Happy Turkey Day!
Our turkey is buttered, with cloves and rosemary and garlic and paprika and salt and pepper...the apartment smells amazing. You all wish you were here. ^_^
So, in the editing of my novel, I am on page 61 of 168 in the manuscript. Originally, as a modified NaNo challenge, I wanted to finish the editing before the end of the month. Obviously, this will not be happening, but I am holding out hope that I'll get to the halfway mark if I work my ass off for the next few days. And then I'll be editing like crazy all during December to reach the end by New Year's.
This is about the time I start soliciting for readers. I need to know where the flow gets interrupted or rough, where I start getting too wordy with cramming in too much information, when my people slip out of character, where I have plot holes or don't adequately explain things, and when I just plain don't make sense. Of course, technical notes are welcome too (grammar, spelling, etc).
Any volunteers?
In other news, I really should start being more proactive on hunting down some job that is not in retail before I injure someone for being too stupid. No one in particular, but 2 years was much longer than I anticipated doing this. I need to challenge my brain a bit more. Sunday or Monday, I plan to email the Smith CDO for suggestions on other places I can look, in case I don't get into the scholarship program to study in Japan. My language skills are not what they want and I'm not sure I can pass the university's entrance exam, anyway. They at least might be a able to point me at more options.
66 & 67. Decoy Princess; Princess at Sea, Dawn Cook
Yeah, I know--I've read these before and tore them apart. So why did I read them again? Uh...still trying to figure that one out. I enjoyed them more this time around because I wasn't trying to analyze them, and I guess it also helped that I haven't read much in the way of high fantasy very recently. And I still love her world concept so I hope she writes more in it. I know she's thoroughly capable of writing much better than this because I've read her Truth series. At least this time through, I only really started twitching whenever she used "nauseous" when she should have used "nauseated." The difference between those two is HUGE and although just about everyone uses it incorrectly, I feel like she should know better.
68. China Mountain Zhang, Maureen McHugh
Another one I've read before, but not since my Spec Fic class second year at Smith. It's as good now as it was then, though it's more disjointed in the various perspectives than I prefer.
I won't reach 100 by the end of the year, or even 75 (though I might have read 75 books this year...but I didn't start keeping count until later). Right now, I'm focused on other things. Like writing. And my Monbusho application. And maybe finding a job that is NOT retail.
How is your turkey day?
So, in the editing of my novel, I am on page 61 of 168 in the manuscript. Originally, as a modified NaNo challenge, I wanted to finish the editing before the end of the month. Obviously, this will not be happening, but I am holding out hope that I'll get to the halfway mark if I work my ass off for the next few days. And then I'll be editing like crazy all during December to reach the end by New Year's.
This is about the time I start soliciting for readers. I need to know where the flow gets interrupted or rough, where I start getting too wordy with cramming in too much information, when my people slip out of character, where I have plot holes or don't adequately explain things, and when I just plain don't make sense. Of course, technical notes are welcome too (grammar, spelling, etc).
Any volunteers?
In other news, I really should start being more proactive on hunting down some job that is not in retail before I injure someone for being too stupid. No one in particular, but 2 years was much longer than I anticipated doing this. I need to challenge my brain a bit more. Sunday or Monday, I plan to email the Smith CDO for suggestions on other places I can look, in case I don't get into the scholarship program to study in Japan. My language skills are not what they want and I'm not sure I can pass the university's entrance exam, anyway. They at least might be a able to point me at more options.
66 & 67. Decoy Princess; Princess at Sea, Dawn Cook
Yeah, I know--I've read these before and tore them apart. So why did I read them again? Uh...still trying to figure that one out. I enjoyed them more this time around because I wasn't trying to analyze them, and I guess it also helped that I haven't read much in the way of high fantasy very recently. And I still love her world concept so I hope she writes more in it. I know she's thoroughly capable of writing much better than this because I've read her Truth series. At least this time through, I only really started twitching whenever she used "nauseous" when she should have used "nauseated." The difference between those two is HUGE and although just about everyone uses it incorrectly, I feel like she should know better.
68. China Mountain Zhang, Maureen McHugh
Another one I've read before, but not since my Spec Fic class second year at Smith. It's as good now as it was then, though it's more disjointed in the various perspectives than I prefer.
I won't reach 100 by the end of the year, or even 75 (though I might have read 75 books this year...but I didn't start keeping count until later). Right now, I'm focused on other things. Like writing. And my Monbusho application. And maybe finding a job that is NOT retail.
How is your turkey day?