V. proud of myself. Got 2/3rds of the way through the manuscript with little revisiony things (it is of course in the last 3rd (which is really the third quarter) that the real work needs to be done, but well, hell, at least I got that far) and went for a walk, upon which I saw and her father. We greeted each other briefly and then went our separate ways. My separate way happened upon the Cork Fire Brigade sucking water (via a hose) out of the river and then…
Author: mizkit
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Well, snotmonkeys. I couldn’t get gold circle tickets off Ticketmaster and while it’s an all-standing venue and presumably if one arrives early enough one can get right up close, there’s no guarantee of that, really. Puckernuts. Maybe I’ll hit ebay when I’ve got more money. :p
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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…
forward motion: 0; peace of mind: …1?
I woke Ted up and cried on him and told him everything that happens in the hundred pages I’ve written since he read the manuscript, and he opined that the thing my main character does that I’m not comfortable with is in fact exactly what she should and in fact has to do. He came up with a couple of good ideas that help explain something else, and then he made dinner and re-arranged the living room. Ted is a hero. So what I’m doing now is going back through…
wish me luck
4800 words (or more) needed today. The idea is slightly overwhelming (I maintain 3K days better than 5K days over the distance). All encouraging comments will be met with love and gratitude. eta: ok, after two hours and two hundred words, I need to figure out whether the problem is that I just don’ wanna, or if I’ve screwed up. Usually this kind of reluctance is a sign of having screwed up, but if I have I don’t know what the hell to *fix*. The obvious “this is the scene…