T-48 and counting

[truepenny]

No words today.

Or, rather, probably 200-300 words of a false start on Chapter 13. Happily, I realized it was a false start within 300 words (The false starts on The Mirador run into the hundreds of pages. Yes, really.), and thus spent the rest of the day trying to figure out how to get from point A (the end of Chapter 12) to point B (the climax of the novel, which I do actually know!) in the approximately 77k left to me, minus however much I need for denouement and wrapping up and things like that. (You know you've reached a watershed in your novel when your remaining wordcount looks uncomfortably tight instead of agoraphobically vast. I'm not quite there yet, but I can feel the pole-reversal coming.)

And I have figured out, if not how to get from A to B, then at least from A to A₁. Which is better than nothing.

I prefer tangible progress, but I'll take intangible progress if it's the best I can do.

Comments

[callunav.livejournal.com]

I prefer tangible progress, but I'll take intangible progress if it's the best I can do.

Man...write it in stone, put it over the door. There's a motto that will do for all manner of matters.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

This would be the point to regurgitate an annoying truism about journeys of a thousand miles beginning with a single step, but you would probably reach through the intertubes and shake me*, so instead, here's a critter:



This ought to have as a caption: "Coyote knows the only reason you put that rug on the floor is so you could pull it out from under Character X later on. He approves."


*And I'd deserve it, because man, that's obnoxious.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

That's a marvelous coyote.

[oracne.livejournal.com]

I like your hippo icon lots.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It is my the book mocks me in my pain! icon.

[oracne.livejournal.com]

The linkage between submerged hippo and being mocked in your pain seems quite clear to my deranged mind.

[ahem]

[kate_nepveu]

Yay, figuring out how to get from A to A₁. I'm currently panicking over an analogous though less serious problem, and so you have my sympathy.

* * *

This is a change of subject.

ISTR that you requested links to reviews, so here's mine: http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/2007/06/monette_01-02.php

This is a change of subject because while I really liked the books and wish _The Mirador_ was out now instead of after the Campbell voting deadline, the review is not 100% positive, and therefore giving the link is not meant as a supportive thing, just information.

If this is bad timing, I apologize.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

There's nothing to apologize for. That's a lovely, thoughtful review--thank you for the link!

[kate_nepveu]

You're welcome.

(It's just that writing fiction seems like magic to me--how people *come up with all that*! Because I don't know how it works, I don't know what might interfere, and I'd hate to interfere.)

[awelkin.livejournal.com]

Good luck! Trust that something will come up from the depths of your subconscious.

Catherine