Arwen's Blog

I've decided to broaden the mission of this "official" blog. I started it mainly to focus on libraries when I was getting my MLIS and shifted it to include teaching and general academia. I'm going to shift it again to include more of my personal views and updates on my original creative writing and sci fi/fantasy organization, StarMerrow.

What I won't include here is, broadly speaking, my "fannish" interests, unless they cross over with academia/criticism. There will be some X-posting between this and my more fannish journal, so apologies to those who have friended both.

On that note, writing the Continuation universe, shipped from t'other journal:

I have resolved that life is too short to spend it writing things I don’t want to write. No more guilt about dropping projects/stories halfway. One of the things I do want to write at some point is Ghanior’s story. He’s been one of my favorites of my original characters forever, but I’ve never gotten down anything about him beyond real juvenalia (the short novel I wrote when I was about 20-22--it’s crap).

I’m not sure where to go with his story, though, so I’m going to ramble about it under the cut.

( Writing Ghanior )

For those interested in either the Sengoku Period in Japan or scholarship on homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan, informal book reviews at t'other journal:

Kawanakajima
Saga of the Samurai: Shingen in Command
Male Colors