It doesn’t seem much like progress when all you do is spend the day reading the manuscript (between helping ferry the cat around), but I think I did accomplish some things. First, I actually pretty much enjoyed the book. Second, I think it’s hanging together. There’s a caveat to the second, which is very often at this stage when I re-read the manuscript as far as I’ve gotten, I think, “Hey, this isn’t bad,” and then spend ten days trying to figure out why I can’t get any further, and…
Author: mizkit
cat update
The dumb cat had in fact wet his cast through by climbing into the bottom of the shower, so now he’s been re-cast (after the vet said, “Aaah, ya dumb cat!” to him) and the bathroom door is closed against anybody without opposable thumbs. Poor Zilli is looking rather wide-eyed and bleary with anesthetics, and I, personally, am quite ready for him to be all healed up. However, everyone who’s seen him at the vet’s (both vets and people bringing their pets in) have admired what a pretty cat he…
introducing the zimmers
Ok, so earlier this evening I saw this article on BBC about a guy who made a documentary about old people’s lives in Britain. He met about forty old age pensioners, many of whom were pretty miserable living in care facilities or tower apartments, and he got ’em all together and found a record label willing to take a chance and they recorded “My Generation” as a single. And the video’s had 2 million downloads on youtube and the single was released today. Their lead singer is 90. I’m totally…
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Arright. I got to page 390 or so, and at that point pretty much decided that it really was time to print out the whole book and see if any of it worked, and to get a feeling for the whole thing so these last hundredish pages don’t feel completely out of control. Ahahaha. -.- I don’t yet know if my clever idea to move a scene is going to work (it’s the next scene up if I move it, so I kind of have to figure out now if…
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book! spinning! out of control! interesting conclusions revealing themselves! unexpected twists! enemies abound! alliances forming! alliances shattering! hundreds of pages to go! no idea what happens next! damn!