Thud, figurative and literal

[leahbobet]

July 18, 2007 Progress Notes:

"Miles to Isengard"

Words today: 3000.
Words total: 8600 MS Word, 10,500 SMF.
Reason for stopping: DONE. *nails corpse to the wall*
Munchies: Spaghetti with basil pesto sauce.
Exercise: Walking.
Mail: Nomail.

Darling du Jour: No darlings today. Or at least I'm not going back to the file to hunt one out.

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

Mean Things: Your friends getting killed and/or selling you out. Being reminded that your new ethical paradigm is not as tidy and useful as you thought.
Research Roundup: Travel directions galore, flora and fauna of central Idaho.
Books in progress: John Milton, Paradise Lost; Ken MacLeod, The Execution Channel

The glamour: Today, being a class day, was largely glamourless.

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Novelette finished (!) and sent out to The People for critique and kicking, and I feel a bit like I've been kicked myself. Part of which is mild caffeine reaction and some upcoming deadline issues -- whenever I have a paper due I do a certain amount of thrashing beforehand -- but this afternoon just took it out of me. Writing is hard. Harder than it used to be.

But I have Finished A Thing, and no longer have to get on my own ass about not actually doing any writing while styling myself a person who writes.

Now, beer and the very difficult judging of the "X for Y" contest.

Comments

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

congrats on finishing the novelette and sending it to The People!

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Hee, thanks. Soon I can revise it and send it to all five markets that consider novelettes. :p

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

wait, there are five of them?

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

*laughs to hide the tears* ;)

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

I suppose it could be worse. It could be a novella...

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I keep a ritual suicide blade sharpened and ready for that eventual day.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

I keep watching the word count on my current WiP with trepidation. It's starting to look like it will end up somewhere between 20 and 25K.

I may need to borrow that ritual blade...

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Just remember, unlike standard advice, it's across, not vertically. *g*

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Just hold the blade and cut like so and novella will go away

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

And the novella will go away (I blame the it on the Reverend!

[ringwoodcomics.livejournal.com]

Just "novella" is fine. There is only one, and its many tendrils seep into the lives of writers the world over, to sap joy and feast on despair.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Or more likely there are many, but only one of them will see print this year due to magazine budgets. :p

[ringwoodcomics.livejournal.com]

Yes, that certainly is the literal interpretation that destroys the joke. Thank you. >:(

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

We live to serve. :D

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Ah! Novellas are Lovecraftian monsters. That makes perfect sense.

[hominysnark.livejournal.com]

Yay finishing Things!

[monkeyman.livejournal.com]

Done! Good deal, done is always a good thing! *applauds*