Anything Can Happen Day
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006 04:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniLots of good discussion and insight in the Controversy thread. Just to clear something up -- I don't mean to suggest that an author should skip hisorher homework, suspend the laws of physics without adequate explanation, or other examples of sloppy worldbuilding. It's certainly the author's job to make the world she's positing believable, and then to work within the rules she's set up. Says she who spent 'way too much time getting cozy with tide charts and ephemerides in order to lend the last book verisimilitude. And, dern it, I had to rework two scenes that had been built around the tide being high, because, um, it was low at the hours stated.
In other news...
Some feedback is already in from beta readers for Carousel Tides -- you people read fast! -- and I had mapped out a really cool story for the original scheduled for Allies, only to recall two points that make it impossible. Argh. Back to the drawing board, me.
My gift certificate loot arrived today -- Julie Phillips' Tiptree biography and the first volume of Richard Burton's Narrative of a Pilgrimage... and the Ormandy excerpts of The Nutcracker. I'm a happy woman.
Mine editor called with another assignment and much praise for last week's story. I'd forgotten how immediate is the gratification of writing for a newspaper -- even a weekly. Did the interview on Sunday, emailed the article on Monday, and it appeared on the front page on Friday.
Yesterday saw a trip to Waterville withkinzel, where we stopped for chats at Childrens Book Cellar and the Framemakers then hit the Lebanese bakery (sfeha, yum!), and Staples. Much damage was wrought at Staples; I really should be banned from office supply stores. *looks over loot and smiles*
...going to go sit down with a pad of paper now, and figure out how that story goes together...
In other news...
Some feedback is already in from beta readers for Carousel Tides -- you people read fast! -- and I had mapped out a really cool story for the original scheduled for Allies, only to recall two points that make it impossible. Argh. Back to the drawing board, me.
My gift certificate loot arrived today -- Julie Phillips' Tiptree biography and the first volume of Richard Burton's Narrative of a Pilgrimage... and the Ormandy excerpts of The Nutcracker. I'm a happy woman.
Mine editor called with another assignment and much praise for last week's story. I'd forgotten how immediate is the gratification of writing for a newspaper -- even a weekly. Did the interview on Sunday, emailed the article on Monday, and it appeared on the front page on Friday.
Yesterday saw a trip to Waterville with
kinzel, where we stopped for chats at Childrens Book Cellar and the Framemakers then hit the Lebanese bakery (sfeha, yum!), and Staples. Much damage was wrought at Staples; I really should be banned from office supply stores. *looks over loot and smiles*...going to go sit down with a pad of paper now, and figure out how that story goes together...
