Elizabeth Bear

Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 15:04 UTC

If you love a book, tell someone. Recommend it. Loan your copy. Send a link. Ask for it at your library. Word of mouth goes further than you think.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 15:16 UTC

hey congrats! That must feel really good in between the waves of exhaustion.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:48 UTC

Man it's an odd sensation having that piece of my brain back.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:46 UTC

I finished and published a short story I started in 1989 in 2019. There's always hope but only if you work on it. :D

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:45 UTC

I did, but the first line is different now

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:33 UTC

Finished a draft of this short story I've been trying to write since the 2000s today. It's called "The Angels of the Waters" but it used to be called "Steel" and if you read my livejournal you probably remember me talking about it there fifteen years ago.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:36 UTC

Oh goodness!

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:06 UTC

yummmm

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 11:56 UTC

You are so fucking ambitious! This is awesome.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 11:22 UTC

Seriously she does. The best I am managing is to make her ghost my POV character.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 11:21 UTC

They seem to have survived!

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 02:07 UTC

Definitely

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 23:53 UTC

It's all backstory!

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 22:40 UTC

Dracula is 1897. :D So I don't think my characters could have read it.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 22:36 UTC

that's neat though!

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:52 UTC

thank god, I avoided that one. :D

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:40 UTC

It's just part of his vampiric nature, what can we say?

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:38 UTC

Pretty much. It's a great big lampshade hung over the extremely dorky anagram names to justify their existence, I think, because the author was enamored of them.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:17 UTC

What is it with vampires and acronyms, anyway? Do you suppose it's related to the seed-counting thing? Some form of compulsive behavior?

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:15 UTC

Then I needed the second sandwich.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:14 UTC

Just reread the whole damn thing.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:13 UTC

So little of this will actually make it into the story, and yet it had to be done.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:12 UTC

Things I researched today: + 1870s vampires + Central Park architecture + Breeches roles in Victorian theatre + History of skyscrapers in NYC + Expatriate American lesbians in Rome, mid-19th-century

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:04 UTC

Also guess who accidentally left the ham on the counter, and the cats got into it. Well, they won't be getting their scheduled dinner in an hour.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:00 UTC

Did so much research and wrote five pages today. Also ate two sandwiches and a lot of fruit and drank not nearly enough coffee. It's wine o'clock now.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 20:57 UTC

<3

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