Snurched from /Tersa: This is IMDb’s top 25 all-time box office hits. Bold the ones you saw in theater, italicize the ones you saw some other way instead, and leave the unseen ones alone.
just doin’ the job
So I got revision notes on THE PRETENDER’S CROWN from my agent, the estimable /Jennifer Jackson a couple of days ago. The first screen (which was all I read at the time) wasn’t too terrible (I have gotten *really* gun-shy about revision letters since the one that obliged me to *completely* rewrite HOUSE OF CARDS), so today I held my breath and looked at the rest of it. Really not dreadful at all, except perhaps for the part where she said, “Around page 250 I thought, hm, this is slow…
Oh my God. *bursts out laughing*
*laughs* Oh my God. I just found what must have been *very* close to the original first character sketch/getting the feeling thing for the Walker Papers. It’s about 800 words long, and it’s *awful*. oh my *God* it’s bad. *howls with laughter* Yeah, oh my God, created April 17, 2000, at 6:01pm. Oh my God. It’s awful. *laughs more* Here, here, let me share my humiliation with you:
spamming lj today
I rewrote two half-chapters and think I’ve gotten the book back on track. The next few chapters will be all-new, with lots of action and a character who hasn’t been seen in a while (nevermind that nobody from the Walker Papers has been seen in a while, since it’s TWO YEARS since I’ve written one!), and … well, we’ll see where it goes tomorrow, I guess. I’ve only lost a couple thousand words at this point, which is nice. ytd wordcount: 260,600
comic con schedule, version 1
Ok, my Comic Con schedule is starting to take shape. Currently it looks something like this: WEDNESDAY, JULY 22: Daytime is free, with a potential lunch with (of all things) a friend from Ireland :) Evening is Preview Night. Expect incoherency from the chick who’s flown over from Ireland. THURSDAY, JULY 23: Evening: Random House party (that sounds totally different than what it actually is! *laughs*) FRIDAY, JULY 25 1:00-2:00 Looking at our World: Eye on the Present Authors discuss how they use the supernatural in stories of contemporary society:…