,267 words on Chapter One of The Red Tree. And I think that I have decided that there will not be footnotes, because too many people complain that footnotes break up the flow of the text. Instead, there will be endnotes for each chapter, which are really the same thing as footnotes, only they come at the end of the chapter instead at the foot of each page. Yesterday, I completed the first section of the chapter, and today I will begin the second.

It's that time again, time to point you to the places where you can easily acquire copies of all of my novels, and one of the short-story collections, so that no one has to utter those dreaded words, "I can't find your books." (shudder)

Daughter of Hounds

Silk

Threshold

Low Red Moon

Murder of Angels

Tales of Pain and Wonder

Not a bad day yesterday. I was done with the writing by 4:30 p.m. or so, and it was one of those perfect spring days outside. All those shades of fresh green bursting forth against the blue sky, and the sun so white and dazzling. I left the house for the second day in a row. We walked to Videodrome to return Enchanted (which I still name grotesquely charming). Then we got Thai for dinner, and then we watched the first two episodes of Millennium (now that we're done with Angel). Though I truly loved the second season, I missed most of the first. I think Millennium might have been Chris Carter at his creepiest, and I'm just glad it didn't show up on television until more than two years after I'd written my first Deacon Silvey story.

I passed much of the remainder of the evening in Second Life, rping with the Omegas in Toxian City. Really, it was all too complex and wacky and peculiar to try and recount, though Nareth's victorious battle against the sentient interstellar fungi that had infected her thrall's brain was quite invigorating. Later, Spooky read me more of House of Leaves. "Which is exactly when Karen screams." Such a sublime line. Oh, there was a very brief "absence" seizure following dinner, but I think I'm actually getting used to those little ones. So yes, a fine yesterday.

Comments

[cdennismoore.livejournal.com]

Not to add to your confusion, but I think I'd be more apt to read the notes if they came at the bottom of the page than when I got to the end of the chapter and had to flip back and forth. Just my thoughts.

I don't mind footnotes so much.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

Not to add to your confusion, but I think I'd be more apt to read the notes if they came at the bottom of the page than when I got to the end of the chapter and had to flip back and forth. Just my thoughts.

No added confusion. Just a strengthening of my conviction that it is impossible to please everyone, so pleasing myself is most important. ;-)

[aetherialrumors.livejournal.com]

Then we got Thai for dinner, and then we watched the first two episodes of Millennium (now that we're done with Angel). Though I truly loved the second season, I missed most of the first. I think Millennium might have been Chris Carter at his creepiest...

I loved that show. First season is good. Second Season is best; thanks to Glen Morgan and James Wong. Third Season is alright; sadly, Chris Carter chose to ignore/lessen most of the really cool stuff Morgan and Wong did second season.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Seconded

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

I loved that show. First season is good. Second Season is best; thanks to Glen Morgan and James Wong. Third Season is alright; sadly, Chris Carter chose to ignore/lessen most of the really cool stuff Morgan and Wong did second season.

My biggest problem with Season Three is I feel it chose to negate rather than face the consequences of the gorgeous conclusion to Season Two (which is the end of the series, so far as I'm concerned).

[scarletboi.livejournal.com]

I own both seasons of Millennium on DVD. There is no third season. :P

Kat says that Frank Black is an imminently soothing and comforting character.

[nykolus.livejournal.com]

there isn't?

http://www.amazon.com/Millennium-Complete-Third-Season/dp/B0009X76XW/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1208455599&sr=8-2

[scarletboi.livejournal.com]

*ignores the link*

Nope. No such beast.

[nykolus.livejournal.com]

oh. heh heh... i get it. sorry!

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

Kat says that Frank Black is an imminently soothing and comforting character.

Yes, and sexy. Don't forget sexy.

[sovay]

Lance Henriksen—both as Frank Black and as Bishop—is one of my small gods.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Ah, the second season of Millenium.
I got handed a game of In Nomine to run and have been looting stuff straight from that series to the delight of my players (which makes me sad, in a way, they always seem to enjoy the things I steal more than the things I make up myself).
Now I will have Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra stuck in my head for the rest of the day.

Footnotes

[kousmichoff.livejournal.com]

You know, before reading Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, I was fairly indifferent to footnotes in fiction. Her footnotes (often continuing for pages) are marvelous and personally, I thought they enriched the standing text.

But your book is your book, and we all trust you'll decide what works best for your story.

I wonder, though, are the footnotes usually added after the entire story is written, or added after a particular chapter... Hmm.

Re: Footnotes

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

I wonder, though, are the footnotes usually added after the entire story is written, or added after a particular chapter... Hmm.

I will be adding my endnotes as I complete each chapter.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Millennium was one of the finest shows on television. One of my favourite episodes was from season two, entitled "Somehow Satan Got Behind Me." Just creepy, witty, hilarious, frightening work...

