Did a hundred pages of US editing tonight, where editing is equal to ‘fixed sentence structures and occasionally highlighted big swaths and said PUT MORE DETAIL HERE’, as per revision letter. I’m not going to be able to be certain of where to put more detail until I’ve re-read the whole manuscript, which I haven’t done in … a long time. Some places are easy, many others I keep thinking “there’s somewhere better a little further in”, but I don’t really know because I haven’t read it in quite a…

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Inspired partly by the conference this weekend, where it was clear having business cards would’ve been useful, and partly by my brother-in-law Gavin’s grandfather, who introduces himself as John T. Mendel, Famous Scientist, I have created a business card for myself. :)

I’m Batman! Rock on!

Printing out US to edit/revise. Um. That’s about it. I’ve really got to get back on the writing bandwagon. This whole having to stop and edit/revise stuff is detrimental to the forward motion of wordcount. (Of course, it’s sort of useful for the whole career aspect, so ya wins some, ya loses some, obviously.) *stares around* Yeah. Um. Okay. Bye now. :)

Or possibly we’ll stay out much later than anticipated, getting a frame for Cairn Dance, and I’ll work on editing a short story (thanks Stella! thanks Sarah!) instead of printing out a 400 page manuscript. miles to Rivendell: 407.5