Lazy Fourth

[jhetley]

Skipping the parade, skipping the cook-outs, probably skipping the fireworks tonight even though a half-mile walk would take me to good viewing. And no, we haven't hung out the flag. Probably "They" will be knocking on our door momentarily. I'll send you a (censored) letter from Gitmo.

Did get a few hundred words in on PENDRAGON AUTUMN this morning, with further lined up. "Beginnings are such delicate times." I'm still fine-tuning chapter one, just re-introduced Fiona prowling her wildwood cage and muttering dark threats on all and sundry. I'm glad I saved her for further use. As I've said before, good villains are hard to find. Still, there's this dragon who would _love_ to vary his diet with a morsel or two of Old One.

And I'll remind readers again that they shouldn't attribute a character's attitudes to the author. Brian says bad things about T. H. White and Malory and the rest of the prettified anachronistic Arthurian stuff, but he doesn't speak for me....

Comments

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

We're skipping the parade ... and I'll do the salmon inside to avoid the bugs... we have a mini-flag out on the deck, for whatever that's worth, and we will be skipping the fireworks and the crowds attendant to that. With luck, next year we'll be at Old Orchard Beach where attending the fireworks means leaning against the balcony and sipping a cold one in front of our room...

As to mistaking character's view for the author's view -- yeah, that's a problem for us from time to time.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Remarkably few flag displays in our neighborhood this year -- and we had a fair number of BushCo yard signs in the last election. Also, this is the first time since I've been here that one of the local realtors didn't go around every street in the area putting little flags at the end of each driveway.

We'll be attending a picnic hosted by friends, who have a decent location to see some fireworks. Were it not for that, we'd probably be skipping them too.