Like, so TOTALLY cool.

[rj_anderson]

Can you tell I've been watching the "Valley Girl" extras from the HOUSE S2 DVDs?

Anyway, look at the shiny pretty thing that is Writely! I've been wanting something like this for ages!

Other super-nifty things include the very exciting news, kindly mailed to me by Hottt Cheryl (do I have the right number of t's? I've lost track of how many she's earned, now), that naominovik's wonderful (wonderful, wonderful, and did I say, WONDERFUL?) Temeraire books have been optioned by Peter Jackson. In spite of the fact that I hated PJ's LotR, I am enough of an optimist to think he might do a good job with the project.

I was going to write a whole separate entry, maybe over on my otherwise useless Vox blog, reviewing His Majesty's Dragon and papersky's delightful Tooth and Claw, as they are both fantasy novels about dragons and both strongly influenced by nineteenth-century literature, and much could be said about either of them. However, I would rather give both books my endorsement now, however briefly, than wait for an opportunity to wax eloquent about them that may well never come. So here is my review:

I didn't think books about dragons could get any better than Tooth and Claw, but Temeraire a.k.a. His Majesty's Dragon in particular is the most delightful thing to happen to me in a literary sense since I read The Beekeeper's Apprentice (and we all know what came of that). Anyway, both Walton's book and Novik's are superb. If you haven't read them, GO NOW.

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[rose-in-shadow.livejournal.com]

Anyway, look at the shiny pretty thing that is Writely!

Writing.com (http://www.writing.com) is similar, though, admittedly, I've only glanced at the Writely website. Looks interesting though.

Isn't the news about the Temerarie books great? I just posted about it too, though not as coherently :-D.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Writing.com isn't the same thing at all, actually. Writely isn't a forum for writers, it's a utility to let you write drafts and save them online, and easily export your stuff to (or import from) Word. It'd be perfect for writing fic and having other people beta-read it, for instance.

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the Invisible Man Virtual season (which I write for) has just started using Writely, and it's making our mulitple-beta and discussion process SO much easier.

[rose-in-shadow.livejournal.com]

When I'm away from Word, I write stuff directly to Writing.com. It's more than just a forum--but, yeah, I see the difference. Nifty. I might have to take a closer look.