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mid-week connoiter
Dec. 9th, 2009 07:23 amWoke up at 6:02 this morning to heavy rain, the sense that I had to go out in it at some point, and the gentle insistent meeping of a Boomercat who wanted to be fed.
Delighted to realize that I had the date wrong, and I don't have to go anywhere today. Yay.
Wrote about 1,100 new words yesterday which, considering a) I was stuck waiting in the house for a delivery that got rescheduled for today halfway through the window, and b) they were banging on the upstairs apartments' pipes all day (literally, from about 10am to 7pm), is a pretty good accomplishment. This is the skeleton-building phase, where I'm working mainly on what is attached to where, how it's articulated, and jotting down a lot of notes about sinews and veins. Hit the halfway mark and feel it's beginning to really take shape now. Some day I will write a book through start to finish in one pass. But this is not that book.
I also started reading the third of my four books to consider for blurbing, and this one I already know I'll want to say nice things about. Finally!*
Still waiting on people to get back to me with Y/N on projects. V. frustrating.
Today's All About the copyedit of HARD MAGIC. And maybe a nap. The cats are already voting for nap.**
If you're in the path of that Monster Midwest Snowstorm, stay inside, stay warm, stay dry, 'k?
*I am a very tough blurber, and have no hesitation about telling an editor/agent/author "thanks, but not for me" if I'm not excited about it. All those years as Evil Editor Wot's Evil, clearly.
** I woke up yesterday from a sack-out on the sofa to find Pandooa sleeping under my chin, and Boomer stretched out along my torso. I'm thankful they didn't switch positions, as my trachea would have been crushed....
Delighted to realize that I had the date wrong, and I don't have to go anywhere today. Yay.
Wrote about 1,100 new words yesterday which, considering a) I was stuck waiting in the house for a delivery that got rescheduled for today halfway through the window, and b) they were banging on the upstairs apartments' pipes all day (literally, from about 10am to 7pm), is a pretty good accomplishment. This is the skeleton-building phase, where I'm working mainly on what is attached to where, how it's articulated, and jotting down a lot of notes about sinews and veins. Hit the halfway mark and feel it's beginning to really take shape now. Some day I will write a book through start to finish in one pass. But this is not that book.
I also started reading the third of my four books to consider for blurbing, and this one I already know I'll want to say nice things about. Finally!*
Still waiting on people to get back to me with Y/N on projects. V. frustrating.
Today's All About the copyedit of HARD MAGIC. And maybe a nap. The cats are already voting for nap.**
If you're in the path of that Monster Midwest Snowstorm, stay inside, stay warm, stay dry, 'k?
*I am a very tough blurber, and have no hesitation about telling an editor/agent/author "thanks, but not for me" if I'm not excited about it. All those years as Evil Editor Wot's Evil, clearly.
** I woke up yesterday from a sack-out on the sofa to find Pandooa sleeping under my chin, and Boomer stretched out along my torso. I'm thankful they didn't switch positions, as my trachea would have been crushed....
