In which writing is a science
Saturday, December 20th, 2008 06:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniAhem.
Fledgling the Final Draft stands at 99,323 solid words. Professor Dochayn tried to change gender on me part-way through the narrative, but I was too wily for her/him. And! Looking up from 'way down here inside the sentences, I discover that I need to hit two more plot points -- which is to say, figure out how they resolve -- and I'm home. The last bit can more-or-less stand as written, so we're likely looking closer to 110,000 for a finished manuscript than 120,000. Suddenly, this is doable.
It's possible that I need to go back 'mong the solid words and plant one more hook, thereby revealing the phrase "solid words" for the sham it is. I've printed out the Book As It Stands and will do a fast-read tomorrow, just to be sure that the story is, yanno, written in English, and fails of being entirely opaque.
As it happens, tomorrow may be a good reading day, for we are expecting, first, snow, and, after that, snow. The weatherbeans predict 10 to 18 inches on the ground by the time the skies clear early Monday afternoon. In anticipation of down wires, The Leewit is even now taking on electrons.
In other news, we've made reservations for dinner at the Lucky Panda on Christmas the Day; having decided that life is complex enough without adding Feast Preparation into the mix. It will in any case be a Working Yule; I have the week between Christmas and New Year's off from the day job, eleven glorious days in a row! Maybe I'll be able to read a book that's not mine, or at least finish the book I've been reading for two months. The first disk of The Last Airbender arrived from Netflix; maybe we'll have time to view it.
Oh, and the page proofs for Longeye are in-house, with a please-return-by date of January 2. Steve will be taking the lead on that project.
...and then, of course, there's the Saltation rewrite on the horizon.
Fledgling the Final Draft stands at 99,323 solid words. Professor Dochayn tried to change gender on me part-way through the narrative, but I was too wily for her/him. And! Looking up from 'way down here inside the sentences, I discover that I need to hit two more plot points -- which is to say, figure out how they resolve -- and I'm home. The last bit can more-or-less stand as written, so we're likely looking closer to 110,000 for a finished manuscript than 120,000. Suddenly, this is doable.
It's possible that I need to go back 'mong the solid words and plant one more hook, thereby revealing the phrase "solid words" for the sham it is. I've printed out the Book As It Stands and will do a fast-read tomorrow, just to be sure that the story is, yanno, written in English, and fails of being entirely opaque.
As it happens, tomorrow may be a good reading day, for we are expecting, first, snow, and, after that, snow. The weatherbeans predict 10 to 18 inches on the ground by the time the skies clear early Monday afternoon. In anticipation of down wires, The Leewit is even now taking on electrons.
In other news, we've made reservations for dinner at the Lucky Panda on Christmas the Day; having decided that life is complex enough without adding Feast Preparation into the mix. It will in any case be a Working Yule; I have the week between Christmas and New Year's off from the day job, eleven glorious days in a row! Maybe I'll be able to read a book that's not mine, or at least finish the book I've been reading for two months. The first disk of The Last Airbender arrived from Netflix; maybe we'll have time to view it.
Oh, and the page proofs for Longeye are in-house, with a please-return-by date of January 2. Steve will be taking the lead on that project.
...and then, of course, there's the Saltation rewrite on the horizon.
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Date: 2008-12-20 11:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-20 11:59 pm (UTC)will do a fast-read tomorrow, just to be sure that the story is, yanno, written in English, and fails of being entirely opaque. Doin' some of that myself, for the file that Must Go Away on Monday, damn it. Halfway through and reaching the fuggedabout it stage.
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Date: 2008-12-21 12:25 am (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1uZ_W7atDE
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Date: 2008-12-21 04:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-21 12:22 pm (UTC)Good luck with the book-fixing.