Iced Thai coffee. Eeeevil. But good.

It's a beautiful afternoon in this New England neighborhood: the sky is blue, the temps a comfortable upper 70's, the breeze hinting at crisper weather to come, and yet the foliage is all still fresh. I went for a bike ride in the park, and wished I'd brought my camera to catch the red of the Rock against the blue of the sky and the green of the leaves and the blue-slate of the river....

Temps for this week are supposed to hit a high of 83. I shall, mid-November through mid-March, look back on this and remember why I love New England.


Working on the line edit. Working out the specifics of a number of stories in my head, none of which are ready to come out and play just yet. Doing laundry, and carding a full kitten's worth of fur off the felines. Ah, the wonder and excitement of my life.

Elsewhere, someone's "black belt in origami" made me snort said iced coffee. I think I need to cut back. Even for me, there's a limit to how much caffeine I can handle in a 12-hour period. *twitch*

In meanwhile, I have a Question to post to the masses, but the "screen all" comment function doesn't seem to be working for me. Any suggestions?

A Note to the LJ-World

You may or may not think that the entire world wants to hear every detail of everything you say.

You may or may not be right.

But when posts get more than 50 lines long? Especially when it's a meme or quiz or movie review? Cut-tag that sucker.

Thank you.

SftSoP

*sigh* I just hit a whopper of a SftSoP in the line edit. One of the major characters knows something -- something that's very important to the storyline. His job requires him to share his fact. He doesn't.

Okay, there are ways of handling that. He's not sure it's a valid fact (distrusts the source). He is obsessed with a theory that this evidence contradicts. He is trying to keep it from being known, in order to set a trap. Any of those would work -- but the author doesn't do any of those things. Instead, we simply see him thinking 'fact A doesn't fit with the theory.' The opportunity to establish character motivation and plot complexity bypassed, and instead we have a weakness in the book.

*peels post-it off pad, tags it onto page in question, moves on*