Brave new etc.s
Aug. 23rd, 2006 08:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrissaDespite my grousing of yesterday, Sampo revisions are actually going pretty well again. I have reminded myself once again that I do not work sequentially. There is no reason I should work sequentially, not at this stage of revisions any more than earlier. (I think there is a time where you have to look at things sequentially, because that's how the reader reads the book. But that time is later, when some of the gaping chasms have been filled in.) It's one of the most basic things, and yet I forget so often. I should make myself a sign for on my monitor. Is there anything you know about yourself and how you do things, but you keep forgetting anyway? Or am I the only one who's dumb this way?
I have improved so much over the writing of this book. The down side is that I was so very unready to write this book when I started it, and so there are, in some places, more revision bits than book. But I feel like I've emerged into some sunshiney novel-writing glade, blinking and muttering about brave new etc.s that have such etc.s etc.
Also I'm in that stage where I want to write everything next. Everything. Well, everything that's mine, anyway. Which probably means I should keep on with the revisions, quietly, and maybe a bit of "Carter Hall Judges the Lines" when I feel like working longhand, and see what emerges from it all.
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greykev is coming through here later today, in search of books and food and a dry place to rest his head. (Possibly also a wet place to rest his butt -- I don't know how much the hot tub was a factor in his vacation decisions.) Kev is the world's easiest houseguest. Not sure how long he'll be here (except for "not very"), but that fact that he'll be here for most of today is probably the only thing that's keeping me from going insane at the fact that my Veronica Mars Season 2 DVDs haven't shown up yet. I've never felt this way about a TV show before (<-- insert breathless ingenue voice there, if you like) It's disconcerting. I'm only supposed to be this excited about the release dates of books.
I have improved so much over the writing of this book. The down side is that I was so very unready to write this book when I started it, and so there are, in some places, more revision bits than book. But I feel like I've emerged into some sunshiney novel-writing glade, blinking and muttering about brave new etc.s that have such etc.s etc.
Also I'm in that stage where I want to write everything next. Everything. Well, everything that's mine, anyway. Which probably means I should keep on with the revisions, quietly, and maybe a bit of "Carter Hall Judges the Lines" when I feel like working longhand, and see what emerges from it all.
greykev is coming through here later today, in search of books and food and a dry place to rest his head. (Possibly also a wet place to rest his butt -- I don't know how much the hot tub was a factor in his vacation decisions.) Kev is the world's easiest houseguest. Not sure how long he'll be here (except for "not very"), but that fact that he'll be here for most of today is probably the only thing that's keeping me from going insane at the fact that my Veronica Mars Season 2 DVDs haven't shown up yet. I've never felt this way about a TV show before (<-- insert breathless ingenue voice there, if you like) It's disconcerting. I'm only supposed to be this excited about the release dates of books.
