That didn’t work exactly how I hoped it would. Reading the first 6.5 chapters (which is as much as I had written) determined that the first three were really incredibly bad. Not all of them, but big chunks. So I cut out the big chunks, which proved to be…oh, I don’t know. More than a chapter. Probably about a chapter and a half. 20 or more pages out of like 40 or 45. (Oi.) And rearranged and rewrote and ended up about 1300 words short of where I’d been this…
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the morning report
I am, even as I type, printing out the 89 pages of HOUSE OF CARDS manuscript I have written. *pauses to do this, so what I’m saying is true* Ok, there, it’s printing. My goal today is to go through the rough, which has to be done on paper, not screen, and…fix things. Rewrite what I’ve got, add scenes, spend as much time as necessary writing notes in the margins about things I had ideas for while doing HoS revisions. I hope that at the end of the day I…
tired
I am tired. I got up far earlier than I’ve been accustomed to in order to go to Blackrock yesterday. Beeeooooteeful morning. I was glad to be out in it. :) I didn’t really properly admire the weather on the way up, immersed as I was in ‘s THE FIRST BETRAYAL, which took a traditional fantasy plot and turned it on its ear utterly unexpectedly. I wanted the next one immediately. *looks hopefully at * Since I didn’t have it, I was obliged to read ‘s HIS MAJESTY’S DRAGON, which…
cheerful me
Man. I should be outside playing in the sunshine, but I’m all tuckered out. We walked down to the store, so I did get some exercise in, and then I reaaaaaaaalllllllllly didn’t want to walk down to the post office. Ted, my hero of the revolution, made use of a magical device called a telephone, thus making it unnecessary for me to walk to the post office, so I’ve been sitting around like a sleepy slug all afternoon. Except for the part when I made cookies. That wasn’t slug-like! :)…
bestselling kit
From the Locus June 2006 issue, so this would presumably be for May 2006: Trade Paperback Bestsellers (Barnes & Noble) #1: Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis) #2: The Nymphos of Rocky Flats (Mario Acevedo) #3: Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury) #4: Thunderbird Falls (C.E. Murphy) #5: Kindred (Octavia Butler) Mario Acevedo is the guy from the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers whose book came in second behind RIGHT ANGLES TO FAERYLAND in 2002 when Teresa Nielson Hayden judged the Colorado Gold contest. NYMPHOS is, in fact, that book. Teresa said specifically that…