Friday Night and I'm shattered.

So I'm hoping a nice on LJ will perk me up.

1. I have SIMSfanfic!!! Someone - I won't name her name until she says I can, has done a SIMS2 family of the people in my latest novel, and I'm all ... like bouncy and squeeful about it. What worries me is that the wife might start eyeing up the boy next door when that's the HUSBAND who should be doing that. still.. squeee!!! Now I want SIMS2 or better still a SIMS3 which can do historical SIMS so I can do Standish. Hey! Marketing opp! Standish - the expansion pack!!!!

2. I had a rejection today from Shadowed Realms, for "Breathe". And as rejections go it was pretty bloody nice.

( encouraging! )

3. I've been dogsitting for D4 this afternoon, as my mum's pretty ill and can't cope with him 24/7. By gum that dog is a GENIUS. He's ten weeks old and he already comes and retrieves and today I thought, to make mum's life a bit easier I thought I'd teach him to sit. I didn't hold out much hope, as he's such a marauder and has the attention span of a gnat but he went and proved me completely wrong. I only had to push his bottom down three times, push - treat push treat push treat and then every time after that he came running in from whereever he'd been and come and sit in front of me!!!

4. I guess a lot of you may have seen this at some point, but I only found it today, it's an interview with Jason Isaacs and Orlando Bloom pimping "Black Hawk Down" Not only is it hilarious and even has quite a lot of slash in it (and references to naked Jason...) but it cements what a character actor Jason is. I don't think I've ever seen an interview with him before and his normal voice surprised me. Not only that, he's an excellent mimic, doing impressions of American soldiers and even one of Ridley Scott. Diamond.

( Under the cut )

almost (as you can see) speechless

Cripes. This will be a bit ranty as I've had a crap day and I'm troughing my way through a wine box.

I'm the third person on my flist to stare in horror at torquere_social's announcement that they don't like 1st person, won't accept any omniescent or head hopping.

*incoherent biting of keyboard*

That's fine. It's their publishing house and if I had a publishing house I'd accept what I wanted to, but these "fashions" do drive me insane, and it's such NONSENSE. If omniescent stuff was not what people wanted they wouldn't still be buying classics by the bucket load. If first person was not what people wanted they wouldn't be buying them - and do you need me to write a LIST of incredibly successful first person POV novels starting from the earliest novels? Austen is so popular still they've just put her works into Chick Lit covers over here. (which I'm not coping with, to be frank)

( Austen Chick Lit )

OMG. Is Cassie claire going to send me a cease and desist order??? *evil giggle*

They also say that if you ARE going to write 1st person between 2 people then you should alternate between chapters and make it clear to the reader (who obviously isn't intelligent enough to work it out for themselves) and I think that's a horrible idea. I'd hate to be batted from one 1st person POV to another. I beta-ed the most horrific fic once that did that, and it was the most confusing mess I'd ever read.

I did head hopping in Standish. I've done it in Transgressions. I've sold to a print market. If you do it subtely enough, then you can do it. I don't necessarily want to wait to know what the other person's opinion is for five thousand words. It IS possible to do in the same chapter.

However. There is nothing WORSE than having "Elizabeths POV" or "John's POV" written at the top of each section, because all that does is make the reader feel fucking stupid.

But all is possible in the best of all possible worlds. All you need to do is do it well.

Listen to me, world. There is no spoon!