You raised me like a bruise. I'm bleeding still.

[leahbobet]

(This song's for you.)

October 30, 2008 Progress Notes:

Above

Pages today: 24.
Pages total: 264/264.

264 / 264 (100.0%)

Reason for stopping: Draft.

Munchies: Glenlivet and toast. Even when I can probably afford it, I can't bring myself to buy a $125 bottle of scotch.
Books in progress: Geoff Ryman, The Child Garden.
The glamour: I can has paycheque. Paycheque-having is a soothing thing.

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I really botched the climax. Like, really. Ripped it down to the foundation and started again, and I think I've rebuilt it without the flinch that was making everything warp and go weird and contradict itself.

If not, I have people to tell me so. And I'll just do it again until I get it right.

For the meantime, at least, Above is now off my desk. Since it's been on my desk for a year and a half, this is a bit weird to say the least. I have some pretty firm deadlines on what needs doing next. Hopefully I start on that this weekend.

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Piles and stacks of reviews, some of them two weeks old:

Writing Every Day seems to like "Bears".

calico_reaction is, alas, less than keen on "Bell, Book, and Candle".

Whereas Free SF Reader seems to like it okay.

The Fix doesn't think "Kimberley Ann Duray Is Not Afraid" is one of my best, but the reviewer does namecheck me as "a great up-and-coming writer", so that's pretty cool.

And there are several comments about "Furnace Room Lullaby" up on Pseudopod, but they're mostly about the sound effects and balance.

Comments

[hysteriachan.livejournal.com]

Congrats on finishing! (And yay for Tom!)

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I had it in my head tonight. :)

[joeboo-k.livejournal.com]

"Bears" is strange fun. Haven't read the new SH story yet, though.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Glad you like. :)

[kriz1818.livejournal.com]

Yaaaay draft!

[ginny-t.livejournal.com]

Yay, draft!

Leah's listening to Tom McRae! *dances*

Yay, draft!

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on fixing the climax! Splash out some of that paycheque on oatcakes to go with that scotch? (I love whisky and I love toast, but something feels wrong about that combination...)

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Hee. It was less a deliberate combination than "Hey, let's have some scotch."

...

"An hour later, I am hungry. Let's make some toast."

[monkeyman.livejournal.com]

What are you thinking of Child Garden? I'm thinking I may read it again during November (I only do re-reads during NaNo, nothing new) if I have time, the characters still linger in my thoughts ...

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I will make a note to hurry, then; I think the copy I have is yours. *g*

It's...interesting. I had trouble getting into it at first, and when I started the second half I had trouble getting into it again. But it has the flavour of a dystopian London.

[monkeyman.livejournal.com]

See, I completely forgot about that. :D No worries, though, I can read anything; during NaNo, I barely notice.