Monday Update 8-1-11
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ysabetwordsmithThese are some posts from the later part of last week, in case you missed them:
Mmm ... spaghetti sauce
Why you should buy local
Read about the star rays
Crowdfunded Fiction: New Projects
Read Lammas Recipes
Updates from Aether Dancer
New Icon for Monster House
New Paladins Poem Available
Crowdfunded Illustration: "Vampire in Chief"
Updated sketch for "Without Fail"
Due to last week's LiveJournal outage, a lot of things got delayed. Read the Friday Recap to catch up from that.
The August Poetry Fishbowl will be on Tuesday 2, with a theme of "corruption and redemption." Please help spread the word for that, since the LJ outage meant it didn't get the usual week's lead of advance notice.
Torn World writing update:
Approved as canon: "Squiggles: Excerpts from Nleimen's Journal," "On the Rocks," "Swept Away" (fiction). Back to me for edits: "Catch and Release," (fiction), "Seafoam Fashions" (poetry). Currently in front of the canon board: "Cutting Time," "Scars of Stone" (fiction) "Colorless," "Red Glass, Green Glass," "Hide Away," "The Ibabesh Bridge," "Scrimshaw," "Bitter Herbs" (poetry). Drafted: "Cutting Cords and Clasping Hands," "Like Ash Before the Wind," "Breaking the Ice," "From Dark to Bright," "Beached Fish," (fiction) and "The Hearsay Cafe," "The Colors of the Rainbow, (poetry). In revision at home: "Water Dance," "The Green Speech," "When the Wind's Teeth Sing," (fiction). Currently writing: "Raining Kittens," "Catch of the Day," "Reaching for the Moons" (fiction)
The microfunded epic "Enki's Messengers" is now complete. Yay! It's essentially a sidebar to the Sumerian myth "The Descent of Inanna," focusing on the kurgarra and the galatur created by Enki. Watch for an illustration to appear later, as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
haikujaguar offered to do a sketch if this one got sponsored.
There are three epic poems in microfunding: "Fiorenza and the Witch-Son" features Fiorenza the Italian herbalist musing about social roles and gender dynamics, at a time when there is NOT a major preternatural crisis going on. "Igor's Creature" is a mix of horror and science fiction with a large helping of sociology and a wry twist of humor. The epic poem "A Periodic Table of Elementals" is ahead of production.
The weather let up enough for us to visit the farmer's market on Saturday, at last. We bought ingredients for what became Zesty Italian Spaghetti Sauce (the sausage, alas, was not hot as I had hoped; and I wound up having to spike the sauce with crushed red pepper to generate noticable heat) and for the salsas planned for today's Lammas feast. Also, I love my large crock pot. After filling the freezer cartons, I realized that I'd made 9 meals out of a day's work and just over $20 of ingredients.
Mmm ... spaghetti sauce
Why you should buy local
Read about the star rays
Crowdfunded Fiction: New Projects
Read Lammas Recipes
Updates from Aether Dancer
New Icon for Monster House
New Paladins Poem Available
Crowdfunded Illustration: "Vampire in Chief"
Updated sketch for "Without Fail"
Due to last week's LiveJournal outage, a lot of things got delayed. Read the Friday Recap to catch up from that.
The August Poetry Fishbowl will be on Tuesday 2, with a theme of "corruption and redemption." Please help spread the word for that, since the LJ outage meant it didn't get the usual week's lead of advance notice.
Torn World writing update:
Approved as canon: "Squiggles: Excerpts from Nleimen's Journal," "On the Rocks," "Swept Away" (fiction). Back to me for edits: "Catch and Release," (fiction), "Seafoam Fashions" (poetry). Currently in front of the canon board: "Cutting Time," "Scars of Stone" (fiction) "Colorless," "Red Glass, Green Glass," "Hide Away," "The Ibabesh Bridge," "Scrimshaw," "Bitter Herbs" (poetry). Drafted: "Cutting Cords and Clasping Hands," "Like Ash Before the Wind," "Breaking the Ice," "From Dark to Bright," "Beached Fish," (fiction) and "The Hearsay Cafe," "The Colors of the Rainbow, (poetry). In revision at home: "Water Dance," "The Green Speech," "When the Wind's Teeth Sing," (fiction). Currently writing: "Raining Kittens," "Catch of the Day," "Reaching for the Moons" (fiction)
The microfunded epic "Enki's Messengers" is now complete. Yay! It's essentially a sidebar to the Sumerian myth "The Descent of Inanna," focusing on the kurgarra and the galatur created by Enki. Watch for an illustration to appear later, as
haikujaguar offered to do a sketch if this one got sponsored.There are three epic poems in microfunding: "Fiorenza and the Witch-Son" features Fiorenza the Italian herbalist musing about social roles and gender dynamics, at a time when there is NOT a major preternatural crisis going on. "Igor's Creature" is a mix of horror and science fiction with a large helping of sociology and a wry twist of humor. The epic poem "A Periodic Table of Elementals" is ahead of production.
The weather let up enough for us to visit the farmer's market on Saturday, at last. We bought ingredients for what became Zesty Italian Spaghetti Sauce (the sausage, alas, was not hot as I had hoped; and I wound up having to spike the sauce with crushed red pepper to generate noticable heat) and for the salsas planned for today's Lammas feast. Also, I love my large crock pot. After filling the freezer cartons, I realized that I'd made 9 meals out of a day's work and just over $20 of ingredients.
