Chaucerettescs

So-o-o

I told Katelyn I'd post a link for LJbook, which allows you to export your journal into a tidy PDF (when you can actually get through to the server, since it's usually always busy), lest Livejournal decides to definitively take a shit.
I don't think it will. As large as the site is, it's seems more likely it'll be bought.

Anyway:
Make an LJ Book

Also, you can export your journal Here But you can only do a monh at a time, with no comments, into an often crap textedit document.

BONUS MATERIALS! :D

I thought I'd share with you some of LJ's finest, lest the plug be pulled, things I would be heartbroken to lose:

Shoebox_Project: Zip of 26 parts in PDF format
Technically, we've already lost Box, since the Russian hacker deleted all the posts and Rave and Jaida have not yet put them back up (and may never,given the circumstances).


The Adventures of Gerard, Boy Princess of the Ocean, and Frank, The Italian Gentleman's Son who Loves Him! (Zips of all the .jpgs)
Book 1
Book 2


If I think of anything else, I'll put it up. For now I'm off to do more book research, which is mostly on 1995 bombing of the Paris Metro and the 2005 London Bombings (both events play roles in the books). In other words, I'm off to go get nice and depressed.

Btw, I found out that song titles, or any title for that matter, is not protected under copyright law. People can try to sue if it's a very well known song or if the title is contained within the lyrics (which it isn't in the case of swacit). So it's possible I may be able to keep the title.

What to call the second one is beyond me. It'd be nice to stay with the clock motif. Lol, Katelyn suggested "Hit Snooze" which cracked me up. I love when she's snarky.

Right, so lately I've been making myself miserable trying to think of a possible new title for Swacit (since "Somewhere a Clock is Ticking" is the name of a Snow Patrol song). I'm not sure you're allowed to name a book after a song that isn't yet public domain, even though bands steal names from books all the time (My Chemical Romance comes from an Irvine Welsh novel and Steely Dan is the name of the dildo in Naked Lunch, which, heh...)

The trouble is I now have the title so interwoven into the themes of the book that I don't want to change it and even if I did, wouldn't know what to change it to.

How about...

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill... and Came Back Down Dead.

Wait... shit...

Chase's suggestions: Someplace A Clock is Ticking or A Clock Ticks... Somewhere
AHA! I see what you did there.

Lol, I'm screwed when it comes to naming the second one.

I did go ahead and change Adge's last name to Landau. It needed to be more Jewish. I've been writing a scene with his grandma, btw. All I'll say is that it includes a good deal of Yiddish and the line "Mama, please don't rub Melanie's uterus." Good times.

When Katelyn was over the other night, we started weaving plot bunnies which I'm going to post here lest I forget them:

( Kippers, Confession, Portraits, Marzipan, and Sex Talks )

Lol, I love riffing with Katelyn about this sort of crap. I always end up laughing until my throat hurts. Often, the voices are the best part, not that you can tell here. (btw, the priest occasionally sounds inexplicably like Yoda).

P.S. I've decided I still want to do the Ben/Lena book. Tonight I discovered tha when Paris was bombed in 95, the first station to be hit was literally right across the street from where I had them living. I am intrigued.