And we’ll have fun, fun, fun, ’til her daddy takes the Tbird away…

[rolanni]

When last we saw our plucky heroine, she had sworn a return to the discussion of compiling a Weird Word List, RSN.

Since swearing that awful vow, she has, with her husband-coauthor gone to the Rockland Public Library, where they talked about subjects Divers and Various to a small, but appreciative audience.

She then returned home and commenced in with her bit of Dragon Ship revisions.  This entailed a good deal of picking out of stitches, setting new stitches, bringing Stuff up, deleting other stuff, rewriting a couple scenes from a different POV  — in general, all possible, needful work, but fiddly and time-consuming.

The revisions were emailed back to Madame the Editor early this afternoon, just in time for the galleys for a short story which is part of an upcoming anthology to arrive, the editor citing a short turnaround.  Steve’s reading those now; I’ll make my pass tomorrow morning, over — all together now! — coffee!  Sadly, but in all likelihood, my third or fourth cup of coffee.

Steve and I are determined to watch a movie tonight; we have Hugo in from Netflix.  Tomorrow, after my pass over the story, I must and shall begin the end of year/end of game bookkeeping for SRM Publisher.

I will also, honest, contrive to get back to the word list, ’cause that deadline’s not getting any longer.  Funny how they never do.

Also on the table for blog discussion is a request to describe how I learned to write in a particular voice, and! another post about Voice, and how Science Fiction isn’t only Stories of the Far Future, and why extrapolating from our own world into the future is a mug’s game, anyway.

So!  Lots to look forward to, but right now?

I am going to watch that movie.

 

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

Hugo

[susan kelly (from livejournal.com)]

'D be very interested to know what you thought of Hugo. Saw it at the movies with the best friend & her 12yo & nearly-15yo kidlets; I couldn't decide if the filmmaker wanted to make a story about a filmmaker or a kid who lived in the bowels of the station... I think that would have been the better story...

Re: Hugo

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

I thought that the story of the filmmaker and the story of the little kid who lived in the station were inextricably intertwined. The story was about the interconnectedness of all things, after all; if you lost either the filmmaker or the little boy, you lost the sense of the movie the story.

Msc

[catherine ives (from livejournal.com)]

You might want to read the book. I think it's called Hugo Cabre. It's a young adult book. Very popular. I liked the movie.

What does "a mug's game" mean?

misc

[catherine ives (from livejournal.com)]

The book is "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick. I liked the movie way better than the book.

Mug: from dictionary.com.

a drinking cup with a handle made out of chinaware

The face, the mouth, an exaggerated facial expression, grimace as in acting. To mug for the camera.

a thug, ruffian or other criminal.

to mug: to attack or rob someone violently. Rob, burlarize, steal.

No sign of what "a mug's game" could mean.

[kalilama.livejournal.com]

a mug's game (British informal)

an activity that will not make you happy or successful

Usage notes:
A mug is a person who is easily deceived.

Cambridge Idioms Dictionary, 2nd ed. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006. Reproduced with permission. (I got it from the Free Dictionary online