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[owlmoose]

My collaborators keep praising me for my superior writing speed and then beating me to the punch with wondrous new chapters. This amuses me.

Seven is up and Eight is largely drafted. I wish I could be working on the latter as we speak, I know what I want it to say, but I am at work and it is at home. Alas. Regardless, I have hopes for finishing it tonight or tomorrow morning.

After that, it may be a few days before I have time to write much -- I have a houseguest coming on Friday evening and staying through Sunday night, and she will be in town through Tuesday. At the rate everyone else is going, the rest of story will be finished by then, with Paine languishing many chapters behind! Oh well, there are worse things.

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[kjswritinglog.livejournal.com]

I saw the review; thank you. I'm glad you're enjoying the backstory hints, it's a great deal of fun to figure out where to work them in.

I've read your Thirteen three times over already and am still digesting it before I review it formally. But I want to let you know right away that you have picked up exactly on everything I am trying to do with Paine. I asked before if you wanted me to tell you why she wants him; I think I can now safely say that you already know.

As for the other, I am mostly kidding. ;) And I can't imagine anything dulling my enthusiasm for the Confessional project right now.

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[kunstarniki.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness for that last sentence. I must thank you as well for giving me the key to making Nooj more human, less of the Vulcan/machina creature. You have created a Paine he can permit beneath his shell, one he can consider equal to what he is. Without that special quality in the woman, I would have been at a total loss to let him open up as much as he has. PS: I had fun slipping in his awkwardness about the physical manifestations of his reactions to her.

Re: I

[kjswritinglog.livejournal.com]

Yes, I imagine you did. :) Poor Nooj, always wanting to maintain control, so often betrayed by his own mind and reactions...