Two other things:

1) Kind of meta, but what blue tag are you using? When I was using it more regularly, anything other than "blue" refused to show on anything but my own front page. i really like the look of in "4169e1".

2)I'm working on a constant networking and promotion thing, for the people whose work I think respect and appreciate, here (http://wolven.livejournal.com/1411771.html), and would like to know if there's anything I missed to which you would like me to point.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

1) Kind of meta, but what blue tag are you using? When I was using it more regularly, anything other than "blue" refused to show on anything but my own front page. i really like the look of house in "4169e1".

I am using #3BB9FF.

2)I'm working on a constant networking and promotion thing, for the people whose work I think respect and appreciate, here, and would like to know if there's anything I missed to which you would like me to point.

Thank you. I shall have a look.

Off-Topic: another reason to hope Whedon's 'Dollhouse' is good

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Because the cast now includes Amy Acker (http://www.aintitcool.com/node/36431). Fred lovers represennnnnt! (And Illyria lovers, too, though I missed those episodes.)

Yes, I'm trying to send you cheering things.

Re: Off-Topic: another reason to hope Whedon's 'Dollhouse' is good

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

And Illyria lovers, too, though I missed those episodes.

You really should remedy that.

"Angel"

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

First I'm getting up to speed on the early years of Buffy. After that, I'm gonna try Angel.

One of the McMenamin's theater-pubs in Portland started showing episodes of Angel each Tuesday night last fall, but because of Fox officials' being potentially hinky about non-traditional screenings -- this was when the Writer's Guild Strike was looming -- McMenamin's and us geeks couldn't pimp the screenings in any way except word of mouth. Which wasn't enough, and the turnout was puny (as opposed to the decent groups for Buffy and the hundreds of people we got last summer for weekly Firefly). McMenamin's showed Season One of Angel and that was it.

But I have other ways to experience the show...

Re: "Angel"

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

First I'm getting up to speed on the early years of Buffy.

I'm really not a fan of the first few Seasons of Buffy. I find the comedy usually falls flat. But I rather liked Season 6, and most of Season 7. I'm really a Whedon fan because of Angel and, mostly, Firefly.

Re: "Angel"

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

I'm in it for the early construction of Buffy's story, not so much the humor. (Though my one complaint about Season One was that it has some dramatic missteps and stretching of reality that I didn't quite buy; it's a really underpoplated school where no one notices several kids eat the principal!) And the cast is always appealing.

I'm pretty sure from what I've seen that Angel would really be up my alley, but my previous attempts to get into it, I almost immediately got lost. (I found Buffy easier to dip into, which I did at the fourth season finale; I then watched most of Season 5 and some of 6.) So that's another from-the-ground-up show I plan to watch.

Re: Off-Topic: another reason to hope Whedon's 'Dollhouse' is good

[humglum.livejournal.com]

So, it's actually really going to happen. I've been so skeptical
about it becoming a reality since I first heard of it.
That is really very good news.

"Dollhouse"

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

I really did wonder if it was going to be sacrificed to the Strike gods, due to the timing of its initial green-light. I was happy to hear it survive the strike, too.

The actors are in rehearsal, which means some scripting's been done. Progress! NOT progressing too fast! (Which should relieve the Lorax...)

[eldritch00.livejournal.com]

Question about the new Penguin paperback reissues: were all of those novels revised? I remember that Threshold was.

Also, I missed where you listed the eight stories that make up A is for Alien--if you did, that is--and I'm curious. That's a collection I'm really looking forward to, especially since I've just re-read The Dry Salvages and am now doing the same for "Riding the White Bull."

[sovay]

And I think that I have decided that there will not be footnotes, because too many people complain that footnotes break up the flow of the text.

I find endnotes far more disruptive, actually.

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

Sigh.

[loki1978de.livejournal.com]

Now that is creepy paralell
I just got my Millenium Box this week
I preordered a used complete box, as it is out of sale of course now.
And on monday someone offered one on marketplace on my conditions (new or "like new" and *mumbles price*)
I won't be home this evening cause i need to see a friend to use his computer to solve another friend's computer problem
But i will try to catch up with you ;-)

[chn-breathmint.livejournal.com]

I actually liked Millennium more than X-Files, and it was sublimely creepy and at times, elegiac.

Oddly enough, one of my favorite episodes is the one that involves Catherine Black's work on an incest case - I think it's "The Well-Worn Lock".

The eerieness was improved by the fact that where I lived the TV station showed it at 1AM in the morning and I would have to stay up to watch it, alone, with the rest of my family sleeping.

- Mel

[styggian.livejournal.com]

I always try t give either something by you or Storm Constantine to people on birthdays whom haven't already read you.
I found a trade paperback of Low Red Moon and Murder of Angels at this excellent bookstore in Burbank called Dark Delicacies.