Promiscuous Past Meme

Swiped from sartorias

List five fictional people -- from television, movies, books, whatever -- that you had a crush on as a child (or early teens). Then post this on your LiveJournal so other people can know what a dork you've always been.

Davy Crockett (as portrayed by Disney, which qualifies him as "fictional")-- not so much a crush as a desire to be Davy Crockett, but, hey, I was five. The boundaries between oneself and the Beloved are much thinner at that age.

Rouge, aka Lady DaVille -- Whoa. Pirate, lady, lusty wench. Wasted on Kit Gerado, but in the end she would have him.

Illya Kuryakin -- Intense, angsty, smart. In the end, a little too angsty and intense.

Goth -- Capable, stubborn, smart, manipulative, and old beyond her years.

Lord Peter Wimsey -- The star of my fictional love life; my regard for him has only grown deeper over the years

Doncha Just Hate It...

...when your contact lens gets folded up in the corner of your eye and you have to fish it out?

These things never happen to Cantra yos'Phelium.

Writer Babble

This afternoon, after gym, I took Sabu (an AlphaSmart Dana) to the blue chair in the living room window and sat down to do Fast Draft. I was joined in this endeavor by Mozart, who tried to figure out how best to /i/n/t/e/r/f/e/r/e assist me in my work. He tried sitting on the back of the chair. He tried sitting on the window sill. He tried curling up in the cat cuddle right next to the chair. He tried sitting on the arm of the chair. At last, he found his position: between me and the right arm rest. This is a big cat and I'm still not sure how he fit, but he did, and promptly fell into the nap of the just. Inundated with sleep rays, I soldiered on, sketching in the shape of the chapter through dialog. When I was done, I brought Sabu back to the desktop, sync'd, opened the file and started layering. Which has consumed the late afternoon and early evening. The chapter's not quite done, but I'm pretty happy with it.

I would really like to have a complete second draft done before we go to SheVaCon, so the story can sit and rest while we're out of context for a week. Don't know if I'm going to make it, since Sunday I'll have to break out of this project and settle into Sword of Orion for awhile.

I'm trying not to worry at this point about the book being too long, though there's a lot of story that remains to be told before we find safe orbit. I figure, if worse comes to worst, I can pull the first 20,000 words. I'd hate to do it, because I think it adds resonance to some of the later action, but the story could survive without it -- and I don't have to make that decision tonight.

There's also a significant Chunk of Stuff down there in the middle that's just ...the wrong shape -- lumpen and thick. It's a fairly self-contained section, and its infelicities are not enough to distort the action that follows, so I've been resisting the urge to go back to cut and shape, preferring to make forward wordage. Still, it does sorta niggle. On the other hand, this whole book is going to have to have at least one -- and probably two -- more thorough passes to bring it up to spec. Argh. Keep your eyes on the page.

In other writing news, the fine folks at Buzzy Multimedia promise us a CD with the rough cut of the first chapter of the Local Custom audiobook RSN. I'm really eager to hear this...
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Project: Crystal Dragon, Second Draft
New Words: 2336
Total Words: 82,687
Goal: 150,000+/-