This afternoon I played a game of tic-tac-toe with myself and lost. That *can’t* be a good sign.
You guys are all rock stars. Thank you for the encouragement and comments and everything. I spent today reading the manuscript and I *think* that by adding in another ~chapter to what I’ve written in the last week, I will ratchet up the emotional content and it will make the Difficult Scene work better. There are too many characters and too many events and not enough lingering, I think, as the last week of chapters now stands.
Of course, I’ve also (somewhat grimly) cut about eight pages, too. I knew I shouldn’t have said anything about closing in on 400 pages. Jinxed myself. :P
On a completely different note, Bon Jovi will be here again next summer! Yay! Tickets go on sale tomorrow. I hope to achieve some at normal Ticketmaster prices instead of exorbitant scalper prices. Which reminds me that several weeks ago now I went for a walk, and the random selection on my MP3 player gave me nothing but Bon Jovi and Jim Byrnes on an hour-long walk. I thought that was pretty cool of it. :)
Oh I am so jealous you get all the great concerts there. I still wish I could have seen Meatloaf for a third time.
aw, i LOVE jim.
Here try this.
http://thesurrealist.co.uk/12days
Compensation for having to edit.
hee hee hee
I finished HoS in 3 days… err nights. Heh.
That’s saying something.
On a related note – what happened to going to meatloaf?
And sorry I couldn’t answer your question this afternoon – I was in the car so I couldn’t even look it up for you.
It’s fine, I was just going to post the tic-tac-toe thing, which was hardly earth-shattering. :)
What happened to Meatloaf was this book. :p
Bummer – we’ll have to find something else to hype you up over or be looking forward to – other than the end of this book.
Have you ever read Dorothy L Sayers’s Gaudy Night. It is a bit relentlessly British so I’d understand if not. There is a section there where our heroine uses the great detective as her spare plot brain and he proves quite useful (although a bit glib). It seems the wonderfulness that is Ted has precedent.
Good luck in the saltmines!