Not dead! Been busy all day. Got 2800 words written and have another couple chapters to do, then must go over the whole book again and do more edits and then give it to some people to read because by the time I’m done with that I won’t be able to stand looking at it anymore. If I am Hideous Cool I’ll have all that done by Monday morning, but Tuesday’s more likely. Also did laundry, walked four miles and made some bread. I’m pretty sure the thing is I…
I’m losing my mind. : )
This book I’m writing is in first person. I just got up from working on it and went and got some gorp and tossed it into my mouth, and thought, and this is *exactly* what I thought: “This isn’t,” I thought, “exactly what I wanted. Maybe I was thirsty instead of hungry.”” Then I thought, less clearly, ‘crap, I’m thinking about myself in the active first person,’ and then, in the active first person voice again, “Well, this can’t be a good sign.” I’m losing my mind. :)
reading
Boy, Garth Nix’s SABRIEL, LIRAEL and ABHORSEN are really good books. I read Sabriel a few years ago but somebody told me to not read Lirael until Abhorsen was available because Lirael didn’t so much end as stop, and they were right. I just got around to reading them all three in the last couple days. By the end of Abhorsen the trilogy has reached a really magnificent crescendo. It is extremely worthy. I’m going to take my entirely unworthy self off to work on TBF some more now. :)
*shakes brain around*
So I just said online, “I finished reading TBF this morning and don’t see how I can cut very much more, or change too much more structure, although there are some scenes I can add, I think, and my editor may just have to accept that there isn’t as much interaction with all the cops in this book. There’ll be lots more in the next book.” Then I said I always feels like I’m speaking in tongues when I start saying things like that. One of my friends said,”You aren’t…
running out of brain
5 pages from 200 and running out of brain. Actually, the revisions have been going really well today. I cut about a chapter and a half of stuff I liked but which really wasn’t necessary, and probably another half chapter’s worth of stuff that was related to that. I’ve now got a *really* nice scene with Jo and Morrison, although I think I need like two more perfect sentences to make it absolutely brilliant. Writing is hard. o.O I’m at a bit now where I think I need to do…