For I long for my liberty, for sweet liberty I pray

[lily_handmaiden]

So, tomorrow I have to go back to stupid JC Penney. You can look at my icon to see just exactly how I feel about that.

In my weeks of liberty here at home I have accomplished much. True, the deadline I set for my second Idyll, "Winter Festival," flew right by and now I'm kind of blocked on it, but I have written seven or so Requiems and posted two over at fanfiction.net. Go check them out if you'd like! Do an author search for Eridala and then hit the story "Requiem."

I also finished typing and sent out the first chapter of Pemberley today. Yay! I enjoy it, personally, but I'm kind of looking forward to getting to a point where I can do something very distinct and different with the story.

I have finally set Wuthering Heights in my Great Timeline. I had to arrange the chronology for that myself, and I may post it here at some point just because I feel like an accomplished scholar. The Brontes are giving me grief. I think that Jane Eyre must be set in 1830. There are a variety of reasons for this, mainly centering around the one actual date I could find therein being a Tuesday June 1 and the story being  "written by Jane" as a retrospective ten years after the main events. You want to know what Charlotte Bronte did just to be mean to me? She was all set to give an actual, concrete date and here is what she does instead: "On the 20th of October in the year ---- (a date some fifteen years previously)." DAMN YOU, CHARLOTTE BRONTE! You should take a cue from Jane Auten, who very conscientioiusly put the dates of everyone's birth at the very beginning of Persuasion.

Speaking of which, I got to go on a book shopping spree with a gift card I had and a discount my mom had and came away with Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, a volume containing The Watsons, Lady Susan, and what Jane wrote of Sandition, and a tiny volume with some of Jane Austen's juvelilia. Yay! My collection is (somewhat) complete! More on the juvenilia later; I'm really looking forward to reading it today or tomorrow once I finally finish with...

STONE OF TEARS! It now appears that about three quarters of the way through, the author realized that he had wasted a lot of time doing nothing in the beginning, and if he kept up at that pace, he was going to have the longest book in the history of ever and be way past his deadline. So for the last quarter he just skipped a whole lot of important stuff and then had characters recap it briefly, threw away some of his more awesome characters and plotlines with potential, and then had everything happen in about a hundred pages. Out of a NINE HUNDRED SEVENTY-NINE PAGE BOOK! Seriously, if I was this guy's editor, this book would not have gotten published, at least not in its present form. But I only have about thirty pages of it left and should finish it tonight, so... yay!

Also, today I felt like making a couple of Mansfield Park icons. I will be making more, but here are two:

 

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

They get better. Except, as I hear it, for CHainfire, which is much, much worse. However I'm only up to Faith of the Fallen, which is like 6.
-Jonah

[(Anonymous)]

I've got what I want to say about the polis massan requiem in my head, but I cant get my email to work cuz comp hates me... I'd put it here but thats weird. should work later.

marten

[lily-handmaiden.livejournal.com]

O...kay.
Marten? I hate your computer. Like, really hardcore.