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pjthompsonI'm trying to live in the present tense, but mostly the present tense is just making me furious. Now, anger can be a good motivator when it's me and my stuff and I need to get moving. But when it's the national or world stuff and there's not a damned thing I can do about it but stew at all the lies and...it's just destructive. So I let it off the leash a couple of times a day in the privacy of my own mind, or with like-minded cronies, then try to concentrate on something else. Results are variable.
Writing business of the day: I posted chapter one of Charged With Folly to the workshop. The urge to abandon Night Warrior is great, but I'm about three-quarters of the way through chapter 27 and the threads of all three timelines are starting to come together. I'm still plugging away because...I do have to finish it. I reckon I've got two or three sections in the 6th century left, maybe the same for 1968 and 1977. And maybe less. It all depends on how much I can accomplish during each transition. I'm currently in '68 and things are coming together somewhat faster than I anticipated when I made the last transition. So, I may finish this thing.
You know, I love those characters and I really want to do right by them—that's not the reason I feel like abandoning the story. I've just come to the conclusion that the world they inhabit isn't selling and I need to move on to a new world.
Of course, if Shivery Bones sells within the next year, I'll be right back in that universe and writing my little fingers off.
Quote of the day:
"Our soul...does not simply sit in a body like water in a jar. Rather, it merges with the body, so that each permeates the other as the golden color of a sunflower permeates its petals."
—Jalaja Bonheim, Aphrodite's Daughters
Writing business of the day: I posted chapter one of Charged With Folly to the workshop. The urge to abandon Night Warrior is great, but I'm about three-quarters of the way through chapter 27 and the threads of all three timelines are starting to come together. I'm still plugging away because...I do have to finish it. I reckon I've got two or three sections in the 6th century left, maybe the same for 1968 and 1977. And maybe less. It all depends on how much I can accomplish during each transition. I'm currently in '68 and things are coming together somewhat faster than I anticipated when I made the last transition. So, I may finish this thing.
You know, I love those characters and I really want to do right by them—that's not the reason I feel like abandoning the story. I've just come to the conclusion that the world they inhabit isn't selling and I need to move on to a new world.
Of course, if Shivery Bones sells within the next year, I'll be right back in that universe and writing my little fingers off.
Quote of the day:
"Our soul...does not simply sit in a body like water in a jar. Rather, it merges with the body, so that each permeates the other as the golden color of a sunflower permeates its petals."
—Jalaja Bonheim, Aphrodite's Daughters
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Date: 2005-09-01 01:42 pm (UTC)You better finish that book, or else when I'm in L.A. I'm coming over and shaking my fist at you.
There may even be muttering involved.
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Date: 2005-09-01 01:56 pm (UTC)