Saturday morning
Feb. 3rd, 2007 07:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ksmithWe are under wind chill advisory for the next few days. High of 6F today, 0F tomorrow. Nights in the minuses. Wind chills could hit 30 below. The good news is that we warm up to the 20s by week's end. The bad news is that we've reached the stage where the 20s sound warm.
Still revising, but you knew that. I am still at -100 on the page change, which means that so far this draft is clocking 100 pages shorter than the first submission draft, *and* I have been able to tuck the same Moments, Twists, Turns, Revelations, Etc, into that fewer number of pages. If I can maintain that to the end, it will be a good thing.
If I can reach Shèrá by the end of the weekend, I will be in good shape. That part of the book, so help me, doesn't need as much ground floor rewrite.
I would not advise nurturing a process that waits until 2 weeks before the book is due to dump important plot points into your brain. I'm stuck with mine. Woke up at 3am-ish, and lay there trying to figure out when Jani figures out something major *and* when she says the thing that gets her in very big trouble a few chapters later. And now I know the answer to both questions, which proves, at least to me, that there are times when insomnia can be your friend.
My shoulders are tight. Weird nerve twinges down the arms are a result. Not carpal tunnel--I already checked. Ice and stretching help.
If I pull this off without spontaneously combusting, I will have rewritten this book in a month and a half.
Still revising, but you knew that. I am still at -100 on the page change, which means that so far this draft is clocking 100 pages shorter than the first submission draft, *and* I have been able to tuck the same Moments, Twists, Turns, Revelations, Etc, into that fewer number of pages. If I can maintain that to the end, it will be a good thing.
If I can reach Shèrá by the end of the weekend, I will be in good shape. That part of the book, so help me, doesn't need as much ground floor rewrite.
I would not advise nurturing a process that waits until 2 weeks before the book is due to dump important plot points into your brain. I'm stuck with mine. Woke up at 3am-ish, and lay there trying to figure out when Jani figures out something major *and* when she says the thing that gets her in very big trouble a few chapters later. And now I know the answer to both questions, which proves, at least to me, that there are times when insomnia can be your friend.
My shoulders are tight. Weird nerve twinges down the arms are a result. Not carpal tunnel--I already checked. Ice and stretching help.
If I pull this off without spontaneously combusting, I will have rewritten this book in a month and a half.
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Date: 2007-02-03 03:21 pm (UTC)Best of luck for a productive day!
Mindy
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Date: 2007-02-04 11:54 pm (UTC)Must look into some kind of brace. And I'm getting a massage next week--that will help.
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Date: 2007-02-04 12:00 am (UTC)I have every faith that you can do this. You might try wearing the wrist braces when you sleep. And don't forget the anti-inflammatories. Take them steadily (aspirin, for example) for this heavy work period.
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Date: 2007-02-04 11:53 pm (UTC)