This song was playing as I drove home today. Though not American, I’ve been impacted by the global financial situation. I’ve paid attention to their elections, and our elections, and with alI of the fuss and hullaballoo, I feel it’s a good reminder. There is no hope for the Messianic expectations of the Obama...
I’m finally over a brutal cold, and the cold dread that assailed me at the thought of taking on my novel again. I’ve had to slightly alter my cunning plan to focusing on revisions now, and leave excessive editing for later. That’s not to say that editing isn’t happening. A lot of things (adjectives,...
Despite a rotten cold and numerous distractions, I’ve got my chapter-by-chapter map done! A few of the chapters are yet to be written, so that will be a fun change from the editing/re-writing that will be the bulk of November. It is looking more and more do-able as I get more and more organised....
Many things requiring my attention, days running out! I seem to have the mapping mostly done, now attempting chapter breaks. Chapter breaks will hopefully help me see it as a step-by-step process; revise a chapter, move on. It sounds so simple, and yet…. Working on the denoument is tricky. You need to tie up...
Oh, do I have my work cut out for me! Ok. I knew that I lost my revisions to last year’s Nanowrimo Novel, Gift of the Ancients. I still have much of the world-building work, the recipe cards charting my Scenes and Sequals divided by chapter (good thing I had them and not just...
It’s been a beautiful October. Golden swathes of hitherto unsuspected deciduous trees cut through velvet ranks of pine on the mountain opposite my home. It was a lovely walk.