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greygirlbeast) wrote2011-03-12 12:48 pm
greygirlbeast) wrote2011-03-12 12:48 pm
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"They rise to you, you blow them down. Let me see you stand your ground."
These days, thanks to better sleep and meds, dreamsickness is rare. But I'm wrestling with a nasty bout this ayem. I woke three times from the same fucking nightmare, only to fall right back into it when I went to sleep again, continuity intact.
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Another day of proofreading yesterday, but it seemed much, much shorter than did Thursday. Spooky read the fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters aloud (109 pages, 24,727 words) over the course of about three and a half hours. Yeah, not nearly as bad as Thursday. Though, 7 is sort of a long demonic yowl that pretty much has to be read in a single breath. Still, not as bad the day before, and today should be about the same as yesterday. And today, we'll finish this first pass. Only minor line edits and the very few continuity errors have been corrected, along with two or three sentences I yanked out altogether
The Red Tree is likely a more straightforwardly autobiographical novel, but The Drowning Girl: A Memoir is somehow much more personal. Yesterday, I kept thinking, I wrote this thing. I shouldn't have to hear it read.
And I keep finding things I want to go back and work into the book, like Billie Holiday (and Diamanda Galas) singing "Gloomy Sunday," and wordplay with Styx and sticks.
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sovay will spend the weekend making corrections to The Drowning Girl, while I work on the corrections on Two Worlds and In Between (because, yes, I am editing two huge books at once).
I believe that, yesterday (or the night before), I found the name of my first YA novel, Blue Canary. Regardless, that's what the project will be called, and not one word of the plot will be leaked until the ms. has been sold. Yes, lately, Howard Hughes is extra paranoid.
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Last night, we were both so exhausted. Spooky warmed up leftovers. I had a hot bath that, of course, made me more tired. I played an hour or two of Rift while she watched trashy television. Literally! She's become addicted to something called American Pickers. But anyway, I leveled an alt, Nilleshna, my Kelari cleric (inquisitor/cabalist/purifier) to Level 7, and read a lot more of the game's lore. The deeper I get into Rift, the goofier WoW seems. And it's weird, because I went into WoW knowing it was goofy. I remember my first time in the b'elf starting area, and excitedly describing it to Spooky as "Disneyland on acid," and also comparing it to Final Fantasy X-2. But at some point I forgot it was all so dumb and goofy, and when I eventually remembered, it really pissed me off. The whole affair is inexplicable.
I continue to see most, by far, Rift players on our RP-PVE server using world-appropriate names, though last night I spotted Slyce, Inkognito, and Jhaded. I figure some of these players learned everything they know about naming fictional characters from reading superhero comics...which would be fine, if this were CoX. As for Jhaded (Jaded was taken, of course), that's just some jackass who's too cool for school. I see a lot of that in MMORPGs. gamers who feel they're simply too worldly to "pretend." And all I can do is wonder, then, why chose an rp server, when they had plenty of non-rp servers from which to choose? I am forced to draw the conclusions that they mean to be disruptive, and I loathe them on principle.
Later, we read Catching Fire, which we've almost finished.
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And this is today. Fuck you, day.
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Another day of proofreading yesterday, but it seemed much, much shorter than did Thursday. Spooky read the fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters aloud (109 pages, 24,727 words) over the course of about three and a half hours. Yeah, not nearly as bad as Thursday. Though, 7 is sort of a long demonic yowl that pretty much has to be read in a single breath. Still, not as bad the day before, and today should be about the same as yesterday. And today, we'll finish this first pass. Only minor line edits and the very few continuity errors have been corrected, along with two or three sentences I yanked out altogether
The Red Tree is likely a more straightforwardly autobiographical novel, but The Drowning Girl: A Memoir is somehow much more personal. Yesterday, I kept thinking, I wrote this thing. I shouldn't have to hear it read.
And I keep finding things I want to go back and work into the book, like Billie Holiday (and Diamanda Galas) singing "Gloomy Sunday," and wordplay with Styx and sticks.
Spooky and
sovay will spend the weekend making corrections to The Drowning Girl, while I work on the corrections on Two Worlds and In Between (because, yes, I am editing two huge books at once).I believe that, yesterday (or the night before), I found the name of my first YA novel, Blue Canary. Regardless, that's what the project will be called, and not one word of the plot will be leaked until the ms. has been sold. Yes, lately, Howard Hughes is extra paranoid.
