truepenny: artist's rendering of Sidneyia inexpectans (writing: hippopotamus)
Sarah/Katherine ([personal profile] truepenny) wrote2011-03-31 10:21 pm

something like progress

Draft of a short story finished. (Well, except for all the [1], [2], [3] all the way up to [71] where proper nouns (and a couple common ones) go.) I can't tell you how long it is, because I wrote it entirely longhand (although it runs from the bottom of p. 31v to the top of p. 57 in the knock-off Moleskine notebook* I'm currently using. I can't tell you the title, either, because it doesn't have one. (I thought it did, but it turns out the title I thought it had was not correct at all.)

It has given me a lovely example of the moss-troll problem though: Caesarian section. Even though Julius Caesar was probably not born by Caesarian section, the adjective makes no sense in a world without the word "Caesar."

Notice that although this is not the work I should be doing, I am very grateful nonetheless to have a complete draft of anything.

And on that note, I'm going to give this "sleeping" thing a whirl. I've heard it's fun if you do it right.


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*I will not be buying the Picadilly Moleskine knock-offs again, even though they are about 1/3 as expensive. The bookmark ribbons come out, and the elastic does not elastic properly, and both these things get more annoying rather than less over time.

[identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com 2011-04-01 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
"But I guess ve hoped he'd be Norvegian."

Sorry, I should start my jokes at the beginning. It's the one where Ole hears that his and Lena's baby is going to have to be taken Caesarian.

Anyway, yay draft.