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Despite my bravado, I was feeling a bit down after reading the hateful review yesterday. Thus, the universe interceeded on my behalf. First, I had a lovely time hanging out at a coffeeshop with my friend [livejournal.com profile] jiawen in which she nearly convinced me of the merits of writing fanfic in my own universe (it could happen.) Regardless, we had an excellent time chatting about Minicon and fangirliness.

Then a royalty check arrived in the mail.

The very best revenge, my friends, is living well.

Later, Mason and I had a fun time at Kuk Sool Wan, despite the fact that I SWEAR TO GOD/dess, that as soon as my groin muscle starts feeling better, Sa Bum Nim decides it's an excellent day to spend the _entire hour_ working on cartwheels. I did pretty well, but right at the end I twisted funny and pulled it again. Sigh. But in some good news, I think I might finally be remembering some of the techniques thanks to the patient teaching of Will JKN (who normally scares the crap out of me, but who is secretly a very sweet young man.) Regardless, we're actually going to be going a lot this week because, as I said earlier, Mason is testing for his blue stripe on Saturday. I also just signed up for a topics class in "falling" for Friday. I'm going to be an excercise queen between all this KSW and Japanese bokken which starts Wednesday (tomorrow! Whoot!)

I also spent some time yesterday working on another proposal. For years Shawn has been bugging me to write up a series idea we had a long time ago based on the idea that somewhere out there is a "hoarder" who is actually Pandora, of the famous box. I got most of a plot formalized while waiting for [livejournal.com profile] jiawen to meet me so we could figure out where to go (the original coffee house we were going to meet at is SO IRISH [how Irish is it?] that they were closed for Easter Monday.)

Let's hope today is as productive, eh?
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I came across this review this morning: Requires Hate: Archangel Protocol. Actually, I was warned away from it by [livejournal.com profile] naomikritzer, but I read it anyway.

I'm not posting this because I need sympathy. I'm posting this to curb the impluse to click on the "reply" button at the bottom of the review page. I don't actually want to engage, because it seems one of my biggest sins in the reviewer's eye is my atrocious dialogue and, frankly, I don't have a big argument there. My partner knows that if she wants to see me blush and cringe, she can read some passages of ARCHANGEL PROTOCOL out loud. I actually also agree that my generic heroine was a bit generic and sometimes so stupid as to be a plot coupon. (I got that complaint in writers' group. I ignored them to my own peril.) I also liked Rebeckah enough to make her a p.o.v. heroine in a follow-up book.

But, I also happen to still believe there are moments of pure brilliance there.

The thing that really, really had my trigger finger itching was the commentary. The glee that is shown for the fact that my series is out-of-print made me want to say, "Hey, you haters don't get revenge after all. I'm still writing! Published several books after that one! Ha!"

But of course, all this would hit when I'm feeling rather vunerable in that regard. I haz no contract currently, and I'm even kind of feeling like I will never be a master at slash because I'm not very good at teh p0rn.

So sad.

I promised Shawn that I'd have a proposal done today, so I'm going to have to put my head down in a minute and get serious about that.

Ah, well. In other news, we had a nice Easter dinner with Shawn's brother Greg's family. We have skipped a lot of these family gatherings over the last several years for various reasons, but it was good to go. Mason had a tremendous time. I managed to not feel too awkward.

Mason will be testing for his blue stripe this weekend, so we're going to try to step up our KSW goings. I also get to start Japanese bokkon (sword) this Wednesday, and I'm seriously looking forward to that.

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