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As disciplined as I generally am about writing, this is to be one of those weeks where I only managed 4 days of writing-related activities. The time change between Saturday and Sunday destroyed me, partially because a late-night romp through Milpitas turned into an early morning romp suddenly, and I found myself forced to wake up ass-kickingly early in order to have a productive day. Add to this that today was the day when I had to press buttons to see how many men the government was sending to take away my lunch money, and I am afraid that today was destined to be one lacking in forward literary progress.
The map for the next couple of weeks is interesting for me. I am far enough ahead on updates for Not Providence that I do not feel bad starting or restarting other major projects, but the idea of returning to Eyes of Stone is still daunting. I think this is me learning a valuable lesson in when to not let a project sit, though my interest in finishing it is still high enough that I shouldn't wind up paying too steep a price for this break.
So, currently, the plan is to continue apace with Not Providence, finish edits on and submit "A Million Stories", begin and complete the editing and rewriting process on "Recess", and meanwhile start to review Eyes of Stone and make sure I still have the thread of it. When "Recess" is done, I will focus in on Eyes of Stone, Not Providence, and the care and feeding of submissions until such time as all three of those stories are published or one or more of them clearly needs to be run back through the Belt Sander. Such is my life. Luckily I'll have a plane flight or six this week to prompt me to get things done.
This concludes your writing update. Up next in my little corner of the world: my thoughts on Nashville, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and acceptable breakdowns in reality in the fantasy novel. One thing I never run out of is opinions.
The map for the next couple of weeks is interesting for me. I am far enough ahead on updates for Not Providence that I do not feel bad starting or restarting other major projects, but the idea of returning to Eyes of Stone is still daunting. I think this is me learning a valuable lesson in when to not let a project sit, though my interest in finishing it is still high enough that I shouldn't wind up paying too steep a price for this break.
So, currently, the plan is to continue apace with Not Providence, finish edits on and submit "A Million Stories", begin and complete the editing and rewriting process on "Recess", and meanwhile start to review Eyes of Stone and make sure I still have the thread of it. When "Recess" is done, I will focus in on Eyes of Stone, Not Providence, and the care and feeding of submissions until such time as all three of those stories are published or one or more of them clearly needs to be run back through the Belt Sander. Such is my life. Luckily I'll have a plane flight or six this week to prompt me to get things done.
This concludes your writing update. Up next in my little corner of the world: my thoughts on Nashville, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and acceptable breakdowns in reality in the fantasy novel. One thing I never run out of is opinions.
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posted by Tyler at
10:07 PM
2 Comments:
PLEASE! NEVER run out of opinions! And keep putting them in print so I can continue enjoying them.
GREAT line here, by the way:
"when I had to press buttons to see how many men the government was sending to take away my lunch money." Yeah, no shit.
Oh, and by the way... Punctuation Rules I Learned In College: always put the pause or ending mark, such as comma, semi-colon, period, exclamation point, or question mark (and anything I forgot) INSIDE the quotation marks.
@Katy: Actually, this is where we part ways, grammatically speaking. MLA guidelines (or the last MLA guidelines I Read), which are what I was smashed in the face with during college, state that you leave any pause or ending mark you are inserting outside the quotation marks--those marks only go inside the quotation marks if they are either part of the original sentence, or (in case of adding a final period) if the entire sentence is a quote. So neither of us is wrong (though if I actually screwed up and am forgetting it at this late hour, my apologies!), just working off of different style guides. :)
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