Jul. 2nd, 2008

July 2, 2008 Progress Notes:

Saturnalia

Words today: 600.
Words total: 600.
Reason for stopping: That's all the notes I have.
Munchies: Yogourt.

Darling du Jour: Lovers reconcile; lost ghosts make their final parting. In the second hour between midnight and one there is a thin suspension. Not the wild suspension of Saturnalia; that is anarchy, and anarchy is less a reprieve from rule-making and rule-taking than a crook in their direction. In who makes the rules, in who takes them. But tonight the hour of one a.m. gets a rewrite; tonight if you screwed it up, you can do it all again.
[NAME] picks the second hour for this reason also: he wants no second chances.

Words Matthew Won't Admit to Knowing:
Mean Things: A serious body count inside the prologue. And, some might argue, having a prologue. :p
Research Roundup: Saturnalia the festival. Types of gears. A few reference photos.
Books in progress: Charles Stross, Saturn's Children; Patricia Briggs, Blood Bound; Robertson Davies, The Lyre of Orpheus.
The glamour: It is much too early to have glamour.


It woke me up this morning. Or more accurately, kept me from sleeping, since I'd been reading until almost dawn and then when I finally closed my eyes to try and get a few hours, my brain started patiently piecing this book together until I sat up, head buzzing, with the structure and the loose plot and not just the first line of the prologue but the opening of the first chapter too, and that's what tipped it over and made me put in the contacts and turn on the computer to work.

They still need names. I only have one name, and it's possibly the least important character in the room at this juncture. But I now know how the machine at the heart of the city and Saturnalia-the-festival and Not!Trent and his frock coat and two washed-up meth-addicted musicians and the one repeated hour a year fit together. And I am a little in love.

Above is due to wrap up inside a week. I guess I know what I'm working on next. :)

Thud: Above

Jul. 2nd, 2008 09:17 pm
July 2, 2008 Progress Notes:

Above

Words today: 1500.
Words total: 62,000 MS Word, 75,250 SMF.
Zokutou word meterZokutou word meter
75,250 / 85,000
(88.5%)

Reason for stopping: Quota for tonight; not going to 2k, as I'm feeling a bit shaky.
Munchies: Chicken.

Darling du Jour: "Why do people do this?" I ask her at the end, when I'm crying almost on the paper and have to put it away, set it far so my tears don't spot the page and tell someone, anyone, every Whitecoat that brushes paper with their glove-covered skin that someone read their secret thoughts and deeds and sins and wept.
“They just wanted to help her be normal,” she says, simple, and cups her hands together, holding on to her own private impossibilities.

Words Matthew Won't Admit to Knowing: None tonight.
Mean Things: Nothing actually hugely mean tonight. They're all facing up to what they need to do very bravely. All are good little toasters.
Research Roundup: Whether "Angel" was a name in semi-common use in the 1950s. It was.
Books in progress: Charles Stross, Saturn's Children; Robertson Davies, The Lyre of Orpheus.
The glamour: Much and plentiful job-applying, support mail, and the Scouring of the Inbox. The orcs just keep coming back in there, I swear.


Napped into the early afternoon after getting the start on Saturnalia, and the rest of the day was a vaguely underslept weird heavy thing of less-than-perfect motivation. Also, I found myself stuck in a loop of recursive dream-logic involving werewolves, which I had to break before I could wake up properly. This is what you get for reading paranormal fantasies until dawn.

Still feeling sort of woozy, and I have to be up early tomorrow anyway, so probably heading to bed shortly. One wonders what kind of dreams reading Robertson Davies before bed will stir up. :p

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