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Dec. 7th, 2006 10:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhienellethI am already so behind on my Christmas shopping/jewelry making, and it's all NaNo's fault, I tell you!
Actually, I didn't write a word yesterday. I was too busy with actual work. (Notice I didn't post at all either.) And then figuring out the next three or so chapters and exactly how they're going to lay out. I knew already, in a very general sense, but now I know specifics. So today, back to the writing. Not so much with the Christmas shopping. That's starting to worry me, just a bit. I need to make some time and get that done.
Oh, and the RL people in question had the mostly predictable responses to the chapter in question, in case anyone was curious. In case you'd like more specifics on that:
Actually, I didn't write a word yesterday. I was too busy with actual work. (Notice I didn't post at all either.) And then figuring out the next three or so chapters and exactly how they're going to lay out. I knew already, in a very general sense, but now I know specifics. So today, back to the writing. Not so much with the Christmas shopping. That's starting to worry me, just a bit. I need to make some time and get that done.
Oh, and the RL people in question had the mostly predictable responses to the chapter in question, in case anyone was curious. In case you'd like more specifics on that:
I got a high pitched, screechy phone call from V telling me she loved it and 'didn't know I could write like that'. It was all of two minutes long and full of her usual fake "I really really loved it" stuff that she does. L and I once counted her really really's and very very's when she was trying to convince us of how happy she was with something she so obviously didn't like. We now exchange silent looks whenever she uses either phrase. So I'm not sure what her use here indicates, since usually it's a sign of her trying to force sunshine and cheer when she's feeling anything but. I'm thinking she was so uncomfortable congratulating me (who she's always viewed as having a puritanical, almost nun quality of innocence and virtue for reasons that utterly escape both me and L) on the smut I wrote that she had to resort to her fallback postion of really really.
We were expecting V to call L all freaked out about it, and then either be embarrassingly over-the-top about it with me, or never even mention it. To our shock, she has yet to even mention the chapter to L, yet she called me. So, see? We are not all knowing after all. She can still surprise us after all these years. (Truly, this never happens. We've gotten so good, we can predict her behavior for an evening of roleplay from five minutes of conversation beforehand, down to a freaking science. So it's shocking that we were wrong this time.)
L2, on the other hand, called L at work right after reading the chapter to rave about it, but has only left a one line comment on the chapter itself. No call for me, no e-mail. I am not sure how to feel about this. L asked me, when I called her after talking to V, how annoyed I was by the screechy overly excited phone call- only slightly annoyed, or really annoyed. To our mutual surprise, I told her I wasn't really annoyed at all. At least, I said, V called me. Which is more than I can say for L2. I don't understand this strange tendency to rave to other people about how much you love something you read (which V has done consistently with the entire book until now), but then to completely ignore the author altogether, especially when they happen to be a friend. You know them. Why not at least drop them an e-mail? Instead, you call up friend #2 and tell her how good you thought it was. This makes no sense to me.
Maybe I am somehow unapproachable to my friends. Other than L, of course, who seems to have no issue telling me anything at all.
Anyway. So, I imagine the response to smutty chapter #2 - not yet written - will be slightly less shocked.
We were expecting V to call L all freaked out about it, and then either be embarrassingly over-the-top about it with me, or never even mention it. To our shock, she has yet to even mention the chapter to L, yet she called me. So, see? We are not all knowing after all. She can still surprise us after all these years. (Truly, this never happens. We've gotten so good, we can predict her behavior for an evening of roleplay from five minutes of conversation beforehand, down to a freaking science. So it's shocking that we were wrong this time.)
L2, on the other hand, called L at work right after reading the chapter to rave about it, but has only left a one line comment on the chapter itself. No call for me, no e-mail. I am not sure how to feel about this. L asked me, when I called her after talking to V, how annoyed I was by the screechy overly excited phone call- only slightly annoyed, or really annoyed. To our mutual surprise, I told her I wasn't really annoyed at all. At least, I said, V called me. Which is more than I can say for L2. I don't understand this strange tendency to rave to other people about how much you love something you read (which V has done consistently with the entire book until now), but then to completely ignore the author altogether, especially when they happen to be a friend. You know them. Why not at least drop them an e-mail? Instead, you call up friend #2 and tell her how good you thought it was. This makes no sense to me.
Maybe I am somehow unapproachable to my friends. Other than L, of course, who seems to have no issue telling me anything at all.
Anyway. So, I imagine the response to smutty chapter #2 - not yet written - will be slightly less shocked.
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Date: 2006-12-07 06:43 pm (UTC)I think you are very approachable, and have since I knew you for all of five minutes.
:)
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Date: 2006-12-07 06:55 pm (UTC)You're right. People are odd!