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[julesjones]

Around a thousand words on the travel tale today, and 540 on the m/m/m. The latter was causing me some anxiety, as what had been intended as a sex scene as exposition had rapidly headed in the direction of sex scene as titillation. Not that I've got anything against titillation, but it could throw off the pace of the story. There is also the issue of how plausible it is for a thirtyish guy to be on his third orgasm of the day without pharmaceutical assistance. The fine gentlemen of #afp reassured me that they found it entirely plausible; and possibly more to the point, predatrix felt that it would be believable to the average romance reader as long as he wasn't just as eager on the third occasion as he had been on the first.

Lowish word count again as I was busy settingup the new toy, and supervising it through the creation of a System Restore disk set and then a backup disk set. I've only had a hard drive fail on me once, but that was enough. Also did a few minor security measures like turning off Autoplay. Autoplay is a really, really stupid idea because it will autoplay *anything*, including viruses, and making it impossible to turn off without messing around in the registry is an even stupider idea. As it happens one can download a utility from ms.com to do it, but I really shouldn't have to do that.

The port replicator arrived today, but hasn't been set up yet. As I don't have a spare monitor I need to transfer everything across from the desktop before disconnecting the deskptop form the monitor.

And the other distraction was playing around with LibraryThing for a bit, deciding to buy a permanent account, and then spending far too much time loading a couple of hundred books into my account...
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=JulesJones

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[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

See that first paragraph there sums up why I don't do romance. My characters would never get beyond the second round of sex without one of them jumping up to save the world/finish the paper he was writing/phone Russia for confirmation of her new theory/make sure the iron hadn't been left on/rush off to a lecture/phone the daughter's mobile to, you know, make sure she hasn't got into any sort of trouble in the past hour. Even when I sent my characters on a nice little break in Stratford to take their minds off the mystery plot and the people out to get them they spent most of their time shopping, punting and watching Shakespeare's history plays -- and one of the characters was 18 at the time.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

I can see why Library Thing is addictive!

A quick peek tells me that people who like Gerald Durrell also like Dorothy Sawyers. And Douglas Adams is everywhere.

Once I've got all the current committee work done (ha ha...) I might give it a try. Assuming the shoulder doesn't scream too loudly.

[tharain.livejournal.com]

For some reason the vacuumcat icon cracks me up.