an assortment of things

Wah. No contract. Must email Jennifer. Email at work today announcing the merger between my parent company, AdvancePCS, and Caremark, has been approved by the FTC, which means… not a great deal to me personally. Eventually when the deal closes it’ll mean some retention bonus money here and there, which is always nice. I ate a truffle after lunch and spent the next forty minutes or so fighting with cravings for more sugar-sweet stuff. I discussed it some with Starling, whose theory is that cravings are triggered by eating something…

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DELETE DELETE DELETE

DELETE DELETE DELETE. Sat down to write this morning, got 300 words written and realized Jo doesn’t *have* her car for the rest of this book, so I had to go rewrite the entire end of the last chapter (not done with that yet) and change a bunch of stuff around which is probably okay because the things I’m putting in are things I was thinking last night needed to go in during rewrites, at least, and well, hey, look. Rewrites. o.o Anyway, so I made my quota but it’s…

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such a mess.

This book is such a mess. Not the disasterous mess it was at the beginning of this year where I had to rewrite eighty quazrillion words, but still a mess. I just finished ch. 29 and I think I’m pretty close to right on schedule for wrapping up at ch. 35, but there’s a whole *lot* of fixing that needs to be done with this book. I’ve been taking notes on what I need to fix. It’s questions of pacing and timing, mostly. Motivations, somewhat. Possibly I need to add…

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stuff and fuss

Went and bought a new season 1 Highlander. Am feeling v. smug about it, too. :) Ted got some game which will doom him for all time (Star Wars: An Empire Divided) and we had dinner out, all luxurious-like. Other than that, I’ve been doinking around on the computer all evening, so here, behind the cut tag, are a couple more interviews from Laura and Mary Anne.

interview from jai!

Interview from Jai! Wow, good questions. (moving stuff to behind cuts, because these are way long.)