All over but clearing the rubble...

Scarab Part 13 is now ... well, the first draft of Chapter 13 is done. Out to beta, I guess, once Chapter 12 comes back from beta.

And there's nothing left after this but the epilogue...

...which I hope to write tomorrow...

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Niggling pet peeve.

Taking a break, reading a fic, and one of my hot-button grammatical raw nerves got stepped on.

"All right" is two words. I can't think of a single instance where "alright" works and "all right" doesn't. Is "alright" even a proper word? Anywhere?

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Whoops. Reopen entry.

Gakked (is that the word?) from dictionary.com's entry of "all right":

Usage Note: Despite the appearance of the form alright in works of such well-known writers as Langston Hughes and James Joyce, the single word spelling has never been accepted as standard. This is peculiar, since similar fusions such as already and altogether have never raised any objections. The difference may lie in the fact that already and altogether became single words back in the Middle Ages, whereas alright has only been around for a little more than a century and was called out by language critics as a misspelling. Consequently, one who uses alright, especially in formal writing, runs the risk that readers may view it as an error or as the willful breaking of convention.

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As I write, the draft of the last piece of "The Scarab" is winging its way through the Internet, destined for beta, and hopefully to be posted soon.

It's no longer a "work in progress."

*blink*

Holy maraca.

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Farscape fic rec

Don't know if others have seen it, but this is a frelling good fic.

Disruption, by huzzlewhat.

Set after "Fractures". A look at Moya in a stressful time, from someone they thought they'd left in the past.

You may need to read it several times. I dug it up again, read through it again, and missed Harvey's subtle cameo *again*.

It's worth it. Trust me.

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