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lagilmandialogue this morning:
"I have no patience with willful ignorance. Or emotional avoidance. Fuckin' irritates me."
"So, you've got no use for most for humanity, then."
"That does seem to sum it up, dunnit?"
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Professional writer on a closed track
Today I woke up early, revised a lot of pages, went for a walk in the snow, took an involuntary, cat-supervised nap, revised more pages, and ate random bits of food as my stomach reminded me. There are submissions queued up for reading tonight, when I can't revise any more. It's been a very odd day, one of several in a row, and my brain and body are both telling me, in increasingly loud voices, that I need a damn break before I break.
Tomorrow, more revising (hopefully to be done) and then I'm off to the NY wine expo to both taste wine and see if I can make a few useful research contacts. Then another few days of intense work under both the writing and editing hats, and then I'm off to Dublin for a combination research trip/P'con weekend.
I suppose somewhere in there I'll sneak in some non-working time off?
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A tweet, originally in three parts:
Much of world-building in a story involves backing away from what you know & considering the structural logic of your world.
Logic is not optional. Internal consistency develops & informs your world, making it both real & true.
It's also a lot harder than just making shit up. #amwriting
[brought to you courtesy of the half hour I spent trying to figure out if, in the world of the Vinearts, blackpowder would have been a viable and realistic development, and if so, would it have spread to the Lands Vin by the time of my story. There is no right answer and no matter what I choose or why, someone will claim I'm doin' it wrong.]
"I have no patience with willful ignorance. Or emotional avoidance. Fuckin' irritates me."
"So, you've got no use for most for humanity, then."
"That does seem to sum it up, dunnit?"
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Professional writer on a closed track
Today I woke up early, revised a lot of pages, went for a walk in the snow, took an involuntary, cat-supervised nap, revised more pages, and ate random bits of food as my stomach reminded me. There are submissions queued up for reading tonight, when I can't revise any more. It's been a very odd day, one of several in a row, and my brain and body are both telling me, in increasingly loud voices, that I need a damn break before I break.
Tomorrow, more revising (hopefully to be done) and then I'm off to the NY wine expo to both taste wine and see if I can make a few useful research contacts. Then another few days of intense work under both the writing and editing hats, and then I'm off to Dublin for a combination research trip/P'con weekend.
I suppose somewhere in there I'll sneak in some non-working time off?
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A tweet, originally in three parts:
Much of world-building in a story involves backing away from what you know & considering the structural logic of your world.
Logic is not optional. Internal consistency develops & informs your world, making it both real & true.
It's also a lot harder than just making shit up. #amwriting
[brought to you courtesy of the half hour I spent trying to figure out if, in the world of the Vinearts, blackpowder would have been a viable and realistic development, and if so, would it have spread to the Lands Vin by the time of my story. There is no right answer and no matter what I choose or why, someone will claim I'm doin' it wrong.]
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Date: 2010-02-27 12:16 am (UTC)"So, you've got no use for most for humanity, then."
"That does seem to sum it up, dunnit?"
Were you in my kitchen, like... pretty much any given day? Because I often have this conversation as well.
Also, the stuff about world-building, I'm making notes because I suspect I'ma be referrin' to the a lot in the coming days.
I'm a'skeered, I am, meerkat, at what I'm getting myself into.
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Date: 2010-02-27 12:24 am (UTC)*points* Virgo. We analyze and engage our intellectual and emotional shit, and expect other people to as well. It's both a strength (for us) and a frustration (when dealing with those who just Can't or Won't).
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Date: 2010-02-27 02:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-27 12:41 am (UTC)"So, you've got no use for most for humanity, then."
"That does seem to sum it up, dunnit?"
Have you been sitting in on some of my conference calls from work again?
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Date: 2010-02-27 05:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-27 11:53 am (UTC)Historians. They are out to get us.
I'm one myself. It makes for Teh Confused.
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Date: 2010-02-27 12:56 pm (UTC)Nah, Historicans nitpick. I'm cool with that, because if you say "yeah, I thought about X (the fact that gunpowder is Asian in assumed origin) and considered Y (Japan and most of China aren't well-known in this world-iteration) and Z (there is no Islamic movement to bring the trade- or military swirl to the Western world..., not to mention there were no large-scale wars to bring gunpowder into development on a wider scale" you can get them to back off and say "okay, yeah, I see your problem...."
It's the Know Something/Assume Everything nitpickers who make me crazy, like the writer obviously Didn't Understand Their World... (or didn't bother to do any research).