I feel like I’m updating this thing every twenty minutes, but swear to God, it’s a sanity-maintaining measure. Writing down what I’m accomplishing (or not) makes a significant difference to my brain. And man. I feel like I have not accomplished a lot today. In fact, I’ve gotten more than forty pages of stuff revised, the scene that needed punching has been punched and I like it, I think the next scene works even better now, and the all-new scene I’m working on will set up a bunch of the…
maybe…
Maybe someone who is on my flist and who is cooler than me with animated graphics, or heck, even just graphics, and who has a few minutes and a sense of humor could make me a new icon. Or two. I can’t use animated icons on mizkit.com. This cool icon could say, “Writing is hard. Let’s go shopping.” (This is funnier, I admit, if you know I hate shopping with a passion. And it’s a better phrase if you know about the Barbie “Math is hard. Let’s go shopping,” fiasco.…
breaking down
My right shoulder, from behind the shoulder blade, down through the ulnar nerve and into my pinky, is starting to ache. This is the most annoying and uncomfortable of the signs that Catie Has Been At The Laptop Too Much, and it’s compounded right now by sleeping funny a couple days ago and giving myself a stiff neck. I have, through several years of trial and error, learned to mitigate this as much as possible. The best way to do so is to work at a table, but after four…
I will *not*…
I will *not* be taking a nap today, no matter how tired I get at 10:30 this morning. Not after the combination of yesterday’s nap and talking with Spidey and my brain whirling and whirling and whirling kept me up until after 2am. I will go for a walk, I will take a shower, I will do whatever, but I will *not* take a nap. Jesus. I will also not work on script rewrites except maybe at mealtimes, which are not allowed to stretch to two hours so I can…
blee
I got about 60 pages done, up to page 250 (well, 247, close enough), with one entirely new chapter that replaces the old one that just wouldn’t work. The transition scene’s still rough going into the next bit, but I can smooth it out. The next scene I have to rewrite is okay as it is, but should be really painful and explosive when I’m done rewriting it, which should make the follow-up scene which needs comparatively little work all the more powerful. I hope. I need to work at…