Today and today and today
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clarentineI've just added a new book to my Keep shelf. This one's Amanda Downum's (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stillsostrange) debut novel, The Drowning City. Forensic sorcery for the win! I like the coherency of the worldbuilding, the consistency of detail; this is a world that is as real as the one outside my workroom window. I'm very much looking forward to its sequel!
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I decided, last weekend, that at the rate the Grimes Golden apple tree in my front yard was dropping apples (helped along mightily by birds and squirrels, damn it), if I waited until the remaining apples were the bright golden yellow they're supposed to turn I might have half a dozen, tops. So, as I was picking up the windfallen and chucking them into bags for transport to the compost pile/wasp bit-o-heaven, I set aside six or eight of the best looking ones, and Sunday afternoon I made apple crisp.
And was reminded, once more, that skin color is no predictor of ripeness. Want to know if an apple is ripe? Cut it open. If the seed coat is dark brown, it's ripe. The flesh might soften, and the skin might brighten, but it's ripe.
Guess what I've been eating for breakfasts all this week? *G*
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I am at the top of the third of the three major changes I'm making to Kith. This puts me about 100 pages out from the end of the book. It also means that progress has slowed to a crawl while I work out what I need to change, what effects those changes will have elsewhere (in this book as well as the next, since they appear to want to be a duology), and how the themes of the book are best served by the changes.
It also means that I am better than two thirds done with this rewrite. I don't know about you and your rewrites, but man, I'm glad to be this far along.
And doubly glad that, in about 100 pages, I can put this damned thing down.
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The current landscape design client has approved both the form of the redesigned courtyard garden and the plants to go within it. All that remains is transferring the details over to the vellum I drew the base plan on, finalizing the plant list, and making copies for presentation.
Woo!
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I found an interesting new caterpillar on the lespedeza plant this morning. Photos to follow as soon as I get around to downloading them.
stillsostrange) debut novel, The Drowning City. Forensic sorcery for the win! I like the coherency of the worldbuilding, the consistency of detail; this is a world that is as real as the one outside my workroom window. I'm very much looking forward to its sequel!***
I decided, last weekend, that at the rate the Grimes Golden apple tree in my front yard was dropping apples (helped along mightily by birds and squirrels, damn it), if I waited until the remaining apples were the bright golden yellow they're supposed to turn I might have half a dozen, tops. So, as I was picking up the windfallen and chucking them into bags for transport to the compost pile/wasp bit-o-heaven, I set aside six or eight of the best looking ones, and Sunday afternoon I made apple crisp.
And was reminded, once more, that skin color is no predictor of ripeness. Want to know if an apple is ripe? Cut it open. If the seed coat is dark brown, it's ripe. The flesh might soften, and the skin might brighten, but it's ripe.
Guess what I've been eating for breakfasts all this week? *G*
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I am at the top of the third of the three major changes I'm making to Kith. This puts me about 100 pages out from the end of the book. It also means that progress has slowed to a crawl while I work out what I need to change, what effects those changes will have elsewhere (in this book as well as the next, since they appear to want to be a duology), and how the themes of the book are best served by the changes.
It also means that I am better than two thirds done with this rewrite. I don't know about you and your rewrites, but man, I'm glad to be this far along.
And doubly glad that, in about 100 pages, I can put this damned thing down.
***
The current landscape design client has approved both the form of the redesigned courtyard garden and the plants to go within it. All that remains is transferring the details over to the vellum I drew the base plan on, finalizing the plant list, and making copies for presentation.
Woo!
***
I found an interesting new caterpillar on the lespedeza plant this morning. Photos to follow as soon as I get around to downloading them.
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Date: 2009-09-13 10:35 am (UTC)Sounds like you're making good headway with everything :)
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Date: 2009-09-13 03:19 pm (UTC)Good to see your pixels about again!