I am in a very fine mood! I have written four thousand words after (and including) wrenching this chapter around to keep the scene I really liked but which was from the wrong POV, and it *works*. I have broken 60K on this book. There is a great deal of sex. (It’s ironic. I’ve been struggling with making the Old Race sexy enough, whereas TQB I’m like, “BRING IT ON, BABY” to the point of thinking, “Ok, is this next bit of boinking actually relevant enough to the plot to…
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I have begun THE QUEEN’S BASTARD. ‘Begun’ is something of a misnomer, since there were, at the beginning of the day, 49,400 words written on it. I’ve re-started it, anyway, and have managed, I think, to deal with the scene that I didn’t write because I didn’t know it needed to be there until it wasn’t, and now it is. I think it is there in sufficient quantity. If it is not, then it’s because the book needs another POV character, and it’s not lending itself to that. We’ll see…
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My first thought–the very first thought, the one that appalls me and at the same time makes perfect sense–upon seeing the devastated, blackened floors where the planes had crashed into the buildings, was not of the people who’d died, or the people who’d done this. It was of a semi-post-apocalyptic story that and I have worked on, called Legion. In that world, NYC has grown up even taller and darker than it is today, with a layer of pathways and streets high in the sky, connecting skyscrapers in a tangle…
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Dad sent a link of the American Film Institute’s 25 top-rated musicals. We all agreed that “Singin’ in the Rain” unquestionably belonged in the #1 spot, but promptly fell to disagreeing about, oh, everything else. Mom and I both think “Silk Stockings” belongs in at least the top 10, if not the top 5, and it’s not even *on* the list. And while “Guys & Dolls” is the best musical ever (*even* outranking “Singin’”), the movie is no good at all. (Oh, *God* how I wish they’d make a new…