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After a weekend in which ark-building was starting to look like a good idea, it's a dry and reasonably-comfortable Monday. My morning was sucked up doing my "other" job - covering for the guy who quit - but now things have calmed down.
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jeff_duntemann is singing the praises of Taos Toolbox, which bills itself as a master class in writing science fiction. I have to admit that it sounds interesting, although having not been to Clarion or any of the other workshops, I have to wonder if it would be useful for me. Frankly, sometimes I think there's nothing wrong with my writing that having more time to write wouldn't fix. Then I wake up, and realize that everybody can learn something.
Speaking of writing, despite (or maybe because of*) the hectic schedule at work, The Night Watch is cooking along nicely, with two more chapters written this week. I'm getting close to a finished first draft. It's a creaky first, short (I'll be lucky to hit 60K) and lacking in my usual ways of description and characterization, but it will be a Story Complete In Every Part. Fortunately, I have a subplot I need to go back and bake in, so by the time I add that and the other garnishes it should be around the 80K mark.
* I think it was Cheri Priest who said that "busy people get more shit done!"
Over on the F-list,
jeff_duntemann is singing the praises of Taos Toolbox, which bills itself as a master class in writing science fiction. I have to admit that it sounds interesting, although having not been to Clarion or any of the other workshops, I have to wonder if it would be useful for me. Frankly, sometimes I think there's nothing wrong with my writing that having more time to write wouldn't fix. Then I wake up, and realize that everybody can learn something. Speaking of writing, despite (or maybe because of*) the hectic schedule at work, The Night Watch is cooking along nicely, with two more chapters written this week. I'm getting close to a finished first draft. It's a creaky first, short (I'll be lucky to hit 60K) and lacking in my usual ways of description and characterization, but it will be a Story Complete In Every Part. Fortunately, I have a subplot I need to go back and bake in, so by the time I add that and the other garnishes it should be around the 80K mark.
* I think it was Cheri Priest who said that "busy people get more shit done!"
