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caecelia_ (caecelia_) wrote,
@ 2011-11-28 19:39:00

Entry tags:

meta: elective affinities, meta: fests

not quite dead / EA / fest extensions
Happy belated Thanksgiving!

This is but a brief update. A surprising number of people have asked me about Elective Affinites lately, which is all the more amazing as I haven't updated it in months. Thank you so much for your kind words, for your encouragement! I have not given up. The whole story is outlined and is something I think about often; the actual writing is what is so time-consuming. As soon as I have a bit more time, the next chapter will be up. (On that front, I finally submitted my thesis last week, but other academic concerns have popped up unexpectedly and are overwhelming me at present. I also made myself ill in the process of finishing the thesis.)

Bad health, poor planning and academic pressure have made for an unproductive combination in other arenas as well: To my extreme embarrassment, I have had to ask for extensions for both of my fic fest contributions. And just looking at my comment backlog - not to mention the number of unanswered e-mails in my inbox - makes me feel faint.

Sincere apologies. I don't deserve your patience.

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caecelia_
2011-12-01 12:31 am UTC (link)

Ah, please forgive me this horribly late response! (Also, forgive me for not friending you back right away; I don't check this journal enough.) I am so pleased to meet you, and look forward to getting to know you better.

Thank you also for your extraordinary words about EA. I am so close to the text that I only ever see its glaring mistakes and roughness and inconsistencies; it's lovely to hear that you're enjoying it despite all that. ♥

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abrae
2011-12-01 01:33 am UTC (link)

You know, there's probably a mistake or flaw in there somewhere, but I'm officially besotted with the story. I just left a (mostly incoherent) love letter-cum-essay on what I love about it at AO3, but one thing I forgot to mention was your prose - beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Between the present tense and your lovely parenthetical asides, I can't think of enough good things to say.

Grad school makes you late for stuff (and I'm always just flattered when I'm friended back!) - no worries there. :)

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