Furigana, controversy and the coming of critiques

I discovered one distinct plus to having received a comic geared towards a younger audience. Because it is assumed that most of them haven't learned all their kanji yet, the publishers include small kana characters alongside to help reading called furigana. Very useful for someone like myself who only had the barebones of kanji. I really need to refresh my memory on the alphabets though. For fun, I tried transcribing part of the "Saint Seiya" cover page and realized I had found the title and author information, rather than a chapter title. Clearly the "Read or Die" manga were intended for an older audience, because they don't use furigana so I'm out of luck.

I should be reading stories for CVS critiques instead. I'm up to bat tonight for the first time since the Cinderella story. I'm looking forward to it in a nervous kind of way.

I nearly found myself posting my first wank report on FW last night. I'm not exactly sure why I held off. Too nice probably.

( Del Rey manga controversy )

That wasn't so bad... really.

CVS meeting was an interesting mishmash. We've welcomed Fearless Leader onto the world of LJ. We had three stories critiqued, including my story "White Out". I definitely have enough food for thought on how to improve the story further. I knew the ending had major problems, so having concrete "this needs work" helped a thousandfold. Some of the changes will be easier than others. On the bright side, the issues seemed less severe this time around, so maybe I found the really glaring ones. We also brainstormed in little groups over our current projects. I have some definite ideas of what needs developing and planning. The book on writing mysteries may help me as well.

*sighs* Now I can't help trying to imagine what a plot noodle looks like. Is it linguine or is it shells? Macaroni or angel hair? (I have very weird icon ideas sometimes... almost as bad as the "I saw three ships go sailing by..." one for Firefly.)