Go Sox!
So I'm 2 for 2 for good Sox games at Fenway Park.
The weather cooled down quite a bit, with a nice wind for most of the game, and we had good seats in the outfield between first and second, so we had a good view of just about everything in the Park (though Fenway is small, so it's difficult to have a bad view). The Indians were doing very well in the first inning, but the Sox pulled it together and got a brief lead before the Indians hit a homer with one on base. And then I kept turning away at the bottom of the ninth with two out, and the Indians pitcher kept hitting the Sox hitters! So they got three on base and the fourth hit a double with three balls and two strikes! Very, very exciting.
Would have been even better had the Yankees lost, but there's only so much you can ask for.
In other news, I wound up refining pivotal parts of Glamour in great detail, and all to the advantage of my story. Largely, it has to do with much of what the characters do after the game. Orginally, I had them separate all the way down at the Kenmore T-stop on the train. Passing the stop on our walk to the car (parked in Cambridge, you think I'm insane enough to park close to Fenway on a game night?), I took a picture of the people clustered by the Fenway stop. In short: there is no way they would have gotten near the train before Rianna's claustrophobia around people taller than herself kicked in. These people? There wasn't breathing room between them, nevermind space for 4 people to squeeze through and down to the station they're renovating!
As a result, there is now a much less dramatic but more logical progression of events. Ian and Ben actually conference and agree to the split up, as Adelle prowls on ahead, forgetting that Rianna has Issues with large crowds. All to the better, I say, as that scene was bothering me quite a bit (but not as bad as some things that needed whole rewrites).
I think Rianna and Ian wind up on the other side of Harvard Bridge, just because the one they're currently on is rather boring, and I think it makes much more sense both in the direction which she runs from him and the T stop in Central Square (which is where they're ostensibly walking).
In short: very happy and productive evening.
Also, I should not be allowed outside my apartment with my wallet, as I'll stop and buy comic books.
The weather cooled down quite a bit, with a nice wind for most of the game, and we had good seats in the outfield between first and second, so we had a good view of just about everything in the Park (though Fenway is small, so it's difficult to have a bad view). The Indians were doing very well in the first inning, but the Sox pulled it together and got a brief lead before the Indians hit a homer with one on base. And then I kept turning away at the bottom of the ninth with two out, and the Indians pitcher kept hitting the Sox hitters! So they got three on base and the fourth hit a double with three balls and two strikes! Very, very exciting.
Would have been even better had the Yankees lost, but there's only so much you can ask for.
In other news, I wound up refining pivotal parts of Glamour in great detail, and all to the advantage of my story. Largely, it has to do with much of what the characters do after the game. Orginally, I had them separate all the way down at the Kenmore T-stop on the train. Passing the stop on our walk to the car (parked in Cambridge, you think I'm insane enough to park close to Fenway on a game night?), I took a picture of the people clustered by the Fenway stop. In short: there is no way they would have gotten near the train before Rianna's claustrophobia around people taller than herself kicked in. These people? There wasn't breathing room between them, nevermind space for 4 people to squeeze through and down to the station they're renovating!
As a result, there is now a much less dramatic but more logical progression of events. Ian and Ben actually conference and agree to the split up, as Adelle prowls on ahead, forgetting that Rianna has Issues with large crowds. All to the better, I say, as that scene was bothering me quite a bit (but not as bad as some things that needed whole rewrites).
I think Rianna and Ian wind up on the other side of Harvard Bridge, just because the one they're currently on is rather boring, and I think it makes much more sense both in the direction which she runs from him and the T stop in Central Square (which is where they're ostensibly walking).
In short: very happy and productive evening.
Also, I should not be allowed outside my apartment with my wallet, as I'll stop and buy comic books.