I have just hit the downward slope on revisions, at least mentally. I’m very slightly over halfway through the book and am starting to be able to add old stuff back in, although it’s still going to take a lot of revising to make it all fit. Still, the prospect of having *much* of the basic work in place (despite everything that needs to be added) for the second half of the book is a huge, huge relief. Now I just have to find a place to live. o.O
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how to focus
From the wit and wisdom that is Neil Gaiman’s journal, this morning I bring you his commentary about deadlines and how to focus: The best suggestion I can make is to stop doing other things. Turn off the computer, or take a laptop somewhere they don’t have wireless. Don’t play solitaire or bring a mobile phone. Then write. It’s amazing how much time you can spend not writing, without even trying. Make a rule that you can either write, or not do anything at all. (No TV. No long baths.…
ups and downs!
Up: one of the guys at the OxFam shop turns out to be a real comic book geek. We had a good time talking today. There were 7 of us on, and about, oh, 7 customers all morning. I also brought the same guy a copy of COYOTE DREAMS, and another guy who’s new in today was Terribly Impressed to meet a Real Writer. I’ve never met anybody as impressed as he was. I did not fit his idea of what a Real Writer would look like (middle-aged, greying, male,…
quick post before bedtime
I was invited to blog at Romance Reader At Heart , and the posting is up today. Pop by and take a quick read, if you’ve got a moment. :) I appear to be on a kick of seeing if there’s a such thing as too many Hugh Grant movies in a compressed period of time. So far, the answer is “no”. I’ve watched Notting Hill, Two Weeks’ Notice, Sense & Sensibility (which I don’t think I even realized he was in), Bridget Jones’s Diary, Love Actually, and I’m pretty…
spider-man, audio books, rewrites, oh my!
Audible.com has COYOTE DREAMS in! The books must be doing pretty well in audio format, because this is *way* faster than either of the other two were released. I got CDs of the first two books just a week or so ago, in fact, which made me beam a lot. :) Spider-Man III review, since several people have asked me: spoiler-free, but In a nutshell: far, far too long, but better than I expected. Mind you, I went in with low expectations. The pacing was bad (it has been for…