I’m going to start finishing my walk to Rivendell on the first. I have 83 miles to go. I’d like to finish it by the end of April, but what’s more important is that I overcome the dreary stupid snowy weather and walk at least a little every day. Before you ask, I’m not starting today because my back is still screwed up and I can’t go to the chiro until tomorrow. Thursday will hopefully be enough time for adjustments to settle in and allow me to walk without pain.…
I need a box.
I need a box. More specifically, I need a bin. Something that I can throw dead manuscripts in, and when the bin is full I can take all the little dead bits of manuscript to a recycler and have them turned into fresh clean paper so I’m going through fewer trees. I have an astonishing number of manuscript parts lyig around my house. Right here, from my desk, I can see 7 manuscripts, 3 of which are dead. They are bad printouts, or they’re edited copies which have been typed…
stella, you mustn’t hurt me.
Stella, you mustn’t hurt me. Nor you neither, Silkie. There’ll be no TQB for a little while, because I need to write an outline for it. It’s going along fine on an interpersonal level, which is good because that’s the level the story happens at, but at the mechanical political level I don’t have enough of a grasp on it, and while I could perhaps continue on this way, it would SUCK. Ahem. :) So I’m gonna spend the next week or two working out the outline and then do…
sleepy
Sleepy. Very, very sleepy. We went out and had some hot chocolate, which was nice, and wandered around Title Wave until my back hurt too much and we had to come home again. Oh, we got our totals from Title Wave, ended up with $110 in general credit and $294.25 in pocket credit. Ye gods and little fishes. They must’ve taken damned near ALL the paperbacks! I read Carol Berg’s TRANSFORMATION today, merely 18 or 19 months after I got it. It was very very good. She’s one of those…
getting complicated
Rewrites are where it starts getting complicated for figuring out my wordcount. I’ve finished a rewrite of ch 1 of HEART OF STONE, which puts me 500 words to the good on the chapter, but I wrote more new stuff than that just today alone. Typically I’ve given myself 50% ‘edit credit’, but that seems sort of overkilly. Maybe 33% edit credit. Which, in fact, for this chapter, is pretty accurate. Spent all day yesterday watching Highlander and Stargate and movies. It was very nice, except the stupid aching neck.…