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Last night, we were both so exhausted. Spooky warmed up leftovers. I had a hot bath that, of course, made me more tired. I played an hour or two of Rift while she watched trashy television. Literally! She's become addicted to something called American Pickers. But anyway, I leveled an alt, Nilleshna, my Kelari cleric (inquisitor/cabalist/purifier) to Level 7, and read a lot more of the game's lore. The deeper I get into Rift, the goofier WoW seems. And it's weird, because I went into WoW knowing it was goofy. I remember my first time in the b'elf starting area, and excitedly describing it to Spooky as "Disneyland on acid," and also comparing it to Final Fantasy X-2. But at some point I forgot it was all so dumb and goofy, and when I eventually remembered, it really pissed me off. The whole affair is inexplicable.
I continue to see most, by far, Rift players on our RP-PVE server using world-appropriate names, though last night I spotted Slyce, Inkognito, and Jhaded. I figure some of these players learned everything they know about naming fictional characters from reading superhero comics...which would be fine, if this were CoX. As for Jhaded (Jaded was taken, of course), that's just some jackass who's too cool for school. I see a lot of that in MMORPGs. gamers who feel they're simply too worldly to "pretend." And all I can do is wonder, then, why chose an rp server, when they had plenty of non-rp servers from which to choose? I am forced to draw the conclusions that they mean to be disruptive, and I loathe them on principle.
Later, we read Catching Fire, which we've almost finished.
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And this is today. Fuck you, day.
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You won't leak one word of the plot? Really?
An idea's worth a million words, and there are more thieves out there than you might think.
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(Now, if she'd leaked a word like "squamous" or "lasers," THAT might be a spoiler.)
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It's a good name.
(See you in less than eight hours.)
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It's a good name.
I thought so.
(See you in less than eight hours.)
Yes!
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I want this to go well for you, and will be there to buy it.
Thank you.
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And it's better that Spooky's addicted to this than Larry The Cable Guy's show ::shudder::
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Some of the people they buy from are of course characters-it's a reality show, after all-but you get this feeling that they're probably like that all the time.
Yeah, they're genuine dorks.
Anyway, this is pretty much how I feel about Deadliest Catch; it actually is reality television.
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Any TMBG inspiration?
Yep.
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It's just outright laziness.
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Oh, fuck yeah. I hate the names like Warl0ck or equally stupid shit. It's like... "Really? You couldn't just come up with a completely different name once you saw that the name you wanted was taken??"
Yes. though, not like "Warlock" is a name.
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Two books and the yearly time renunciation all at once. I can come out Tuesday if celebrations or reinforcements are warranted...maybe even Monday depending on deadlines on my end. Oh, and if I happen to see today, I will tell it to fuck off in your honor.
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Blue Canary's ideal. American Pickers is yahoos, stuff, and a camera. I guess you could call that "real" reality television, or you could just exempt it from the category. Nova was better than the entire concept of "reality television" and it always will be. Reality television's just another example of the many things that remind me that most of the planet has attention deficits.
Agreed on all accounts.
I can come out Tuesday if celebrations or reinforcements are warranted...
Not Tuesday, alas. We have to read The Dry Salvages. But soon.
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Actually, I'm taking Tuesday off, and have to read The Dry Salvages on Wednesday. I'm stealing Tuesday for secrets.
Publication?
Re: Publication?
Would you happen to know when The Drowning Girl might be published? Or is it too soon to know?
I was told Spring 2012. But I'm turning it in a little late. I'll ask my editor.
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Its funny that you just made a Cabal/Inquisitor, I'd done the exact same thing not two days ago. Its good stuff if you have a buddy to stop things from eating your face.
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Morning! Just wanted to say that your package was delivered sucessfully. The book is a wonder, thank you for the recomendation.
Thank you for buying it!
Its good stuff if you have a buddy to stop things from eating your face.
Words to live by.
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Either that, or they are a fan of a particular line of terrible supernatural romance novels typified by atrocious, intentional misspellings of dangerous-sounding words (e.g. Rhage, Vishous, Fhury).
I wish I didn't know this, but The Lady has an addiction to low-grade trashy vampire porn.
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Either that, or they are a fan of a particular line of terrible supernatural romance novels typified by atrocious, intentional misspellings of dangerous-sounding words (e.g. Rhage, Vishous, Fhury).
Ouch.
I wish I didn't know this, but The Lady has an addiction to low-grade trashy vampire porn.
Ouch, again.
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Well it's not like she makes me read them. Plus, she was laughing at it at the same time.
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Plus, she was laughing at it at the same time.
Well, that's a horse of a different color.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QAqJAfBjN8
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re: WoW
I think that pretty much says it all.