My, that was fun
Jun. 14th, 2007 03:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonI took a day off from the novel yesterday to write Zombies! and to play around with the new novel. The contemporary fantasy one, the one with the working title of Red Demon (which is a seriously misleading title), the one about Leah and David meeting in a grief group, and about David's killer in-law problem.
All of that was fun, fun, fun and apparently cranked up the creative juices because I got 1250 words written at lunch today. I did some scrunching and rearranging, but my net gain was still 1000 words. I finished chapter 22 on Tuesday, so this was pure chapter 23 work. Chapter 22 got ahead of itself and once I realized that was why it was being such a large pain in the arse, I was able to chop away the offending matter and finish it up. Fortunately, I'll be able to use most of the stuff I cut i later.
In other fun news: My bathroom remodel is coming along nicely. They got the floor in yesterday and I love it. Two inch white tiles with one inch black spacers so it looks like one of those classic black and white floor patterns from the 1920s. The shower is mostly done, too—large black and white tiles, mostly white with black highlights. I'm going to do the wood trim and cabinets in white, but I want some color on the walls. Something rich and earthy. Maybe a dark gold. There won't be all that much wall to paint gold as most of one wall is mirrored, but the gold will continue out into the hall linking my sitting room with my bedroom. The roommate was having a little trouble accepting the concept, but I think I've brought her around. She liked the tile once she saw it laid, so she's cutting me a little slack on the gold.
I could have lived with the ratty old falling apart bathroom for quite some time more (my old apartment gave me a high tolerance for sleaze), but the roommate's shower was literally starting to fall through the floor, so that had to be done. In for an inch, in for a mile, I guess. It's so nice to have a nice new environment. Or it will be, once I can shower in there again.
Min likes it, too. She thinks it's nice of me to pick out a tile design that matches her. She is, however, freaked by all the noise and chaos. "I want it to be done now," she says. Me, too, Baby Min. Me, too.
Random quote of the day:
"Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off....And when it is accomplished—behold!—all the truth of life is there: a moment of vision, a sigh, a smile—and the return to an eternal rest."
—Joseph Conrad
(Thank you, Tara, wherever you are.)
All of that was fun, fun, fun and apparently cranked up the creative juices because I got 1250 words written at lunch today. I did some scrunching and rearranging, but my net gain was still 1000 words. I finished chapter 22 on Tuesday, so this was pure chapter 23 work. Chapter 22 got ahead of itself and once I realized that was why it was being such a large pain in the arse, I was able to chop away the offending matter and finish it up. Fortunately, I'll be able to use most of the stuff I cut i later.
In other fun news: My bathroom remodel is coming along nicely. They got the floor in yesterday and I love it. Two inch white tiles with one inch black spacers so it looks like one of those classic black and white floor patterns from the 1920s. The shower is mostly done, too—large black and white tiles, mostly white with black highlights. I'm going to do the wood trim and cabinets in white, but I want some color on the walls. Something rich and earthy. Maybe a dark gold. There won't be all that much wall to paint gold as most of one wall is mirrored, but the gold will continue out into the hall linking my sitting room with my bedroom. The roommate was having a little trouble accepting the concept, but I think I've brought her around. She liked the tile once she saw it laid, so she's cutting me a little slack on the gold.
I could have lived with the ratty old falling apart bathroom for quite some time more (my old apartment gave me a high tolerance for sleaze), but the roommate's shower was literally starting to fall through the floor, so that had to be done. In for an inch, in for a mile, I guess. It's so nice to have a nice new environment. Or it will be, once I can shower in there again.
Min likes it, too. She thinks it's nice of me to pick out a tile design that matches her. She is, however, freaked by all the noise and chaos. "I want it to be done now," she says. Me, too, Baby Min. Me, too.
Random quote of the day:
"Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off....And when it is accomplished—behold!—all the truth of life is there: a moment of vision, a sigh, a smile—and the return to an eternal rest."
—Joseph Conrad
(Thank you, Tara, wherever you are.)
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