Comments | greygirlbeast: "...something like the sun fell..."

greygirlbeast

"...something like the sun fell..."

Feb 15, 2013 12:52

Well, I see they finally made the LJ bullshit redesign fuck-up mandatory. Anyway...

Quick, because there's too much work and not enough of me. Wednesday was a complete disaster. I realized there was a HUGE problem with the scene I'd written over the two previous days (Red Delicious, Chapter Two). And I'm not good with even minor rewrites (as ( Read more... )

copyeditors, astronomy, red delicious, tunguska, too much work, proofreading, computer stuff, procrastination, revision, the ape's wife

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shanejayell February 15 2013, 16:57:52 UTC

Kinda scary considering the OTHER close meteor we're expecting. But still cool.

ashlyme February 15 2013, 17:11:21 UTC

That's impressive, the news from Chelyabinsk. Have you ever written about Tunguska?

Just got my copy of Alabaster: Wolves! I'll set about it later.

greygirlbeast February 15 2013, 17:32:33 UTC

Have you ever written about Tunguska?

Hmmmm....I can't recall.

sovay February 15 2013, 17:21:58 UTC

I awoke to the news of the largest confirmed meteor impact with the Earth since the 1908 Tunguska explosion.

That is pretty damn awesome. And 2012 DA14 is still coming in.

greygirlbeast February 15 2013, 17:30:55 UTC

And 2012 DA14 is still coming in.

Yup.

martianmooncrab February 15 2013, 19:34:56 UTC

Meteorite hunters will be frothing over that site.. I watched the vids they had on the news last night, and they were still wondering if it was a fireball or a true strike.

aarongp February 15 2013, 22:06:24 UTC

Yesterday, I calmly sat down and fixed the mess - which, while genuinely a messy mess, wasn't actually that big a deal, after all - and wrote an additional 1,504 words.

Yay for you for righting the apple cart. Hopefully you have a less bumpy road ahead.