The thud, Sir, the thud.

[leahbobet]

I have not been logging the revise-a-thon that I've been engaged in this week (and all this weekend), but "Sugar" is, I think, as good as turned in. Or I guess, being a novella-almost-novel, maybe it's Sugar? Whatever, little back-monkey. Get yourself gone. :p

Which leaves us at:

Writing Project Honeydew, 2009

Write "Parable of the Shower"
Write "Sugar"
Revise "Parable of the Shower"
Revise "Sugar"
Write two SU DVD extras
Revise Above (I'm at about Ch. 4 and had to stop to do this other revising.)
Write "The Marriage of the Harpy"
Start The Enchanted Generation
Start "The Small Dark Movie of Your Life"

Write "Know Your Apocalypses"
Write "The Right People"
Write "Bachelorette"

One or two of those things need to happen inside the next few weeks, actually, if they plan to happen at all. There are deadlines involved.

(Oh, and with that, the argument for one of those DVD extras just showed up in my brain. Thank you, brain. Thank you, lists.)

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In other news, there are, as usual, reviews:

Soyka at Black Gate is not overall keen on "Miles to Isengard":

I couldn’t connect with the characters and lost patience with the length and pacing. Nor did I quite get the purpose of the bomb’s seeming communication with the narrator. That said, after all is said and done, the story redeems itself with a great concluding line that, unfortunately, aptly summarizes the human condition.

Mark Watson at BestSf.net likes it better:

Another first appearance from a small-press-to-date author, and it's a tight, taut near-future thriller. There's a small group of people driving a lorry with a very dangerous load, through a US that has suffered of late. The load is a bomb, and it's getting into the minds of those who are wanting to take it to a safer place. The dynamics of the party, the effects on them, particularly the protagonist, lead to a well-handled building of the tension, with the background sketched in through the narrative without any laborious info-dumping.

(I admit I didn't think of myself as a small-press-to-date author. But the universe gives you these things so your personal humility oil change light doesn't have to blink on as often, right?)

Comments

[stevenagy.livejournal.com]

Very ambitious. Keep setting the bar. :-)

[imago1.livejournal.com]

I think Watson's reviews have improved since I first noticed them around 2003. He's become fairly incisive and seems even- handed.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Logically enough, I haven't encountered him before. I remain a bit surprised at how little overlap there can be between the North American and UK (and Australian and international) specfic markets/fandoms, though.

[imago1.livejournal.com]

For better or worse I have found British reviewers to be an acerbic lot, especially when evaluating work from the Colonies.

[merriehaskell.livejournal.com]

small-press-to-date author....

I've gotten that one before. I don't think it applies to you so much.