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Progress report, Break
Dec. 18th, 2008 08:30 pmI've just invented a new word - guilting, a noun, synonym for guilt trip, which I cannot use in this context. I like it. So don't try telling me it's not the best new word you've ever heard, because I won't hear you. *g*
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Hmm. What have I researched recently? Polo, polo ponies, types of trees and other plants that grow in this sort of setting. Food crops, likewise. Lots and lots of image searches for terrain that matches what I want to see on the page.
Oh, and Christmas gifts. *g* I still have to write out the cards, too, lest they become New Year's cards.
I got about 800 words the night before last, and have managed 692 more and two short scenes tonight. My "spare" time's been consumed lately not just with preparations for the upcoming Christmas gift-giving but with a legislative proposal that's striking fairly close to Career Path #2's right to practice. It's resulting in lots of email exchanges arguing complex readings of lawyerly text and low-level panicked politicking over the direction our professional landscape design organization will choose to go--support of the legislation, as long as we get the amendments to its wording that will keep us in business, or opposition. I think I've managed to convince the rest of the board members that we need an actual vote on the subject.
All of this conducted around Career Path #1's dayjobbery and writing. And I still have to organize year-end charitable donations, which mostly means inventorying stuff we're giving to Goodwill. Yeah. Busy am I.
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I really wanted to be done with this rewrite by the new year. At the speed I'm going, I don't see that happening. The draft I'm rewriting has about 80 pages more to go, and there are some significant changes still to make under my current theory of the arc of this novel. On the plus side, however, I am working on page 337, and thus far the plot re-conception seems to be holding together.
Ah, well. Can't have everything, right?
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Hmm. What have I researched recently? Polo, polo ponies, types of trees and other plants that grow in this sort of setting. Food crops, likewise. Lots and lots of image searches for terrain that matches what I want to see on the page.
Oh, and Christmas gifts. *g* I still have to write out the cards, too, lest they become New Year's cards.
I got about 800 words the night before last, and have managed 692 more and two short scenes tonight. My "spare" time's been consumed lately not just with preparations for the upcoming Christmas gift-giving but with a legislative proposal that's striking fairly close to Career Path #2's right to practice. It's resulting in lots of email exchanges arguing complex readings of lawyerly text and low-level panicked politicking over the direction our professional landscape design organization will choose to go--support of the legislation, as long as we get the amendments to its wording that will keep us in business, or opposition. I think I've managed to convince the rest of the board members that we need an actual vote on the subject.
All of this conducted around Career Path #1's dayjobbery and writing. And I still have to organize year-end charitable donations, which mostly means inventorying stuff we're giving to Goodwill. Yeah. Busy am I.
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I really wanted to be done with this rewrite by the new year. At the speed I'm going, I don't see that happening. The draft I'm rewriting has about 80 pages more to go, and there are some significant changes still to make under my current theory of the arc of this novel. On the plus side, however, I am working on page 337, and thus far the plot re-conception seems to be holding together.
Ah, well. Can't have everything, right?
