The worst thing about having good beta readers is that they're always right.

More galling is that often among the things they are right about, are things I secretly knew but was hoping no one would notice. I am, apparently, not a good enough bullshitter. They catch me out every time. :-) Gotta just do the rewriting ( Read more... )

76500 / 80000 words. 96% done!

3500 more words to go, and 14 days to do it in.

Last night after jewelry class (wherein I accomplished nothing except learning three ways how not to construct the thing I'm trying to construct) I actually sat down to write. After puttering around a bit, 400 words fell out of my head and ended the scene I had been ( Read more... )

Updated word count!



74850 / 80000 words. 94% done ( Read more... )

Happy birthday (today) to darkfantasist and happy early birthday (tomorrow) to msisolakAs my grandmother used to say, "Getting older is better than the alternative ( Read more... )

First: Dear neighbors downstairs, what the hell are you doing? Moving furniture? With elephants?

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Got my teeth cleaned and my hair done yesterday, then a most superb dinner with swimtech and our friend Alice (who isn't on LJ, as far as I know). They knew of a little place in the West Village, your typical teensy New York restaurant known ( Read more... )

70000 / 75000 words. 93% done!

250 words/day will finish this before WFC. But damn, at this stage, those 250 are hard.

I HAVE WORKING CABLE! They finally sent a competent cable guy--sixth time's the charm!--and got everything cleared up ( Read more... )

Was kept awake by a nagging cough last night, so I took Nyquil to deal with it...at 2am. I'm pretty sure I sleep-drove to work this morning. Word to the wise: only take Nyquil if it's at least 8 hours before you're supposed to wake up. Also, maybe don't take OTC medications that expired three years ago ( Read more... )

Wrote maybe 500 words over the weekend, and another 300 Monday night. The weekend stuff was a scene that I broke off in the middle of because it's going nowhere--I hate when that happens, but swimtech rightfully points out that sometimes you just have to "write it out of your system." There's no way to tell it's going nowhere until I actually try writing ( Read more... )

66250 / 75000 words. 88% done!

Which means 3250 words in 17 days. Not a fast rate, but decent for me.

The sad part is that most of those 3000 new words suck. But words is words.