In the spirit of five random things make a post...

#1

I need to go somewhere with trees. Maybe Glendalough. Two nights in a hostel midweek shouldn't be impossible, don't you think?

#2

Monday my exam results come back. Witness, if you please, my nail-chewing agony of anticipation.

This is not sarcasm.

#3

I have discovered a fatal flaw in the book.

It lacks stakes. Tension. Fraughtness. All those little compelling things.

In short, my characters are having it too easy.

Ground-up rewrite will be necessary. But first, I write the next 20K words, get some idea of the spine of the book - because the plot is not going to change, it's just going to mean something different - and decide whether I have the balls to write the lesbian love affair.

So to speak.

#4

And today, for joy, I get to go to my cousin's 21st. We have nothing in common, and I'm an anti-social introverted lump at the best of times, so this is going to be work.

#5

I wonder if I could afford to go to the World Fantasy Con in 2008?

In the spirit of five random things make a post...

#1

I need to go somewhere with trees. Maybe Glendalough. Two nights in a hostel midweek shouldn't be impossible, don't you think?

#2

Monday my exam results come back. Witness, if you please, my nail-chewing agony of anticipation.

This is not sarcasm.

#3

I have discovered a fatal flaw in the book.

It lacks stakes. Tension. Fraughtness. All those little compelling things.

In short, my characters are having it too easy.

Ground-up rewrite will be necessary. But first, I write the next 20K words, get some idea of the spine of the book - because the plot is not going to change, it's just going to mean something different - and decide whether I have the balls to write the lesbian love affair.

So to speak.

#4

And today, for joy, I get to go to my cousin's 21st. We have nothing in common, and I'm an anti-social introverted lump at the best of times, so this is going to be work.

#5

I wonder if I could afford to go to the World Fantasy Con in 2008?

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So I chickened out of the cousin's 21st. What can I say? I'm a wuss, and, well, her kind of people aren't exactly my kind of people, and I'm not really a people person anyway.

Family duty and ties of obligation being what they are, of course I feel guilty.

But I did kinda sorta figure out the rest of the b&^k while watching Stargate and eating chocolate, so I daresay the evening wasn't a total wash.

I probably managed to offend my grandmother again, though.

(no subject)

So I chickened out of the cousin's 21st. What can I say? I'm a wuss, and, well, her kind of people aren't exactly my kind of people, and I'm not really a people person anyway.

Family duty and ties of obligation being what they are, of course I feel guilty.

But I did kinda sorta figure out the rest of the b&^k while watching Stargate and eating chocolate, so I daresay the evening wasn't a total wash.

I probably managed to offend my grandmother again, though.