HALP!
Not sure what to do, so any ideas will be appreciated...
I'm considering learning to drive as this will greatly increase the likelihood that I get another job. However, at £20 for every hour of lessons and another £50 for every test, it's not going to come cheap. Moreover, there are other things I want to do in the next few months that will also cost monies (the Doctor Who Experience thing, getting tDP to my editor again and saving for Finland). Given that I'm on £100 per week and am already about £50 overdrawn on my bank account, it's going to be hard to afford each of these things, so adding another expense is not ideal. But, learning to drive will, as I said, make getting another job easier. It may also mean that travel expenses to London for the DWE will not be so bad (I have no idea how much car travel costs, obviously).
But another major factor is the fact that I AM TERRIFIED OF CARS and this may impede my ability to learn quickly or well. I mean, I'm not a good swimmer, so if I drive into a lake I'm fucked. D:
On the note of tDP editorship, I'm probably going to be getting it all finalised by 31st of January (it's more convenient for my editor and for me, actually). I'm relatively happy with this 12th draft. A lot of the back story is getting tied up nicely, I think. A great help was going through the text and noting down every name and place that is mentioned and then writing a little description for each. Like a glossary, I suppose. But, in doing so, I recapped each character's history in more detail and was able to incorporate those details into the manuscript. The main one being the tohar invasion of Tsayad seven years before tDP - a glimpse of which we see in Meg's Nightmare induced flashback. This invasion has become central to the politics of a lot of the events. Mahal makes mention of it, as does Shomer and a few others.
Speaking of back stories, once I've sent tDP off, I'm going to start work on The Sea-Stone Sword, the first part of Rob's back story. I'll post the chapters of the first draft on my other journal, if you wish to read them. I'll even make a little banner for it today, probably. If I do, I'll edit this entry to include it. :)
{EDIT: HERE IT BE:
That's interesting, isn't it?}
I'm going to plan it out first, as much as I can. I have no idea how long it will be, but I don't imagine it being as long as TDP because there's only one POV and not two. Curse of Facen (wich I'm thinking of re-naming at the moment, to 'The Ocean's Eye') will have three POVs and Timeless Stone and Flame Filled Sky will each have four.
We shall see, I suppose.
And finally, here's an amusing thing...
Ho ho ho.
I'm considering learning to drive as this will greatly increase the likelihood that I get another job. However, at £20 for every hour of lessons and another £50 for every test, it's not going to come cheap. Moreover, there are other things I want to do in the next few months that will also cost monies (the Doctor Who Experience thing, getting tDP to my editor again and saving for Finland). Given that I'm on £100 per week and am already about £50 overdrawn on my bank account, it's going to be hard to afford each of these things, so adding another expense is not ideal. But, learning to drive will, as I said, make getting another job easier. It may also mean that travel expenses to London for the DWE will not be so bad (I have no idea how much car travel costs, obviously).
But another major factor is the fact that I AM TERRIFIED OF CARS and this may impede my ability to learn quickly or well. I mean, I'm not a good swimmer, so if I drive into a lake I'm fucked. D:
On the note of tDP editorship, I'm probably going to be getting it all finalised by 31st of January (it's more convenient for my editor and for me, actually). I'm relatively happy with this 12th draft. A lot of the back story is getting tied up nicely, I think. A great help was going through the text and noting down every name and place that is mentioned and then writing a little description for each. Like a glossary, I suppose. But, in doing so, I recapped each character's history in more detail and was able to incorporate those details into the manuscript. The main one being the tohar invasion of Tsayad seven years before tDP - a glimpse of which we see in Meg's Nightmare induced flashback. This invasion has become central to the politics of a lot of the events. Mahal makes mention of it, as does Shomer and a few others.
Speaking of back stories, once I've sent tDP off, I'm going to start work on The Sea-Stone Sword, the first part of Rob's back story. I'll post the chapters of the first draft on my other journal, if you wish to read them. I'll even make a little banner for it today, probably. If I do, I'll edit this entry to include it. :)
{EDIT: HERE IT BE:
That's interesting, isn't it?}
I'm going to plan it out first, as much as I can. I have no idea how long it will be, but I don't imagine it being as long as TDP because there's only one POV and not two. Curse of Facen (wich I'm thinking of re-naming at the moment, to 'The Ocean's Eye') will have three POVs and Timeless Stone and Flame Filled Sky will each have four.
We shall see, I suppose.
And finally, here's an amusing thing...
Ho ho ho.