Not much to say here. It continues to be gorgeous out and I don’t want to work. :) But I’m more than halfway through typing in the copy edits, which have caught some bits that I’d just lost control of from revising the book so many times. So that’s good. We’re heading up to Mom & Dad’s for the Easter weekend. Happy Easter, everybody! miles to Minas Tirith: 48
morning rituals
I’ve determined that sitting down to read my various web comics and journals and handful of news sites in the morning actually only takes about 30 minutes, even if I read everything links to and all his comments. Why, then, am I usually at the computer for over an hour in the morning? *turns the damned thing off and goes to work* eta: *returns, 3 minutes later, swearing, to turn the computer back on and get the files I need off it*
worky worky work
I’m a little more than halfway through the line edits on HEART OF STONE. They’re going pretty well, and to my genuine astonishment, I don’t hate the book anymore. Given that I could almost literally not look at it when I finished the last round of revisions, this is a very good thing indeed. There are a couple places where my editor’s cut out blocks of descriptive/explanatory stuff as being over the top, which I think is vaguely amusing, because I’m pretty sure I put them in because an editor…
…to fall down at your door
A couple nights ago we watched David Tennant (who really is a long tall drink of water, oh my) on some talk show which was … well, Ted and I spent most of it (when we weren’t screaming with laughter) agog over the things they say on British TV that you Just Couldn’t Say on American TV. :) Anyway, but one of the bits was about some music video that apparently Tennant took part in because it was a video for The Proclaimers, and he (being Scottish himself) is a…
books away!
Books for , , ‘s friend, and are in the mail! DVDs for people will be going out over the next few days at I get the appropriate sorts of shipping materials for things. Those will be going slow boat, but they’ll get there eventually! :) This–a news story about how dirt might be good for you–utterly fails to surprise me. miles to Minas Tirith: 27