365 Photos - 1/365 (Water theme)

[byslantedlight]

Thank you fiorenza_a who suggested the theme of water for the first week of my 365 project (which is where I post at least one picture a day, for 365 days... *g*) Trouble is - it rained today, and I was going to go out, but actually... So not a very exciting first photo, but it is a photo! It's a start! In other news:

Reading - The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (for book group next Thursday.) I wasn't sure at first, but 100 pages in I'm happy to keep going and find out what happens. *g* It's set in the Congo, which makes me think maybe I should find one of those travel-the-world reading challenges, this year!

Fanfic
Meg Lewtan's Bird in a Gilded Cage beside my bed, but I've remembered what happens in general, and sort of stalled. Read the first story in O. Yardley's Septet zine last night (technically very early this morning!) - nice enough - and I may read the next one tonight, which is a sequel to Two Lovers. Except that I wasn't keen on Two Lovers, it sounded more like O. Yardley than our lads, imnsho, so I might skip it to the next story in the zine... We'll see. *g*

Writing
Erk - a bit of helpful research this morning, does that count?

Telly
Missed the beginning of Dickensian cos I was making fudge, but the rest was still good. Sherlock was a bit more good - anyone else watch?! If I'd thought about expecting something, that wouldn't have been it... *g*

How're you doing, this first day of 2016 (well, second I expect, by the time I hit post and you read this...)?

Comments

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Interesting picture. It'll be fun to see what direction you take with this particular subject.

I've never been able to really get into O. Yardley's stories. Somehow, they never quite sound like the Lads to me.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Well, I was hoping for prettier pictures in general, but I guess with 365 days they're not all going to be like that! If it stops raining I might find the energy to get out and find some prettier water... *g*

I do agree about O.Yardley's stories - there was always a touch of her voice, and the lads were just a bit too posh, but it wasn't quite enough to make me stop reading. Her more recent fics have just pushed slightly too far away for me to cope with - Two Lovers (the canal zine) and A Lovesome Thing (older lads). If the writing's solid to start with, and the lads are mostly right, even if just a bit off, then I'm okay - but if more specific things strike me and keep striking me, then I'm lost... which is a shame, cos I've liked alot of O.Yardley's older stories, and I wouldn't at all mind more like that... *g*