leahbobet | Just leave me your stardust to remember you by

April 20, 2007 Progress Notes:

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Words today: 1000.
Words total: 6650. Yes, that doesn't match -- I zorched about 250 words.
Reason for stopping: Quota, and I've been at this for three hours.
Liquid Refreshment: Water.
Munchies: None.
Exercise: 1 hour walking.
Mail: Sale! of a poem to Lone Star Stories.

Darling du Jour: Whitecoats never smile, Atticus told me, back in the days when me and Hide and Seed, who was a teenager but hadn't had much school, learned at his chair in the afternoons. You could tell the Whitecoats by the smoothness of the corners of their eyes.

Tyop du Jour: N/A
Words MS Word Doesn't Know: N/A

Mean Things: I just broke someone's heart. And mine with it.
Research Roundup: Gender-neutral pronouns.
Books in progress: Terry Pratchett, Men At Arms

The glamour: Shelved a bookstore today. And did all those glamorous bookstore things, like working haaard for the money--

Pushed for three hours tonight, circling the opening of this chapter looking for just a twitch where it might let me in, and nothing. Nothing nothing. So I wrote a bunch of the middle instead. And then some of the end. And then some of the end of the book.

That's the bit when another thematic thing clicked and I started bawling.

In better news, "Three Deaths", which is now the name of the Greek Thingy Poem that I read at the SFPA reading at WFC Austin, has sold to Lone Star Stories for their June issue. New market! Yay!

Also, Tangent has reviewed Chizine #30 and thus "Deer's Heart":

“Deer’s Heart” by Leah Bobet has to be the most twisted spin on “Sleeping Beauty” ever conceived. Inhabiting the fog-shrouded landscape between fantasy and horror, some pure horror enthusiasts might be turned off by this story, rooted as it is in shapeshifting and old-tyme earthen magic. The story closure, the evident thought with which it was constructed, I think will win over people who stick with it. It is very complex with several twists and turns, no mean feat in a story only eleven pages long. It is furthermore a carefully paced and structured story, very pleasing from a technical standpoint.

To which I reply: woot. Go go Russian werewolves!