a day in the life...

[lagilman]

Things I Hate: writing the perfect damn ending to a chapter, and then looking at the outline and realizing it totally farks with what I planned to do next.
*headdesks*

So I went to the gym, instead.

And paid my estimated taxes for 1Q08.

And shopped for groceries.

And ate pretzels with caramel mustard dip.

And virtually line-edited a story for someone.

And waxed groomed and clipped the claws of one large cat


I suppose I should get back to that ending/starting problem again now, huh?

Comments

[otterdance.livejournal.com]

Heh. In this last one, I left off at the start of winter, which makes for some interesting transportation problems in a medieval setting. Unplanned outcome.

[lagilman]

This wasn't quite so dire -- it's just that someone was supposed to enter the action, but our Heroine wasn't where she needed to be.

Grrr. I think I've found a compromise that leaves the ending mostly intact, and is almost as good a closing line.

(it may, I admit reluctantly, be an even better closing line, actually)

[house-draven.livejournal.com]

Oh, how incredibly irksome. I hope it's an easy fix. And at least you were really productive in the down time!

[lagilman]

and yet, the to-do list is still damn long. To-do lists are like tribbles, breeding all over the damn place....

[fakefrenchie.livejournal.com]

*To-do lists are like tribbles, breeding all over the damn place....*

And to-do lists are not as cute as tribbles!

Well, yes....

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

(Heading to the freezer to toss things to give chapter three more time to tell me where to change POV...)

[varkat.livejournal.com]

Good luck on the chapter logistics.

Ummm, carmel mustard dip. Not sure how those tastes work together, but it sounds good.

[handlebar605.livejournal.com]

with as busy as you sound, I'm kinda glad I didn't point out that SFWA members get free admission to I-Con this weekend (no panels or food, just free admission) and it's in it's last year on the campus of Stony Brook (across from the LIRR train station)

[lagilman]

Hah -- my convention schedule is already busier than I'd wanted it to be this year!

(I'm trying to hit new places not in my back yard, anyway. Next up: Maryland, and Tennessee!)