Texts I send my daughter: Hey, kiddo. Good morning. I’d like some sketches for the book I’m working on. One of them would be of a young woman, about 20 years old, half white, half Sri Lankan, so looking sort of like you but older. She has long brown-black hair in a braid down her […]
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Had a little trouble sleeping because I forgot my meds last night, oops, but on the plus side, was up by 5, had coffee and buttered toast and straightened up the first floor a bit, and have made it to the writing shed by 5:30. I feel like I’m racing with myself a little bit
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So, this is a little goofy. But there’s something about the casting / filming of The Expanse that made it surprisingly hard for me to tell a lot of the characters apart. So even though I read the first book quite a long time ago, and I’ve just finished watching season 1, I’m going to
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Birthday afternoon fun — bingeing The Expanse and Terraforming Mars with Jed. Technically, both count as ‘research’.
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Well, I didn’t get to actually revising until 9 a.m., somehow, but I’m going to chalk that up to being distracted by birthday greetings. Did manage to do another chapter of revision in about 90 minutes, up to a little over 10K. I didn’t add a lot of new material, but there’s a fair bit
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If you wear a long, linen dress, climb into the pool, immerse yourself, climb back out again, and then go sit in front of the fan in your shed, you can be quite comfortable for another 90 minutes of writing, even if it IS 90F. Life is better when you stop worrying about looking goofy.
Well, I didn’t get to actually revising until 9 a.m., somehow, but I’m going to chalk that up to being distracted by birthday greetings. Did manage to do another chapter of revision in about 90 minutes, up to a little over 10K. I didn’t add a lot of new material, but there’s a fair bit
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10:17 — It took me a little longer than I’d hoped to get back to writing; the garden is seductive, and there are always more little tasks to do. But I was back in the chair by 9:20, and went pretty quickly through revisions to chapters 2 and 3. Some restructuring as I went, but
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8:39. Spent about an hour on SLF & teaching stuff before I finally actually switched to writing, but then had a good hour of revision. Went back into the chapter I restructured yesterday and did a little more to smooth the language (new prose is often pretty clunky), refine some of the new elements. Think
Writing research question — is there a difference between a litter and a brood? (I have a felinoid alien race that typically gestates and gives birth to eight children at a time. Trying to decide which term to use for that grouping.)
