At some 88 pages and 21.7K, the draft of “Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight” is finished. It’s now off to beta readers who will render opinions, and the novella will be delivered to its patrons next Tuesday, September 1st. Whew. Okay, taking the rest of the day off now. :) thinks to done/done: – email the dabels – email melissa – finish chance essays – check with jason wrt chance essay – finish “hot time” – post belfast writeup/pictures – finish rattlesnake proposal – start work on mia…
ffbblt.
thinks to done/done: – email the dabels – email melissa – finish chance essays – check with jason wrt chance essay – finish “hot time” – post belfast writeup/pictures – finish rattlesnake proposal – start work on mia – answer fred’s email been working on the belfast stuff for 90 minutes. have lost all will to live. *drags self off to do something, ANYTHING, else*
Walk to Rivendell
A friend of mine asked a couple days ago where the mileage to Rivendell was. She found it at its usual location, the Eowyn Challenge, but because I broke it out into separate journeys years ago whle I was doing this, I asked if she wanted the individualized set. She did, and at least one other person did too, so I thought I’d put it up here in case anybody else wanted to walk to Rivendell and have their own copy of this.
slightly crushed
I had real hopes of finishing “Hot Time” yesterday. I wanted it to be done so I could do some polishing Monday and get it handed over to beta readers for commentary before I got it ready to send out to its patrons. Instead I hit the novelist’s event horizon. I *know* I’m not more than 1500 words (at the most) from finished, but God, I just could not reach the end. I kept trying. The story reached Official Novella Length (17.5K) early on, but I knew it was never…
thinks to do with a link salad
thinks to do this week/end / in august: – email the dabels – email melissa – finish chance essays – check with jason wrt chance essay – finish “hot time” – post belfast writeup/pictures – finish rattlesnake proposal – start work on mia – answer fred’s email thinks to do in september: – the last set of TRUTHSEEKER revisions, i expect – either start WAYFINDER, or at least revise the proposal, depending – add tpc excerpts to cemurphy.net – update cemurphy.net links – start cemurphy.net redesign – work on kitsnaps…