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Saint Clare November: 14,539 / 50 000 words
Hello Faithful Reader:
In keeping with and stealing I mean borrowing from the lexicon of Sips and Smacks (always a joy, current episode is with one of the Oasis Party organizers, do listen) I’ve cleared out the pile of laundry and popsicle sticks so Mija’s Room now has its own “Correction Corner” that I intend to keep empty. Here I intend to (weekly? monthly? who knows?) post edits made to posts or pages after they’ve gone public on the site.
Why do I need this?
Because the lovely reader (and author) Becca T. Riding of the Sore Is More blog is a super close reader. JAB, faithful reader and co-author isn’t far behind in the editor sweepstakes. Both of these readers are good at something I’m not: noticing detail. I appreciate such things and want to give them the credit and rewards they deserve.
Also, in a scene context, Mija loves1By “loves” I mean it hits EXACTLY on my kink buttons. More on that and my attraction to and love of pedants someday. being corrected.2My real-life self can get super defensive, arguing and sometimes becoming downright snappish. I’ve been working on this for years and am getting better, but it does sound like my academic self could use a bit of correction corner herself. One of the first stories Pablo wrote for is “Spelling,” which he based on “correcting” me for words I had misspelled in my early emails to him. Likewise, the story “Its” has Mija writing a line I still have running through my head “The possessive pronoun ‘its’ has no apostrophe.”
Also, as I’ve discovered working on fixing my stories on The Treehouse, (yes, it’s getting done, slowly) having a change log is a useful thing.
Why do you need this?
Because if you alert me to a needed correction (that is a mistake I’ve made), you can ask for a boon. What that boon might be is for you to decide, within reason.
Because some of you (ahem) have made mistakes in the comments and are annoyed by them (just so you know, they do not bother me a bit). You can ask me to make a correction to your text for you. The price? You “pay” with a boon for the blog. These can be insights, ideas, your own stories/fantasies about the characters.
Okay, so what have I done?
Added to Norse Cavalier‘s blog description to reflect my current favorite: an F/F story “The Business Woman and the Waitress.”
Story Changes:
“The MP Visits Saint Clare – Prologue – 11 July 1955“-
I changed the name of the Institute’s Head from Mrs Fielding to Mrs Perris. [Mrs Fielding is the Charrington’s housekeeper]
“Honor’s Game (Prologue through 3)” – Added the following text from the archivist:
From the Lady de Vries Collection, Blue Room Archives, Saint Clare’s School for Girls:
The papers presented here form part of what is now known as the Lady de Vries Collection. Though the correspondence was originally preserved among the private files of her husband, Edmund Alexander de Vries, 9th Earl of Darlington, its preservation and eventual deposit at Saint Clare’s are due to Lady Gwendolyn Randolph de Vries herself.
The exchange of initials — D. and H. — occurs throughout. Their precise origins are unclear; however, internal evidence suggests that these letters were both a private correspondence between husband and wife and, increasingly, a record of informal “exercises” undertaken by Lady de Vries during the late 1930s.
The editors have retained the original orthography and punctuation. A few later pencil notes in Lord Darlington’s hand are reproduced in grey type. Where the line between affection and assignment blurs, readers are invited to remember that the world beyond these pages was also shifting — toward war, secrecy, and a very different kind of education.
Let’s see how this goes!
- 1By “loves” I mean it hits EXACTLY on my kink buttons. More on that and my attraction to and love of pedants someday.
- 2My real-life self can get super defensive, arguing and sometimes becoming downright snappish. I’ve been working on this for years and am getting better, but it does sound like my academic self could use a bit of correction corner herself.