After a Long While…Update
Wow, I haven’t posted since December. Happy New Year, everyone. So far 2010 has been pretty eventful. I got my master’s degree. I wrote a couple of stories. I painted my office. I crafted like mad.
I’m still looking for a home for “Cat” the novella I wrote back in December. To be honest, I haven’t been looking very hard, though, with everything else that’s been going on.
Last week, I wrote a short story based on “The Little Mermaid” called “Each Step Sublime.” I read the original story, which I hadn’t done before. And you know what? “The Little Mermaid” is one seriously effed-up story. Really. It’s scary and dark and heartbreaking, and not even the “positive” ending Anderson tacked on after the fact can make it less depressing.
I loved it. And hated it. And I knew I had to write my own version. So I did, and had a grand time doing it.
My reader cover, closed.
Another thing I have been doing is making random stuff. As an example, check out this cover for my Sony ebook Reader. Because I am a fabric whore, I made the whole thing out of silk. The fabric is black-and-white silk broadcloth. The ribbon is also silk, and has the added advantage of matching the new color of my office walls. It’s highly impractical–and I love it. 
The eReader cover, open.
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June 30th, 2010 at 10:13 am
You’re alive! *waves madly*
Hope you find a home for the story.
July 12th, 2010 at 1:50 am
Congratulations on your Master’s, and that cloth cover is gorgeous!
The reason I decided to leave the comment, however, is the Little Mermaid. Yes, the original is slightly depressing. But I would rather take that, than the Disney-fied version with its underlying message that beauty is more important than anything else. Like one of the posters on the site you linked to said:
“Most fairy tales involve some aspect of sacrifice, retribution, revenge or physical justice which is completely ignored in the Disney versions. This aspect makes the hero/heroines’ characters less flat, more dimensional. It also fits into the real world where one does not merely forgive and forget.”
July 13th, 2010 at 9:32 am
I’m so glad I found this post! I haven’t checked your blog in ages since the last few times I checked it hadn’t been updated. Today I checked my google reader for the first time in a month or so and that’s how I discovered that you’d posted.
I lurved “Each Step Sublime” and can’t wait for it to be published. And you know I think “Cat” will find a home.
Wow that reader cover is pretty! I’m dangerous around a sewing machine, myself, but I really envy people who can sew.