Thud: Above

[leahbobet]

June 2, 2008 Progress Notes:

Above

Words today: 1500.
Words total: 41,000 MS Word, 51,000 SMF. We have breached 50k, captain. :)
Reason for stopping: Nice tidy number. And it's not 2am yet, but it's getting there.
Liquid Refreshment: Water.
Munchies: Apricots, bocconcini.

Darling du Jour: There's no cold like shadow-cold, the touch of something not-alive and hurting and hating on your skin. But there's cold near it. There's cold that gets to your skin from the inside coming on out.
Words Matthew Won't Admit to Knowing: Nothing today, but he did own up to quarry.
Mean Things: Bad Idea Seance is gonna go bad. Also, that the secondary characters didn't actually put their lives on hold while you were off doing your thing. Oops. :p
Research Roundup: N/A.
Books in progress: Textbooks. I have to have Othello done for Wednesday.
The glamour: Cough, cough, woe is me.

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Hit a signposted scene tonight and dragged it into the fabric of the rest of the book, which...triggered one of those moments where you're working into the loose and sort of wiggly bits that you sorta-know happen, but aren't sure of the particulars of or where those moments aim. And then a gear turns and the teeth lock, or a thread tightens just so, and the whole book draws tighter, clicks over one step closer into realness and coherence and interrelation.

There is something ridiculously satisfying about feeling a story pull tight.

So some of tonight's verbiage is skipping around on the end scenes, fleshing them out a bunch. Every time this happens I go add some more to the end, because more comes clearer about what needs to be there. The end-end just got a little less skeletal, and there is something I need to string through better if it's going to rear up and hit just so in the very last line.

(Were you here, in front of me, I would show you with my hands.)

I wonder how the hell people worked with my kind of process before a word processor, all jumping and skipping and changing one's mind. I imagine it involved a lot of notecards and cursing.

Comments

[csinman.livejournal.com]

Your du jour is great!

Also: one of those moments where you're working into the loose and sort of wiggly bits that you sorta-know happen, but aren't sure of the particulars of or where those moments aim. And then a gear turns and the teeth lock, or a thread tightens just so, and the whole book draws tighter, clicks over one step closer into realness and coherence and interrelation.

What a perfect description! I love seeing others describe feelings just like mine, as I'm rather lazy, and now I'll never have to describe this myself.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

It's easier to do with my hands. Talking about structure in words is...always a bit of an adventure 'round here.

[sora-blue.livejournal.com]

I love those moments when it clicks together--and that darling!

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Occasionally the boy does throw me a bone. ;)

Thanks!