February 2009

Still Here

Just sick, and tired. And I don’t mean fed up. Edit/re-write of Ben continues. Still looking for the place where it starts moving faster, but I’m happy with what I’ve done so far. I think this re-write is gonna kick it up a notch or six. This pleases me.

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This is Huge

From CNN: What could be bigger than the appointment of the first female minister in Saudi Arabia? Possibly the appointment of a new minister of justice who may actually help her get equal rights with her male counterpart. Right now, Norah al-Faiz, the new deputy minister for women’s education, is bound by the same laws

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I Was Going to Whine

About what? Oh, I’m sure I could have come up with something. How little time I have to write, maybe, or the fact that every time I start to edit, my brain tries to run off. But the time for whining, if ever there were such a time, is over. This edit is going down.

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minemineminemine

*CLINGS to blog* you’re back, I missed you, you’re back, oh thank goodness, I’m so glad you’re all right, I was going crazy without you, you’re BACK!!! *ahem* For some reason, the blog was borked. We apologize for any inconvenience. *snuggles shiny happy blog*

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Apparently I’m an Idiot

But I think it’s a choice I’ve made, and I’m content with it. I’d rather be an idiot and let someone help me, then be so smart that I had to do absolutely everything alone and the hardest way possible. Maybe I’m just lazy. Anywhooo. About a page and a half of editing done. As

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dadblast it!

Spent all day thinking how much better I could make that ship-fight scene, some fifteen years and a whole lot of writing experience after the first time I wrote it. How much more emotion I could wring from Ben’s horror at Eve’s ruthlessness in a dark corridor… Guess it’s back to re-writing for a bit.

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Update

New chapter of Shades up. Nothing else done so far today. Kid being annoying. I think that’s all the news. Not that most of it is actually news, as it happens far too often.

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