leahbobet | Jun. 8th, 2006

June 8, 2006 Progress Notes:

Untitled Sandbox Challenge Story -- now tentatively retitled to Kimberley Ann Duray is Not Afraid

Words today: 2750.
Words total: 5750.
Reason for stopping: Done and finished.
Tea: Dragonfruit sencha.
Munchies: Pizza.
Exercise: Good amount of walking yesterday; pondering going up to the workout room tonight.
Mail: Story bounce, query bounce.
Other Writing-Related Work: Sent out two stories and three poems yesterday. And I'm feeling a crit binge coming on tonight.
Darling du Jour: There was one that said not an Oreo anymore: it made me wince. But the girl carrying it had a firm smile on her face, and her eyes were calm and angry.
Tyop du Jour: N/A
Words MS Word Doesn't Know: unromanticized. Apparently this should be unromantic zed. Zedddd...is the loneliest letttterrrr...
Mean Things: Riots, rocks thrown at babies under one month old, ethics, actions taken to eventually save a marriage that may well serve to strain it.
Books in progress: Tobias S. Buckell, Crystal Rain; Martha Wells, City of Bones

The "sandbox" up there is not a literal sandbox, it's a mental one. I've been writing a lot of one kind of story lately, so

matociquala assigned me to write a non-fabulist science fiction story set in an institution of some sort -- pretty much the opposite of what I've been doing for the past year. I'm thinking part of my morose poutiness over that stagnant feeling I get has been about playing too much in the same sandbox, now. My brain feels all stretched and warmed up. It feels niiiice.

Also, please tell me if you feel that this title is a stupid title.

As well, things did in fact happen in the world while I was sick and hiding my snarly face from the world. (We are pleased to report food has stayed put for a good two and a half days now and energy is up higher than the level of a hibernating bear, so we are declaring No Longer Sick.) One of these was that Ideomancer's new quarterly issue has been posted, with stories by:

Keri Bas;
Ruth Nestvold;
and Yoon Ha Lee

and poetry by:

Tina Connolly;
Lane Adamson;
and Mikal Trimm

as well as an interview with Alan de Niro and five book reviews.

I personally loved with love four-sixths of this issue when they were naught but baby slush (the other two went to other people in the slush doling-out), thus you should go read it and enjoy. :)

Also, hop over to the