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hawkwing_lb#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?
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?
