The Bibliophile's Library

"No Such Thing as Absolution," the next story in the "Adaptations" 'verse, will be online tomorrow.  I'm posting today because I want everyone to appreciate my beta reader, resourceress7, who made this possible.

How?  With twenty-nine hours total of line-by-line discussion and analysis, in face of sleep deprivation and my overzealous love of semicolons.  We brainstormed.  We debated.  We had so much fun.  And this piece is now as close to perfect as it can be made.  Together, a linguist and an English lit major, alike in obsessive attention to detail, have determined that every word is in its correct place and pulling its weight.

You should also know that I never attempted medical fic before "Adaptations" because I knew I'd get caught up in researching the individual leaves on the trees, and the forest would never be written.  In her function as co-researcher, resourceress7 organizes everything we learn about SCIs and the management thereof, enabling me keep it straight.  So I can pull medical fact into the stories I write without any appearance of effort, but I have tables and timelines making my 'verse go round.

I'm a good writer.  Having a good editor is improving my work considerably, and I'm grateful for the opportunity to grow.

Sorry for having disappeared for a while: processing the finale took longer than I'd have liked.

I could devote a few paragraphs to the infuriating illogic of the thing (beginning with the terminal thymoma and ending with House's magical escape from infernal doom), but others already have, and there's no point in replicating their efforts.  I will say I'd hoped for something better than a parade of hallucinations and a reprise of the perennial arguments, but I never expected to be satisfied: my narrative preferences diverged from the canon writers' long ago.

1. I'm working on that holiday gift-fic for phinnia. (Yes, the one that was supposed to happen last year and apparently took exception to the fact.) It's set within the dæmonverse AAU and features House and Wilson spending winter solstice with Chase. So far, it's coming along very nicely: warm, funny and bittersweet in turns. It'll even be done by Christmas!

2. I've produced several (as yet unposted) dæmonverse AAU song reworks.

3. Still working on that large-scale AU of ruby_took's Werewolf Saga, which focuses on House and Chase's father/son sort of relationship and asks the question of what it would take to get Chase to agree to turn, and the implications of that decision across his life. (Not even estimating an end date for this one.)

Happy holidays to all my readers: may your celebrations of the season, whatever forms they take, be joyous.

--D.

The Vague Large Thing has germinated and is growing a plot; it promises to be at least the length of its predecessor.  I've written the first draft of the prologue and am currently deep in R&D, which is wonderful as I have something of an obsessive love of research.  Some details have been ironed out as far as setting goes: those of you interested in the 'where' of most of the story are welcome to have a look here.

I'm putting the sonnet (Chase's PoV, by the way) under a cut, as interpreting it will give away one or two plot details.  Anyone who wants to comment with a guess is more than welcome to do so.

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Hello, all—it's been a while.  Real Life has been busy for me and promises to stay that way (dammit), but even though the time should really be going elsewhere, I manage to write a little.  Lately I've been busy finishing the beta for the latest installment of ruby_took's Werewolf Saga, titled "With Our Eyes Upon the Moon."  Anyone who enjoys House/Wilson with a supernatural twist should read.  (Note: I have a Large Story going AU from this point in the Saga that I will finish and post eventually.  It and everything related to it, as a collective, is the Packverse.  Feel free to speculate about it in comments: I'll enjoy watching you guess.)

In other news: a dæmonverse AAU ficlet hit me over the head today and demanded to be written; it's done in rough form but requires editing through eyes not made bleary with the fact that it's past four in the morning, so look for that at some point within the week.  It covers Foreman demanding House hire a fellow through Chase's appointment to the position (with a phone call by Rowan Chase in the middle), and I really enjoyed writing the intricacies of an interview including two bodies' worth of body language per being.

Next in the queue of Things to Be Written is the gift-fic I promised phinnia : it will happen.  I cannot say precisely when, but it will happen; this I vow.  (The prequel to "Principles" will also someday happen, though after the gift-fic).

Finally, a bunny of frightening proportions is niggling at me: I make no promises, but I may someday return  to the dæmonverse AAU and a post-"Principles" world to tie up loose ends.  Don't start cheering yet, though: if this does happen, it'll be months distant at the very least.

—D.