Please sir, can I have some more?

[ksmith]

More weekend, please? she asked in her best Oliver Twist/starving orphan voice.

The house smells of chicken stock aftermaths. Three quarts of water cooked down to two quarts or less, which has been distributed amongst some small freezer containers. If I had more patience, I would've let the pot sit, skimmed the fat, and filtered it a little better. but as things stand, the stuff is cloudy yellow ochre with a thin layer floating a top. I hope it's worth the trouble.

And that will signal the end of the complicated cooking until the first draft is done. Several hours of a Sunday gone, and while the roast chicken tasted pretty good, and the house smells nice, I would've been content with a tuna melt and a side salad. I like good food, but when pressed will take easy over fine. As long as I use whole grain breads and good tuna and dress things up with good cheese and add dill to the salad dressing, well, it's a damned good tuna melt and maybe a half hour of prep time and one dirty dish, maybe two.

Finally figured out the conversation in the tense scene that has been flapping in the breeze for the past three days. This Will Not Do.

This living room needs floor lamps like OMG.

And I think I'm kinda grumpy, which is SOP for a Sunday evening. I'm braving the fund raising spiel on Channel 11 to watch a Celtic Woman concert. After that, a 60s music special featuring groups like The Assocation and the Byrds, both of which I remember from appearances on the Smothers Brothers and the like.

My word, we old. Must go with the grumpy.

And we have a *GAH* One of the Celtic Women is singing "Danny Boy."

::mute::

Comments

[torrilin.livejournal.com]

If it helps any with the desire to write, I finished Endgame. I am happy with it, because it is a good ending (and it's not anything like the ending I would have imagined). The only problem is, now I have finished it and there isn't any MORE. So I am very sorry, but now I am peering at the draft updates, waiting for the day where you send it off to the editor. Cause then I have hope of MORE Kristine Smith books.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you liked it. And pondering what ending you would have imagined.

This ending isn't the original one, which worked on an intellectual level, but not a gut level. This one..is very circular, which goes with one of the points of the exercise, namely that people don't change.

[torrilin.livejournal.com]

I'm not really sure what I would have imagined. I think part of me was afraid that there'd be a "and they all lived happily ever after" ending. And that Jani would end up with John still. And then Jani would be *bored*.

That would not be a good ending for a book that was supposed to be The End.

This ending is a lot more "and after the bomb dust settled, they started cleaning up."

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

And then Jani would be *bored*.

The original ending was worse. In that one, Jani was Resigned To Her Fate. Doing her duty. It made sense, from a distance. Looking back, it would have made a better beginning than an ending. Jani Resigns Herself To Her Fate, Then Gets Over It.

This ending is a lot more "and after the bomb dust settled, they started cleaning up."

One sort of ending that I could never fit her into would be an HEA, because I sincerely doubt that Jani will ever be happy for long stretches of time. Too restless, and too much of a trouble magnet. The best I can do for the girl is Happy Enough for Now. I think she's good with that.

[chris-gerrib.livejournal.com]

regarding commercial / fundraising interruptions on TV, I have three words: Digital Video Recorder. Record, watch later, skip commercials (and Danny Boy, if need be)

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

OK, but the point of the exercise is to be able to watch something right then, not later. Later could be a month from now, by which time I've forgotten about it.

And there are some commercials I like.

[mcurry.livejournal.com]

Celtic Women? Yeah, they're a "Danny Boy" sort of bunch.

Now, later this month PBS stations are supposed to be showing Absolutely Irish (which you can read more about here (http://www.irishartscenter.org/absirishfilm.html)), which promises to be about a hundred times better, if you like Irish traditional music.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I didn't care for them very much. I thought the fiddle player was pretty good, but overall, flashy trumped music. I expected something more traditional.

I like Celtic music. Don't know much about it, but I like it as background. it can be nice and moody.

[mcurry.livejournal.com]

Well, if Absolutely Irish is carried by your local PBS sometime when you've time to have it on, you'll probably find it more to your taste, if your taste runs toward the more traditional.

And I'm not just plugging it because a friend of mine is one of the performers! :)