| A quick update and moving swiftly on... |
[Jun. 30th, 2009|09:11 am] |
Just to say, I'm still here and still working and such. After losing last Wednesday to not-quite-a-migraine, I found myself with unexpected new ideas/understanding about what a couple of characters need to be doing in this here book (Lescari 3) and consequently, what other/different things other people will be doing as a consequence. And who dies.
This is good in that concern that those initial characters were being sorely underused has been nagging at me in the few quiet moments I get around here. But, oh glory, the rewriting in prospect... And that way lies madness, at least until I get this first draft all done. So I am cracking on with that.
This is going well, now that I have presented husband with the scenario for the battle in hand which has been incredibly sticky to write. He contemplated my scenario as was, pointed out various incontravertable reasons why 'No, that won't work because...' and explained how to achieve what I wanted. Have I mentioned how wonderful it is to marry a wargamer, if you are a fantasy writer?
Or at least it will be going well, if for eg, the local electricity substation doesn'tblow its fuses again, as happened yesterday. Though no power did make for a very quiet and usefully productive reading day, given I am also working on a rescheduled review column for Albedo One.
And the power did come back on in time for the tennis in the later afternoon. Phew.
In other news, I had a thoroughly enjoyable day at the BSFA/SFF AGM event on Saturday, where pleasures included, but were not limited to, meeting Kit Whitfield, whose debut novel Bareback (Benighted in the US) was a splendid read, and lots of folk are telling me her new one is as much, if not more so. One for the holiday reading pile hopefully.
Always assuming we get a holiday booked what with husband's deadly work deadline shifting like an irritatingly shifty thing.
Meantime, I am planning on heading into London again this coming Friday, for the BFS open night launching the Torchwood books by Sarah Pinborough, Mark Morris and Guy Adams.
So I had better get some more work done! |
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