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

[ginny-t.livejournal.com]

Yay, draft!

Leah's listening to Tom McRae! *dances*

Yay, draft!