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Chapter 1 and 2009
Okay, so the middle draft for chapter one of my space operatic Hercules tale is done enough to go up on the writer's workshop. I reworked the entire last third where I'd missed out on a lot of plot opportunities in favor of NaNo expediency (the "meh" of last post when I realized sentence-level edits were not enough ( Read more... ) -
Editing woe
Hrm, I hate my manuscript today. It's gotta be alchemical because I go through this with most of my writing projects. The blush of creation is over, and the editor emerges in that tight-bunned matronly way and raps my knuckles over and over with her yardstick, and what are you doing with this foul mess ( Read more... ) -
The Gift of Time
I decided to spoil myself by closing my WoW account. My druid hit 80 and I just don't have it in me to raid-grind again to epic out. Been there, done that ( Read more... ) -
Lemmings, maybe, but sunny mold-less lemmings.
We should have known last April that come winter, theCave would become unacceptable. It's obvious that our cold-like symptoms that refuse to go away are coming from the spores that make the under the bathtub a nightmare in bleach to clean and that give a fuzzy green-grey rim to the windowsills. You can tell what direction your facing by the layer ( Read more... ) -
So it begins...
Editing chapter one. At 10k, it took most of my writing time just to read over it.
I've been playing with pronouns to account for the gender variations (or lack of them) of some of the other species. So far I have male, female, combinant, intersexual, asexual, and odd interdimensional things that no one knows what to make of. -
NaNo--day7
I was half-hoping to hit 20k today and I'm realizing how much easier the first 50k are than the last 50k. When it's a perfectly new project, there's this open meadow and you can run around anywhere, with your eyes closed even. The second half of the story has trees all over the place that you have to maneuver around.
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Happy... and reserved
The U.S. is done with the Republican experiment, and good on it.
But I'm saddened by the slight majority of California's voters who thought it a good idea to attack the constitution, to strip away rights for a minority because...?
Most cherry-pick cite religious reasons, pointing to a Bible which has more to say about divorce than homosexual ( Read more... ) -
Another plea for sanity...
Some amazing expression comes out of brilliant, thoughtful people when they're defending something that matters.
I can't let this response to 8 fall through the cracks.
Thank you, Rach.
Namaste, indeed.
