Can you tell on I'm on vacation this week?

[rabidsamfan]

Between spurts of housecleaning I've been trying to get myself to work on "The Errand Lad" and to prime the pump I've been reading and reviewing at the MEFAs, but it's a frustrating slog. I've pretty much worked through all of the stories which had no final reviews that I have the background to read, (someday I'll read the Silmarillion, but this is not that day) and now I'm skimming through drabbles and vignettes a lot, but I've just barely managed to read and review a tenth of the stories that got nominated.

Sometimes I look for authors I haven't reviewed yet, sometimes I wallow in old favorites (which are quick to compose reviews, for, I grant you!) Sometimes I search for "Sam" in the descriptions, although that gets me "same" too. *sigh* I never thought I'd suffer from a surfeit of Cormallen stories! But I keep coming back to it, although I should be getting for my sister's visit. I'm too lazy to cut and paste and count characters before I hit the "final" button and keep discovering that I shorted someone a point by fewer than ten characters, and I'm just hoping no one thinks it was deliberate.

I've discovered some lovely stuff, though. A story by Karri where Sam asks Legolas about Elven magic, drabbles that bring characters I hadn't considered to life, angles on Arwen that shed new light...

*sigh*

Oh, well... Just had a plotbunny bite for "The Errand Lad..." Got to go now...

Comments

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're on vacation; you deserve it. :)

Ruby
reading even if she isn't always replying

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I know the feeling. I dove through that Tim/Dick story you posted the other night and then was wordless... Still am! But I dreamt of it.

[frodobaggins252.livejournal.com]

Maybe you two can manage to come to King Richard's Faire together -- I couldn't spend all day with you, but I'd love to meet fellow hobbits -- and I have comp tickets :-D

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

Good luck with "Errand Lad" - and when it comes to the MEFA's, I tend to hide under the next desk available. I have only reviewed well-known stories so far and I hardly find the time to do more...*blushes*

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I've reviewed a lot of drabbles and vignettes. It makes the numbers look good, but it didn't take that much time.

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

Good luck with your writing!

Wish I had more time for fun writing as opposed to work-related writing.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Mostly I'm cleaning. Taking breaks now and then so that I don't go batty, but mostly cleaning. Thank goodness for Claritin. If it weren't for that I'd have had four or five asthma attacks by now instead of only one.

(If you don't bother the dust, you don't breathe the dust...)

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

Oh, I understand that. We're still unpacking our Ft Lauderdale apartment down here. :)

Ah, Claritin. So glad it'd over the counter now.

And Silmarillion is hard reading, anyway. I haven't picked it up in about 5 or 6 years - The Hobbit and LotR I make it through about once yearly. Still haven't really gotten into HoME yet.

[elendiari22.livejournal.com]

*feeds Errand Lad plot bunnies lettuce*

:)

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

yay! Vacation!! Enjoy it :-)

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Oh, *eeeee*, wow. Thank you. (I hope the dreams weren't depressing.)

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Depressing? No, not really. Flickers and glimmerings mostly, and some of them very *ahem* warm... I know almost nothing about Tim, having not read the book in years, so I can't comment on him, but the details were incredible.