Ok. Got through the book once. I actually feel like I’ve got a story here. That’s nice. Don’t think I’ll work on it more today, ’cause Ted has the evening off (at least in theory) and maybe we can watch some TV on DVD together before he collapses, poor guy. Anyway, the work, she is cut out for me, but it doesn’t look too arduous (except for the part where using my brain the way it’s necessary to for these books is difficult), so I should be more or less…
Author: mizkit
editing
Ok, there’ve been two scenes so far that I’d more or less forgotten about that when I read them I thought, hey, that’s pretty good, and I just now turned a page and read a scene end and went “OOH! THAT WAS A GOOD ONE! OOH! I didn’t see *that* coming! OOH!” It’s a little silly to not see it coming when you *wrote* it, but there you are. was pleased by my OOH!ing, saying: says “Making pleased noises during a revision pass before she gets to the very very…
On procrastinating, or maybe on editing
So far today I’ve cleaned the kitchen fairly thoroughly, made bread, folded laundry in order to recover the kitchen table so I could work there, cleared off the coffee table so I could work there, and printed out eleven hundred pages worth of manuscripts. Really. Because obviously, you can’t edit if the living room hasn’t been rescued from itself, or if the kitchen table is sagging under the weight of clean laundry, or if there’s no fresh bread with homemade apricot jam to eat. You certainly can’t edit the one…
printy printy print
I’m printing out HOUSE OF CARDS to do edits on it. In skimming veryveryquickly as I put all the separate chapters together, I become reluctantly willing to concede that there may be *something* salvageable in this book. I am always surprised by this moment. No one else is, but I always am. Colorist is hired. I’ve found a letterer, too. It looks like we’re very probably on for an October 1 submission date. Wow. *boggle* snikily sent me “Anne of a Thousand Days”, which she says I must watch and…
Wow.
I am completely astounded at the number of thoughtful responses I got on that colors posting. You guys all *rock*. That was really, really cool to read and think about. My own choice is the just-barely-favored #2, for a lot of the reasons that have been ennumerated. It pays more attention to actual lighting sources, the depth and shading is good, and I love the night sky behind her (it works *so* well with the next page, too!). My second favorite is #5, with #6 in there at just about…