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leahbobetMarch 1, 2009 Progress Notes:
Above
Pages today: 15.
Pages total: 91/371.
Reason for stopping: Chapter 3 is down.
Munchies: Chili with sour cream, and my new best thing, water + wild rose petal syrup + blackberries. Really, try it. Best thing.
Books in progress: Robert Graves, The Long Week-end; Sean Stewart, The Night Watch.
The glamour: Mostly getting the issue up and dealing with whatever kinks needed to be worked out around that. Also, housecleaning, a grocery top-up, and making said chili.
(Well, and I also revised the first two scenes of "Sugar" today, but I'll hold off on making a formal metrics for that until tomorrow.)
I imagine this will be a great week of revising. I will revise Above some more, and I will revise "Sugar", and I will revise random things on the street that may be in need of revision. Perhaps there are street signs out there that are too long or need better grounding detail or something.
I used to really, really dislike revising. But I've been doing it on this book for so long, comparatively, that it's just old hat now. This is the way a writer gains their toolset: attrition! :p
Oh right. Two more reviews that showed up this weekend of Previously Published Fiction You May Have Known:
The Fix is not so keen on "Miles to Isengard":
And SFSite does like "Bell, Book, and Candle":
So that, folks, is about even for the day.
Above
Pages today: 15.
Pages total: 91/371.
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91 / 371 (24.5%) |
Reason for stopping: Chapter 3 is down.
Munchies: Chili with sour cream, and my new best thing, water + wild rose petal syrup + blackberries. Really, try it. Best thing.
Books in progress: Robert Graves, The Long Week-end; Sean Stewart, The Night Watch.
The glamour: Mostly getting the issue up and dealing with whatever kinks needed to be worked out around that. Also, housecleaning, a grocery top-up, and making said chili.
(Well, and I also revised the first two scenes of "Sugar" today, but I'll hold off on making a formal metrics for that until tomorrow.)
I imagine this will be a great week of revising. I will revise Above some more, and I will revise "Sugar", and I will revise random things on the street that may be in need of revision. Perhaps there are street signs out there that are too long or need better grounding detail or something.
I used to really, really dislike revising. But I've been doing it on this book for so long, comparatively, that it's just old hat now. This is the way a writer gains their toolset: attrition! :p
Oh right. Two more reviews that showed up this weekend of Previously Published Fiction You May Have Known:
The Fix is not so keen on "Miles to Isengard":
Sometimes I read a story that I just don’t like and I feel guilty about it, because I feel as though I should. That pretty much sums up my attitude to Leah Bobet’s “Miles to Isengard.” I feel that Bobet is trying very hard to say something interesting and to address some important point; the story has a portentous edge-of-the-apocalypse setting, the characters seem to be stretching for some sort of archetypal stature (the innocent child, the conflicted hero, and the serpent-like talking weapon), and her characters’ mission—to destroy an atomic bomb—seems as though it should feel powerfully worthy. But the more I read “Miles to Isengard,” the less I like it.
And SFSite does like "Bell, Book, and Candle":
Leah Bobet spins the story of several unusual people in "Bell, Book, and Candle." The titular trio are called every so often to perform arcane religious ceremonies, but at no little cost to themselves. How they relate to one another and their functions, and what it takes out of them, is told in this lyrical narrative that seems to be part truth and part dream. It's intriguing, and occasionally ambiguous.
So that, folks, is about even for the day.
