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By exactly one month.

One month ago today, I celebrated my birthday. In Denmark. With my dear sickpea,

frigg. Here is our Denmark trip in photos and a little video featuring a charming Danish birthday tradition.

Jelling Stones, rose bushes with enormous rosehips lining the roads, very cool Danish cemeteries, enough hay bales to make any Impressionist painter swoon, and churches with model ships hanging from the ceilings, these are a few of the things we saw...

as well as the impressive sand sculptures in Søndervig.

We really enjoyed our time with

frigg and C.

And my birthday was definitely one of the highlights!

The kagemand...me, if I were a cake. :D

But if ever you celebrate your birthday with

frigg, be warned: She has a big knife!

Watch on YouTube

Gakked from

barbarienne at

frigg's persistent insistence:

The rules:

1. Go to page 77 (or 7th) of your current ms
2. Go to line 7
3. Copy down the next 7 lines – sentences or paragraphs – and post them as they’re written. No cheating.

Pg 77 of The Bitter River, in all its roughness:

After the boys were particularly rowdy in class, the Persian tutor made them write a report of why they had been acting up and how they might comport themselves differently in the future given the same set of circumstances. My father wrote a strictly accurate account of the morning, but Ahmed’s copy, like his speech, was peppered with falsehoods. Five times the tutor made him rewrite the account, threatening him with a lashing for each fib, but Ahmed could not relate only the facts.

In a fit of rage, he wrote in French, to the same effect. More lies, more lashes. However, when my father jokingly said that the Persian tutor’s English was poor and he would surely not be able to catch any errors in Ahmed’s telling, a curious thing happened. Ahmed was able to tell the truth. He burst into tears, and it took my father all of a day to understand that he was happy and not upset.

Current Music: Greg Laswell - Comes and Goes

I took yesterday, as planned, to start reading TTD. And you know what? I like it. My writing is more than competent; I've moved myself to emotion, and I already know what is going to happen. The pacing is good for the kind of story *I* like.

I had a few surprises--almost first-time reader discoveries--in a few places because I can changed some names and terms at the last moment.

Even though I said I was only going to read, I can't help but fix typos and delete flab here and there. (Coming back after my break, I see more of what you mean,

magicnoire, about trimming back on the "style." I'm also keeping my eyes open for repeat of info. Sometimes I have to add just a sentence or two, like I did for you

mindseas, to hopefully make Casindra slightly rounder.) These are some stats so far:

Pages read: 362/890
Pages deleted: 6
Duh! deletion (or one of, since I didn't really try to memorize this stuff): He wore a tattered brown robe, which resembled the garb of Sehma’s Emissaries, and a cape of ragged furs ~~slung around his shoulders~~.

I know that one of the biggest things I will have to do is tweak the opening chapter. In the past, I got a lot of feedback to the effect that I give the reader a slew of info there. I'll wait, though, until I read the crits to make any changes. Maybe someone made some good suggestions on how to better it.

Anyhow, I mostly wanted to do this update so I could look back on it and say, "Hey, at one point I liked my book."

friggkeeps insisting that I probably won't want to speak to her after I read her crit. With that threat in mind, I need to have a reminder that hack I may be, but not a hack without bursts of confidence, misplaced though they may be.

kmkibble75, at least, is good at bolstering my spirits. It'll be you I turn to, bud, when I can't speak to that evil sickpea any longer. :P

Let's see what today's reading yeilds...

Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: Le Mouv Radio

Yesterday, during my lunch break, I told

frigg about the new glass figurines we got at the gallery, figurines which are not to my taste. She laughingly said, "At least you didn't break any."

"True," I agreed.

I went back to work and...broke a figurine.

I'm just saying.

Lover
I'm not telling your actual score. Hmph!

The Lover (or Poet) is a rare type. (S)He has a rather contradictory nature. He is completely unselfish and generally regards others above himself, yet somehow in his effort to please, often ends up doing things that appear completely self-centered. The Lover loves people and strives for acceptance, but at the same time withdraws from the world. Lovers are authors, artists, philosophers, and musicians. They live unorthodox, unconventional, or even chaotic lives. Lovers experience the highest highs and lowest lows.

The Lover's complement is the hardened, unhesitant Warrior.

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 37% on Confidence
You scored higher than 82% on Creativity

Link: The Medieval Archetype Test written by isayso on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

For those of you who do not know it,

frigg is E.V.I.L. I'm not sure what I ever did to her, but she seems to be engaged in a personal crusade to make me ~~waste~~ spend my time on things besides writing (can anyone say, "Livejournal"? How about, "Girl Genius"?)

Now, I have a few hypotheses as to why this is. I will spare you the convolutions of my logic and present here for your contemplation my final conclusion: She is on a mission to spare the world from my prose.

So, I suppose the question becomes: Is she *evil* in wanting to thwart me, or is she a *saint* for thwarting one for the good of many?

Despite her nefarious schemes, I am pleased to report that I got 27K in January, 2K over my target, and all that with sick days and a novel crit. Here's to hoping Feb. is just as productive now that I must needs read Girl Genius thrice weekly.

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