Monday, the other end of.

[lagilman]

things that break my brain: "Catwoman. MZB's Renunciates. Compare and Discuss." Damned if it doesn't work.

A walk into town and back again cleared my head of many things, and refilled it with many other things. That is what a good walk in falling snow should do, no? I have realized that everyone in the cosa nostradamus has father issues. Specifically, father-abandonement issues.

So much for everyone who wants to analyze the writer via her work. My dad's totally a present-and-accounted-for type. I have issues, lord knows -- I have subscriptions -- but that's not one of them.

The two (as far as I can remember) mother characters, on the other hand, are imperfect but well-meaning and loving. So either my mom and I are cool, or there's major amounts of repression going on there.

(*hi mom! sorry mom!*)

and speaking of mom:

evilmeer: just hit 2,900 words for the day.
evilmer: I really should stop and do other stuff
momgilman: sounds like you've done a marathon.
evilmeer: pretty good day, yeah.
evilmeer: Just need to keep to the minimum, rest of the week
evilmeer: really need to do 7,000 a week, minimum.
momgilman: you are my hero, you know that?

End result? 3,100 words and another chapter closer to threequarterbookitis. I'm going to run out of plot before I hit word count. That's okay. There are "add this earlier, damn it!" notes littering the side of the road that need to be dealt with before I can sign off, anyway.

Plus, another chunk of editing nailed to the desk. Yay me.

And now there is a hot shower and a glass of red wine waiting for me. And a Great Performances special on Sting's "Song from the Labyrinth," and why the HELL do I not own this already?

Comments

Randomness

[boomuse.livejournal.com]

Okay first off, the Renunciates/Catwoman thing broke MY brain. (considering I just re-read Shattered Chain...hmmmm)

Second, how coincidental that I'm getting ready to watch the Sting Great Performances as well! (That and I just found out the Loreena McKennitt Great performances is coming up on March 17 for us here in Chicago. Squee!)

I blame the residual Novacaine from my fillings for this random comment...

Congrats on the wordcount, though!

Re: Randomness

[lagilman]

Okay first off, the Renunciates/Catwoman thing broke MY brain.

But it works. That's the damnable thing. It really does work. In a limited fashion, yeah, but there are enough overlays to get a defensible feminist theory in modern genre literature paper out of it, a least. Should anyone care to take a whack at it. *tired grin*


Congrats on the wordcount, though!

Thankee. Just nailed another thousand before I have to go off to the office. M. is going to get a very tired meerkat, today.

[girasole.livejournal.com]

I own Songs from the Labyrinth. Now, I am a great fan of Sting, and deeply entranced by early music, so I really wanted to see them together, as it were.

The result? I think if you don't know or listen to early music much, this is satisfying, but if you do, it is harder to love. Sting sings them with an open-hearted approach -- they are songs, and thus he sings them -- but he loses some of the poetry withal. The spoken words between the songs are also interesting, making the album like a performance piece, which is not always enchanting.

Look forward to your reactions. I hope I haven't missed the Channel 13 special here in NYC.

[lagilman]

I know early music, but not a an academic -- my approach to them is as poetry, first, and then as private entertainment forms (as opposed to performance pieces). Based on what I saw of the special, I think I would enjoy it, since Sting's taking that approach - less as a professional musician and more as an 'entertainment on a long winter's evening' sort of thing.

The historian in me approves.

Plus, I like his voice.