bookkeeping

[truepenny]

I'm changing my cipher. Instead of referring to The Project vols. 1 through 4, I'm going to use arcane pairs of letters, because that's how I refer to the books in my own notes. So, for future reference:

The Project vol. 1 = SL
The Project vol. 2 = DL
The Project vol. 3 = LW
The Project vol. 4 = LS

And the standalone novel that's out making the rounds is TWoM.

whilst in Minneapolis
LS: 2591 words
Verdict: Not bad, considering everything else that was going on.

Now, of course, I'm stuck again. But I think I'm starting to get some idea of what needs to happen in DL 3. TSS has gotten hung up on me not knowing enough about Victorian train service between London and Oxford (plus the fact that London isn't exactly London and Oxford isn't exactly Oxford and Victoria isn't exactly Victoria and ... oh, you get the idea). Also, I think my version of Papersky's mode has wobbled off the beam somehow; the book doesn't feel quite right, and therefore most likely needs more thinking. And since the caffeine has mostly worn off at this point and I'm feeling sort of not-quite-all-there, I think I'm going to go take a bath and leave all this complicated insanity for tomorrow.

Comments

[oracne.livejournal.com]

That damned thinking. Why can't we just write and not think?

[grump, grump]

[papersky.livejournal.com]

You wrote 2591 words in the con?

I am sick with envy. I wrote one paragraph, and I didn't even write it down. (I should write it down now, before I forget it.)

Victorian train service between London and Oxford -- there'd be lots of it. The thing American writers always get wrong about British trains is checking the times as if it's catching a plane to Karachi -- yes, people writing detective stories went over the timetables like that, but normal people treated (and often still do) trains like the metro, there'll be one, if I miss it, there'll be another one, dang, I have to wait a whole half hour and eat a bad sandwich. (Trollope has an awesome paragraph on how What Is Wrong With England is the railway sandwich.) I think you can assume there would be trains at least every hour and they'd take -- hmm, two hours now, so four hours with steam? And they'd have leather seats and little photographs of places and corridors and compartments. When I was a kid there was one still running on the Cardiff/Crewe line, with a diesel engine but the old carriages. I used to think that if I caught that particular train back to school, then when I changed at Shrewsbury, the thing that happens in Prince Caspian would happen.

Never quite worked.

If you see a kid in ugly school uniform on a station platform, with luggage, with eyes screwed as tightly shut as they'll go, and fingers on both hands crossed, muttering under her breath to Aslan, this may be an indication of something wrong with your school system.

[vass]

(Trollope has an awesome paragraph on how What Is Wrong With England is the railway sandwich.)

I think I might even remember that - is it from The Warden? (I've only read the first four Barsetshire books.)

[papersky.livejournal.com]

No, it's in He Knew He Was Right, where what he's actually saying is that the characters got something nice to eat in a station in Italy...

[elisem.livejournal.com]

TSS has gotten hung up on me not knowing enough about Victorian train service between London and Oxford (plus the fact that London isn't exactly London and Oxford isn't exactly Oxford and Victoria isn't exactly Victoria and ... oh, you get the idea).

Now that is a Mike thing to ask about if ever I saw one! Seriously, do. It's the sort of thing he loves, as he then gets to recommend books and other resources on the matter.


2591 words? Oh, so that's what you were doing each morning when I came into the living room? (And presumably at other times as well, yes?) Cool!


By the way, I have seen the preliminary versions of the photos of you and your necklaces. Two are stunningly beautiful portraits, in my opinion, as well as being nice necklace pictures.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I should ask Mike about that. Only I don't have his email address. Could you send it to me? Or give mine to him or whatever works? That would be most excellent.

Ooh, good photographs! I thought the ones ddb showed me on the digital camera looked great. (And I'm glad I'm looking good, too. 'Cause that's always nice.) I hope he can get the proofs up on the web soon, so I can see them.

And I was writing around the edges of everything. In the morning, in the green room when there wasn't anything else that needed doing, at your table when no one was investigating the pretties. It's the thing I like best about the notebook-and-pen system. I can write ANYWHERE.