Evening Tide fully posted; Open Library
Sep. 27th, 2014 01:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
foxinthestarsOkay, Evening Tide is now fully posted at Ao3 and at FF.net. (BTW, Jo, most of the changes I made after you read it were just details, although I reworked the penultimate scene a bit.)
Now, I need to turn my attention to the companion piece I've been working on, which is set a few years later from Annie's POV. I've been having a good time, but my Annie-muse has OCD (with fair insight, mostly counting and symmetry with also some checking and magical thinking/bargaining going on), and working in her viewpoint can be kind of draining and fussy. I'm also nervous because it's like, I could screw this up so bad. Like, I want to portray her disorder with reasonable accuracy while on the one hand not reducing her to it and on the other hand not glossing over the challenges it puts on her. Also I might be infodumping too much. Ah, well, do the best I can and then go looking for beta readers I guess is the best thing to do...
I'm also thinking of doing like a DVD-esque commentary track on Evening Tide, like as an Ao3-exclusive bonus chapter, but doing the next story should be a higher priority, I think.
Anyway, in other news, a PSA: Open Library IS AWESOME. I'd known about it for awhile but just in the last little bit have tried actually borrowing books, and it is very cool. It works better if you get Adobe Digital Editions, though; I tried using the web reader and it kept getting "connection errors" and bouncing me back up to the top of the page which was annoying. With the Adobe thing, though, very nice.
The first book I checked out (and still have) is The Survivor's Guide to Sex by Staci Haines. I originally found it as somewhat-belated background reading for my fanfic, but dang, it feels like mental chiropractic just to read this thing. (As for that reason I found it, yes, I highly recommend it to anyone writing fanfic about Finnick Odair in a serious register.)
And it looks like I can get my Lloyd Alexander fixes there and save some car trips. I already tried out the Adobe app on The Truthful Harp (not a big favorite, but still).
Ahh, I'm happy. ^___^
Now, I need to turn my attention to the companion piece I've been working on, which is set a few years later from Annie's POV. I've been having a good time, but my Annie-muse has OCD (with fair insight, mostly counting and symmetry with also some checking and magical thinking/bargaining going on), and working in her viewpoint can be kind of draining and fussy. I'm also nervous because it's like, I could screw this up so bad. Like, I want to portray her disorder with reasonable accuracy while on the one hand not reducing her to it and on the other hand not glossing over the challenges it puts on her. Also I might be infodumping too much. Ah, well, do the best I can and then go looking for beta readers I guess is the best thing to do...
I'm also thinking of doing like a DVD-esque commentary track on Evening Tide, like as an Ao3-exclusive bonus chapter, but doing the next story should be a higher priority, I think.
Anyway, in other news, a PSA: Open Library IS AWESOME. I'd known about it for awhile but just in the last little bit have tried actually borrowing books, and it is very cool. It works better if you get Adobe Digital Editions, though; I tried using the web reader and it kept getting "connection errors" and bouncing me back up to the top of the page which was annoying. With the Adobe thing, though, very nice.
The first book I checked out (and still have) is The Survivor's Guide to Sex by Staci Haines. I originally found it as somewhat-belated background reading for my fanfic, but dang, it feels like mental chiropractic just to read this thing. (As for that reason I found it, yes, I highly recommend it to anyone writing fanfic about Finnick Odair in a serious register.)
And it looks like I can get my Lloyd Alexander fixes there and save some car trips. I already tried out the Adobe app on The Truthful Harp (not a big favorite, but still).
Ahh, I'm happy. ^___^
