new icons

I made some new icons of my mom's kitties. I'd make one of Bini but I don't really have a decent picture of him. Gotta get working with the digital camera. Anyway, this entry should have a picture of Mr. Softie on it ... he's so cute! :)

first lines

Trying out another new icon, and also, first lines.

thamiris started up a whole thing of fanfic writers posting the first lines to their stories and talking about which ones they like and dislike, and why. I figured I'd jump on the bandwagon, although I'm certainly not going to do every story I've ever written!

Before I look, I'll say that my sense is I used to do very utilitarian first lines -- very "setting the scene" type things, like "The captain walked onto the bridge" or "Xena woke up and looked around." But recently, especially as I got into Buffy fandom, I started doing more "punchy," grab the reader's attention, drop you right into the middle of the action type first lines.

That's my impression, anyway. So ( here goes... )

ugh, so tired

I wish I could write more but I'm just so very tired. I thought I had recovered, since I had two gloriously restful weekend days, but apparently not. Two grueling rehearsals in a row this week. I think everyone -- including our conductor -- has suddenly realized, "oh shit, it's only a week and a half till the concert!" So we're scrambling like mad to find times for extra rehearsal *sigh*. I'll probably type more about that later. For now: bed. Yes please. *whimper*