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…
weekend report
No miles at *all* this weekend. Saturday I was v. lazy and today it was insanely windy and I was just not that good a person. So after last week being all full of miley goodness I totally flaked. Oh well. Tomorrow’s supposed to be warmer/less windy. Last night Ted and I went and rented “Flight of the Phoenix” and “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow”, then came home and watched 6 episodes of Smallville. *laugh* And stopped at the 3rd season mid-season break, and had it not been…