Coldreaders, start your engines...

Since last post, the holidays have hit. And passed.
They were sweet this year, with lots of chats and cookies and fudge and community events. I enjoyed it. Dad found a present for free. It's worth more than all the ones I got for him put together. Dumpster diving rules!
Now 2013 is upon us. All you witches out there may share my viewpoint . . . lucky 13!
Certain things, like the concert I attended with Dad and my Lopez "family", were so lovely I felt it a shame to leave them behind in 2012, and I hope to find ways to get more of them.
Other things, I won't say what seeing as I don't feel they deserve it, are good and gone, oh, so gone. (Some were so, like, yesterday even years ago.)
And still other things, like gymnastics and editing, have either resumed . . . or just go on! And on, and I either don't mind, or am glad.

I'm ironing out the last nitpicky plot bits in Edge (it always takes longer than expected, but because of the extra time, you get increased richness) and, surprisingly, liking it. Feeling good about it, such that I can't wait to send it out to all you readers for feedback! I'm shooting for the Full Moon for completion, at least "completed enough" since that's how it is in the early stages of testing!
If I miss the Moon, well. I'll keep going and still hit a star.

Rereading L'Engle's Many Waters. It's not a new book, and yet . . .
Fragments! Lots of fragments! Yay! Fragments are okay!
It's not fine to have fragments in the writing of a newspaper, but it's fine in a book. Gives you an edge. Pure ideas. Straight to the brain. Fun, too --- a kind of crackle to it. Fragments help convey the feeling or action of a situation without making the reader plod through a grammatically perfect sentence, although I still believe it's a good thing to know how to craft one. Even some books today have reached a level of structure and quality, or lack thereof, that makes my gut literally heave from word to word. Uuegh.

Illustrations continue on Edge . . . maybe some of you readers will get treated to a few in the "cold copy"! That's about it. Except, everything I do would be easier if my apartment wasn't 35 degrees F. But then again, if it's cold, it's clear; and then we get some sun. . . .