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lagilmanThanks, everyone, for the help with our spider identification project. I'm threatening to name her Jesúsa.
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Day 62 of Retrievers #6: Blood From Stone
Crap forward movement because I'm doing the 3/4 readover.
Some people pick up speed when they get to the 3/4 point. Me, I pull over to the side and make sure everything's in shape for the final push, reading and editing and swearing loudly when I realize I dropped a plot point in the initial word-rush. Once I have everything lined up, polished up, and revved up, the last 1/4 will come. It's just the getting to that point that makes me cranky.
I used to do the mad rush to the end, enjoying the feel of the plot building momentum up to the penultimate chapter (long-time readers of the journal will recall that I don't write the last chapter out until everything else is reworked, because once the story is concluded it's tougher for me to go back to do anything other than directed editorial revisions] Then I realized since the book always veers so much from outline, re-reading the book at that point was needed to keep me on-track with the ending.
The 3/4 readthrough is a pain, but it's less of a pain that doing a 95% read-through and then having to make significant changes in the ending. For me, anyway.
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Meanwhile, there's a sizable chunk of other things on the to-do list for this week, including (yay) a Springsteen concert in Hartford. Damn, that came up fast. Better get to the list before it gets me....
EtA: Oh, and twelve sacks. Twelve. Whatever else the season may bring, let us remember that number, and be gleeful.
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Day 62 of Retrievers #6: Blood From Stone
Crap forward movement because I'm doing the 3/4 readover.
Some people pick up speed when they get to the 3/4 point. Me, I pull over to the side and make sure everything's in shape for the final push, reading and editing and swearing loudly when I realize I dropped a plot point in the initial word-rush. Once I have everything lined up, polished up, and revved up, the last 1/4 will come. It's just the getting to that point that makes me cranky.
I used to do the mad rush to the end, enjoying the feel of the plot building momentum up to the penultimate chapter (long-time readers of the journal will recall that I don't write the last chapter out until everything else is reworked, because once the story is concluded it's tougher for me to go back to do anything other than directed editorial revisions] Then I realized since the book always veers so much from outline, re-reading the book at that point was needed to keep me on-track with the ending.
The 3/4 readthrough is a pain, but it's less of a pain that doing a 95% read-through and then having to make significant changes in the ending. For me, anyway.
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Meanwhile, there's a sizable chunk of other things on the to-do list for this week, including (yay) a Springsteen concert in Hartford. Damn, that came up fast. Better get to the list before it gets me....
EtA: Oh, and twelve sacks. Twelve. Whatever else the season may bring, let us remember that number, and be gleeful.
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Date: 2007-10-01 01:50 pm (UTC)*sees tags* Ohhhhh. Gotcha.
*waves pom-poms for book*
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Date: 2007-10-01 02:06 pm (UTC)I have no great (or even minor) hopes for this season, so I'm taking the moments as they come.
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Date: 2007-10-02 02:05 am (UTC)(Meanwhile, the Pats are showing promise at halftime, but I refuse to jinx anything... :})
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Date: 2007-10-01 06:55 pm (UTC)