Fic uploads

Still tinkering with the wording of A Sword Outwears Its Sheath to avoid some undesirable repetitions (a word like 'fickle' is really too distinctive, unfortunately, to use twice in the same fic to refer to two different people) -- of course, altering the wording at this stage of publication now involves synchronising four different copies for every change I make, which is why I really ought to have held off a day before uploading to FFnet. I *always* end up making extra edits immediately after publication, and the Dreamwidth upload is supposed to be the one where the need for those becomes apparent... but I needed to go up to the library anyway, and didn't want to waste the trip.

I did remember to add the cropped Athos-pic to the story via the Image Manager on my second trip, but forgot to further investigate what was going on with the categories :-p But I shall have to make a third trip now in order to synchronise the chapter anyhow...

I also decided that I might as well bite the bullet and upload the second chapter of "Ashes" as it currently stands (very lightly edited down from the original typed version), simply because nobody will ever go actively looking for work in that fandom, so the only chance of getting any eyes upon it at all is to have it sitting next to a recently-updated fic in my list of works, such that somebody just *might* take a look if they are checking up to see what else I have done. The chances of their getting beyond Chapter 1 are naturally even more vanishingly slender... but looking at that story I actually feel that it is better-written than this one (probably because it has more dialogue in it, which was always my strong point!)

Received another probably-AI review, this one quite poetic:( Read more... )

More seeds

I was given some 'purple flower seed' (delphinium, salvia, cosmos, cornflower, scabiosa, phacella, nemophila), and emptied out the 'old' rocket box into which to plant it -- transplanting the rocket into a deeper pot, although it's mostly bolting. The new rocket is just about starting to develop.

Pricked out a few of the rudbeckias from the coconut compost tray, where I noticed that after coming through en masse in the hot weather they have been damping off in patches. However there is no shortage of them as yet...

Sowed some more sage seed, a lot more thickly this time on the assumption that it has very limited viability.