Suddenly, words.
I had a lovely long weekend, full of friendship and tasty food and LARP, and then Saturday night I sat down with the thing from NaNoWriMo and about a thousand words happened. (I am in the messy bit where the Big Climax has happened and now I have to do all this wrapping-up which is harder than The Damned Middle, I swear.)
I sent out the first book of the trilogy to be printed out on dead trees and comb-bound (at the place where I used to work, though thankfully there was nobody there who would recognize me; it has gotten much larger and fancier, but still the powerful sense-memory of WOW THAT SMELLS LIKE COPIER TONER. I worked at a mom'n'pop version of Kinko's, back when that was a separate entity; fun fact, FedEx Office was unable to bind my (double-sided print) manuscript because too many pages at the margins I wanted. Not only did mom'n'pop do it with lightning-fast turnaround, it was 1/3 less expensive.
I also stopped by the local art supply store to buy a number of brightly colored pens, and I have a shiny new Leuchtturm hardcover notebook, and I am going to use these tools to tear this book apart and make it better. Current plan is to read through the whole thing making notes in assorted colors, then go through again with the fantastic feedback that first readers gave me, and then poke at it until I have an idea how to fix the problems. I think, at base, it is a reasonably acceptable book. It is probably possible to submit it in its current form and have it accepted. However, it is not the best it can be, so back to the chopping block it goes. (I mean, also, 6 more years of writing experience since I first set hands to keyboard, AND now I know where the next 2 books go even if they're in worse shape than this one, so. Lots to apply.)
The other thing I did over the weekend was catch up on NCIS:LA and I am in the middle of a two-parter and extremely upset about it and possessed of entirely too many feelings about the entirety of this show.
Also, we caught up on Lucifer last night and I'm a little frustrated by something in "Quid Pro Ho" (spoilers to follow). I was saying, during Chloe's beautiful speech on the stand about trusting her partner, that I'm so glad she and Lucifer aren't kissing because what a great example of a solid friendship and could we just have MORE OF THAT, and then there was kissing, and like - I'm ok with this ship, I honestly am, but I liked it better as friends. Also, I'm miffed about ~the reveal of why Chloe is special~ like come on why can't she just be herself, why she gotta be special, I LIKED HER SO MUCH AS JUST A DETECTIVE.
still aggressively in love with the show, though. Amenadiel pouts so beautifully.
And now, it is time for me to go enjoy the new FFXIV patch and getting viciously punched in the feelings some more.
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I sent out the first book of the trilogy to be printed out on dead trees and comb-bound (at the place where I used to work, though thankfully there was nobody there who would recognize me; it has gotten much larger and fancier, but still the powerful sense-memory of WOW THAT SMELLS LIKE COPIER TONER. I worked at a mom'n'pop version of Kinko's, back when that was a separate entity; fun fact, FedEx Office was unable to bind my (double-sided print) manuscript because too many pages at the margins I wanted. Not only did mom'n'pop do it with lightning-fast turnaround, it was 1/3 less expensive.
I also stopped by the local art supply store to buy a number of brightly colored pens, and I have a shiny new Leuchtturm hardcover notebook, and I am going to use these tools to tear this book apart and make it better. Current plan is to read through the whole thing making notes in assorted colors, then go through again with the fantastic feedback that first readers gave me, and then poke at it until I have an idea how to fix the problems. I think, at base, it is a reasonably acceptable book. It is probably possible to submit it in its current form and have it accepted. However, it is not the best it can be, so back to the chopping block it goes. (I mean, also, 6 more years of writing experience since I first set hands to keyboard, AND now I know where the next 2 books go even if they're in worse shape than this one, so. Lots to apply.)
The other thing I did over the weekend was catch up on NCIS:LA and I am in the middle of a two-parter and extremely upset about it and possessed of entirely too many feelings about the entirety of this show.
Also, we caught up on Lucifer last night and I'm a little frustrated by something in "Quid Pro Ho" (spoilers to follow). I was saying, during Chloe's beautiful speech on the stand about trusting her partner, that I'm so glad she and Lucifer aren't kissing because what a great example of a solid friendship and could we just have MORE OF THAT, and then there was kissing, and like - I'm ok with this ship, I honestly am, but I liked it better as friends. Also, I'm miffed about ~the reveal of why Chloe is special~ like come on why can't she just be herself, why she gotta be special, I LIKED HER SO MUCH AS JUST A DETECTIVE.
still aggressively in love with the show, though. Amenadiel pouts so beautifully.
And now, it is time for me to go enjoy the new FFXIV patch and getting viciously punched in the feelings some more.
I've posted this at http://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/1169653.html and you may comment there or here. On Dreamwidth, this entry has
comments.