Slogging Slightly Faster
Tuesday, July 13th, 2004 06:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniMade a buncha needful phone calls and paid bills this morning (Hey! There's still money left in the checkbook. Have I done something wrong?)
After lunch, I went window shopping on the web. Found a pair of leather jeans to replace them what got too big, and at a not-absurd price -- which I wasn't looking for -- and failed to find a dragon leather (as distinct from dragon-leather) belt to replace mine of yore. Ah, well. Now I have something to shop for.
The book has progressed by a couple hundred words, in between web-shopping. The book always crawls at the beginning. I remind myself. It's hard not to be impatient, though.
I don't know if I said. It's looking like four viewpoints/storylines, with everyone needing to meet on the corner of Twelfth and Elm at 10:32 p.m. Sunday or All Is Ashes. Otherwise known as a return to business as usual. There are some ...difficulties inherent in writing a story with interwoven plotlines, but I like the ability to jump from one crisis to another, winding the tension tighter with each. Gives the story a nice sense of speed and almost-out-of-controlness.
Well, I like it, anyhow *g*
Got a couple of cat-related chores to catch up, then a shower and some reading. So far, I'm moderately amused by Amulet -- at this point, I'm reading more for Bartimaeus' footnotes than for the history of Nicholas, who strikes me as rather humorless for an eleven-year-old boy. Perhaps he'll grow on me.
After lunch, I went window shopping on the web. Found a pair of leather jeans to replace them what got too big, and at a not-absurd price -- which I wasn't looking for -- and failed to find a dragon leather (as distinct from dragon-leather) belt to replace mine of yore. Ah, well. Now I have something to shop for.
The book has progressed by a couple hundred words, in between web-shopping. The book always crawls at the beginning. I remind myself. It's hard not to be impatient, though.
I don't know if I said. It's looking like four viewpoints/storylines, with everyone needing to meet on the corner of Twelfth and Elm at 10:32 p.m. Sunday or All Is Ashes. Otherwise known as a return to business as usual. There are some ...difficulties inherent in writing a story with interwoven plotlines, but I like the ability to jump from one crisis to another, winding the tension tighter with each. Gives the story a nice sense of speed and almost-out-of-controlness.
Well, I like it, anyhow *g*
Got a couple of cat-related chores to catch up, then a shower and some reading. So far, I'm moderately amused by Amulet -- at this point, I'm reading more for Bartimaeus' footnotes than for the history of Nicholas, who strikes me as rather humorless for an eleven-year-old boy. Perhaps he'll grow on me.
