That’s been the case for some time now, but it struck me today. Nearly all my close friends are women. Obviously if I’m commenting on it, this is not how it has always been. I grew up running wild with two brothers. My favorite playmate-cousin was a boy. Yes, I had a female best friend […]
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This post isn’t really for you. It’s for me. Friends to whom I whine about my lack of progress: you know what to do. Two years ago today, in my quest to avoid whatever I was working on, I added up what I’ve written over the years. Talking about Ray Bradbury’s million words, it went
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I think I made some fifteen pages of forward progress today. At last. That’s actually an awful lot, with the level of rewriting needed. I figure I cut about twenty-five pages, repurposed five, and entirely rewrote ten. For one day, that’s a lot. Now, however, I must fall over. Oh! Learned today–how to print screen
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Starting on day one, of course: 99 80 60 10 0 240 180 30 40 10 40 60 849 divided by 60 = 14.15 hours so far. I think I need to buckle down a bit. Which is going to be hard, as I sort of accidentally volunteered to join a production of Alice in
Because at the actual end of the year I never feel like doing this… I started 2009 editing Ben. I did okay–it took forever, but I got it in a shape where I could have whipped it into a real book. Then (in March) I got a partial request for Taro and had to write
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0630, stumbling out of bed. Why didn’t I go to bed earlier? 0702. My new scrub brush is a disappointment. What do you mean, you didn’t want to know? Oh, all right, I’ll save that kind of news for Twitter. 1629. Sooooo glad to be home. One half the office staff out today. I’m the
I haven’t looked into the cultures yet, not extensively. But I did research some more this morning, and now (1728–that’s 5:28 p.m. to those not using military time) I’m working on my characters. Got the mind-map and questionnaire done for Devendra. Working on Shukri now. My fingers will type his name correctly, but keep trying