Thud: Sugar
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leahbobetJanuary 21, 2009 Progress Notes:
"Sugar"
Words today: 1300.
Words total: 19,850.
Reason for stopping: I was banging my head against a brick wall until I found the scenes that actually wanted to talk, and now those scenes are written. And as ever, I am up too late.
Books in progress: Robert Graves, The Long Week-end; John M. Ford, The Last Hot Time.
The glamour: A bunch of post-sale stuff (contracts, bios, etc.), workshop work, Ideo work, the scouring ofthe Shire my inboxes, knitting away on those charity auction gloves. First pair's nearly finished, and I'll cast on the second tomorrow, I think.
This novella is also almost finished in a way that means I may well have to write 8,000 more words, but the entirety of it is mapped out in my head. There are no more surprises. I have performed the Ceremonial Deleting of the Working Notes From the File to mark this occasion so they can stop fudging around with my total wordcount.
Also, another blog review for "Miles to Isengard", this one from John's Reading, which found it, alas, the most confusing of a "generally interesting" issue. I am getting the feeling that what I was trying to do here perhaps didn't work, but I will hold out for some more datapoints and see.
On the other side of the reviewing spectrum, the September Ideomancer is reviewed at The Fix, and it's pretty overwhelmingly positive. Go Ideots! Go authors!
Also, in the interesting reading camp, Walter Jon Williams on (if you read between the lines a little) the difference between writing from primary source and from the secondary source of other novels, writing the tropes.
And with that, bed.
"Sugar"
Words today: 1300.
Words total: 19,850.
Reason for stopping: I was banging my head against a brick wall until I found the scenes that actually wanted to talk, and now those scenes are written. And as ever, I am up too late.
Books in progress: Robert Graves, The Long Week-end; John M. Ford, The Last Hot Time.
The glamour: A bunch of post-sale stuff (contracts, bios, etc.), workshop work, Ideo work, the scouring of
This novella is also almost finished in a way that means I may well have to write 8,000 more words, but the entirety of it is mapped out in my head. There are no more surprises. I have performed the Ceremonial Deleting of the Working Notes From the File to mark this occasion so they can stop fudging around with my total wordcount.
Also, another blog review for "Miles to Isengard", this one from John's Reading, which found it, alas, the most confusing of a "generally interesting" issue. I am getting the feeling that what I was trying to do here perhaps didn't work, but I will hold out for some more datapoints and see.
On the other side of the reviewing spectrum, the September Ideomancer is reviewed at The Fix, and it's pretty overwhelmingly positive. Go Ideots! Go authors!
Also, in the interesting reading camp, Walter Jon Williams on (if you read between the lines a little) the difference between writing from primary source and from the secondary source of other novels, writing the tropes.
And with that, bed.
