I forgive you. Can you forgive me too?

[leahbobet]

October 23, 2008 Progress Notes:

Above

Pages today: 21.
Pages total: 237/264.

237 / 264 (89.8%)

Reason for stopping: The scenes I just did were hard. This one is going to be superlatively hard, and it's past midnight.
Tyop du Jour: All my own stupid, to think I could hit and kick and scare the one that hurt her and that'd make it okay. Cure Suck. Oh, the difference a vowel makes. My Freudian slip is showing.

Munchies: Grilled cheese sammiches, and later, caramel cream rooibos.
Books in progress: Geoff Ryman, The Child Garden.
The glamour: Dayjobbery. Which was a bit fraught today, because I felt like death this morning and don't quite know why, and that made me kind of fussy-twitchy all day.

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This song properly belongs to The Enchanted Generation, which kicked at the inside of my head like a fussy baby pretty much from the minute I said in public tonight that I wasn't doing anything writery for the next two weeks, because my brain habitually likes to make a liar out of me. And I did get a few scene outlines out of it, one right near the beginning and one about halfway into the book, but that was it; no voice yet, no real grasp on most of the characters aside from a certain sensibility, bits of mood and colour that sort of hang out in the peripheral vision of my brain.

So I went to work on Above to make it jealous.

I can't say that Enchanted Generation is jealous, but this seems to have worked out anyways. Most of chapter ten left to revise, and the epilogue. And then we're done, for now. Until the nice people tear the thing several new orifices and then hand me a needle and thread. *g*

Bed now. There is dayjobbing tomorrow, and frantic housecleaning to go with it, as hawkwing_lb is stopping by on her way to WFC early next week and it does not do to let other people know how I live in filth. :p

Comments

[willowfagan.livejournal.com]

I loved The Child Garden so much! Seriously amazing. What do you think of it so far?

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I'm just starting the second part, and...I really like it. It took me a bit to get into -- and I bounced off this book once before, and was persuaded to give it a second shot -- but once I got to Rolfa and Milena actually developing a relationship I was enjoying it.

Ryman sometimes disturbs me immensely (Was hit a couple triggery buttons) but I'm finding he's always worth coming out for.

[willowfagan.livejournal.com]

For me, some of the middle parts of The Child Garden lagged, but after that it gets better and better.

I read Was so long ago that I don't really remember it. Also, 253, which became a chore to read after a while. I definitely want to read more of his stuff though.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Air is excellent. There's a point where...well, it takes a sharp left that leaves what the end actually means as an ongoing matter of debate. We have theories.