I’ve blown through 10 chapters in the last 2 days. I have 9 more to go. I’ve added about 20 pages so far, and I’ll be doing at *least* one more pass (honestly, 2 or 3 or 4 is probably much more likely) after I’m done with this one. But it’s going well and I’m getting a lot done, which pleases me intensely. My brain is getting tired, but I ended up taking a break for most of the afternoon, since the little boys were about, and that was probably…
whotta day!
We’ve had a most excellent day here. We weren’t planning on having a Thanksgiving dinner sort of thing today, at least, because Gavin and Deirdre both had to work, and Mom and Dad thought they were going out to Blackrock to babysit the little boys. Instead, Deirdre called to say she wanted to come into town to do errands and she wanted to know if it would be ok to just bring the boys in, so we unexpectedly all ended up here. Mom thought a bit and sent Dad and…
catching up posts
(written 11/23/05) Argh. Writing is hard. Let’s go shopping. Here I am, blithely rewriting, cutting scenes and rewriting them, sometimes fairly significantly. And I whacked the end of this one scene all up, because the relationship has changed, and then I went charging along, rewrite revise cut change whack whack whack OH CRAP DROPPED AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF INFORMATION WITH THAT SCENE CUT NEED TO ADD ALL THIS STUFF BACK IN SOMEWHERE *NEW* ACK ACK MORE REWRITING ADDING REVISING ARGH! And the chapter is seventeen pages long and I haven’t…
…oops.
I just blew out the power cord for my digital camera’s camera dock. My laptop had been doing just fine with the power adapter/converter (I can’t actually remember which it is right now) I have. I rashly, and incorrectly, figured that hey, no problem, the camera dock’s power cord will probably just work right away too! Instead it went *paff* and let out the magic white smoke. There will be no pictures of the new haircolor. Or anything else, for that matter. But here’s the bad thing: my first thought…
wow. tired brain.
Wow. Tired brain. 4000 *new* words today, plus fiddling and twiddling on many of the others. Got four chapters done. I was aiming for five, but the fifth is going to be another that requires quite a lot of rewriting, I think, and I just don’t have the brain to try to handle it right now. I’m pretty sure they’re going to continue to need more and more rewriting as I get further into the book and its shape becomes different, so I’m reveling in these high-chapter-rewrite days while I…