closer and closer

[truepenny]

The Mirador, Chapter 16: 6,480 words

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We now reach the point in our programme where I have to rejigger the plot on account of having lost my head in the first draft and never gotten it back. (This is the most complicatedly plotty thing I have ever written. Note to self: Don't do that again.)

Fortunately for me, I have matociquala, who's not only willing to say, "Yanno, this doesn't make any sense," but also to listen while I wail and thrash, and to help me get it right. So I know, more or less, what needs to happen. Now I just have to write it.

Watch that first step. It's a doozy.

On the other hand, this is the climax, and it's this and the denoument, and then the draft is done. And I have my little list of things to correct (with more doubtless to come as mirrorthaw progresses through the draft), but I'm very close to the point where, if my editor called me tomorrow and said, "I need the ms. Right. Now." I could give it to her and not have a cataclysmic hissy fit about it, either. We're not there yet, but I can see it from where I stand.

(In other news: wax. Definitely wax. 100 year old wax, even. Tra la.)

Comments

[heresluck]

Draft-completion-in-sight, yay! Wax, boo hiss!

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Petrified wax?! Yech. That's right up there with the ten-layers-of-wallpaper-two-coats-of-paint-and-another seven-layers-of-wallpaper I once helped a friend strip. Thankfully, it was a breakfast room, and so just barely large enough to swing a cat, and luckily, a wallpaper steamer was invovled.

Petrified wax. Narsty!

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

It combines all the worst elements of snot, glue, and (when it does deign to lift off the wood) cat hairballs. We are not amused.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

[marith.livejournal.com]

Wait, somebody coated your walls in wax *on purpose* once upon a time? Whatever for? Or is it century-old candle driblets?

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Floors, not walls.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Well, now you know they were good housekeepers, by their own standards, way back then.

White vinegar might help a bit, too.

[(Anonymous)]

Pardon me while I reveal my ignorance: how does one remove wax from floors? I'm guessing neither vinegar or the ever-lovely baking soda-et-water combo cut it.

You are very brave to tackle both the stairs and the writing. I admire.

the grrly grrl

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Thus far, my answer is, not very well.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

The Wood Floor Doctor (http://www.woodfloordoctor.com/_how_tos/articles/cleanpt2.shtml) recommends mineral spirits for dealing with Really Old Wax Build-up.

Don't inhale.