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July 19, 2006 Progress Notes:
Wedding Dress (working title)
Words today: 400.
Words total: 950.
Reason for stopping: I need to figure out why all sailors go to hell. I just realized they never told me.
Tea: Just water.
Munchies: Butter chicken and couscous.
Darling du Jour: "I'm a bad man," he whispered into her hair, his hands at her waist, his lips on her cheek, her throat, her collarbone. "I'll go to hell when I die."
"All sailors go to hell," she whispered, hoarse, and pulled him into her bed.
Tyop du Jour: N/A
Words MS Word Doesn't Know: unchaperoned
Mean Things: That the sailors go to hell, sati, the myopia of history, lots of dead stolen wives.
Books in progress: Tobias S. Buckell, Crystal Rain; Iain M. Banks, The Algebraist; Sarah Monette, The Virtu
The glamour: Went to a movie with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cszego, dolphin__girl, and ksumnersmith. We had a Cinnabon before it started.
It's amazing how sometimes I'll start something, run out of plot, and tuck it away on my hard drive. And then months or years later open it up and wham!, the whole story just floods in. And it's a different story than it used to be.
I started this back in January, I think. It'll be a better story now.
The other funny/amazing thing is how I seem to be...pushing out into the same worlds, just farther. "The Googleable Man" is a prequel for "Lagtime", in this month's On Spec; "The Earthly Ascension of Ducky Cheung" is a sequel to both. This one here is a sorta-sequel to "Sonnets Made of Wood". "Lost Wax" (upcoming in Realms of Fantasy sometime soonish) is the same world as "The Sorceress's Assistant" and "Rosemary, For Rememberance". I'm roughing out two more ideas that are in the same place as "Kimberley Ann Duray Is Not Afraid".
I've never really done shared-world before. It's usually...one story, one cosmology, moving right along.
Do you revisit the same place a lot? Did you do it all along, or did you just start one day?
Wedding Dress (working title)
Words today: 400.
Words total: 950.
Reason for stopping: I need to figure out why all sailors go to hell. I just realized they never told me.
Tea: Just water.
Munchies: Butter chicken and couscous.
Darling du Jour: "I'm a bad man," he whispered into her hair, his hands at her waist, his lips on her cheek, her throat, her collarbone. "I'll go to hell when I die."
"All sailors go to hell," she whispered, hoarse, and pulled him into her bed.
Tyop du Jour: N/A
Words MS Word Doesn't Know: unchaperoned
Mean Things: That the sailors go to hell, sati, the myopia of history, lots of dead stolen wives.
Books in progress: Tobias S. Buckell, Crystal Rain; Iain M. Banks, The Algebraist; Sarah Monette, The Virtu
The glamour: Went to a movie with
cszego, dolphin__girl, and ksumnersmith. We had a Cinnabon before it started.It's amazing how sometimes I'll start something, run out of plot, and tuck it away on my hard drive. And then months or years later open it up and wham!, the whole story just floods in. And it's a different story than it used to be.
I started this back in January, I think. It'll be a better story now.
The other funny/amazing thing is how I seem to be...pushing out into the same worlds, just farther. "The Googleable Man" is a prequel for "Lagtime", in this month's On Spec; "The Earthly Ascension of Ducky Cheung" is a sequel to both. This one here is a sorta-sequel to "Sonnets Made of Wood". "Lost Wax" (upcoming in Realms of Fantasy sometime soonish) is the same world as "The Sorceress's Assistant" and "Rosemary, For Rememberance". I'm roughing out two more ideas that are in the same place as "Kimberley Ann Duray Is Not Afraid".
I've never really done shared-world before. It's usually...one story, one cosmology, moving right along.
Do you revisit the same place a lot? Did you do it all along, or did you just start one day?
