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Back from the dead
May. 20th, 2010 11:18 pmI'm back. Sort of. I'm liable to disappear again for blips of time, but I've actually had a chance to read and *gasp* comment on some LJ posts since yesterday. The week or so before that, though...well, please do fill me in if I missed anything terribly exciting, like you just sold a novel or cured cancer or something.
TNEO Progress-O-Meter
I got the bulk of the Big Mass O' Research I needed to do for my TNEO lecture done, so that's a relief. Now I just need to organize it all into a lecture, which is still work, but it's the easier part for me and less likely to make my eyes cross the way plowing through agent listings and websites and deal news did.
I'm not as far along on my TNEO critiquing as I was hoping to be by this point--one crit complete, *cough mumble cough cough* more to go. But I've at least done a first read through of all of the first round novel chapters, and I have nowhere to be this weekend, so I intend to be a critiquing mad woman. And, if the weather cooperates, bicycling will hopefully be on the menu as well.
The Writerly Update
Novel progress has been sloooooow. Surprisingly so. I was sure this chapter would go faster, but I forgot how much rewriting I needed to do in the opening scene. Giving a character a complete personality transplant will do that. But it all came together, just in time for me to kill the character off. Official Big Fat Epic Fantasy Body Count: 5ish. I say "ish" because a) I'm not counting some random guards and mercenary types who've bought it, and b) three of the five-ish were extremely minor characters, but I've decided that they count because walking into a room full of three bloodied dead folks was kind of a big deal for the not-dead folks.
And on that note, I seem to have caught another dang cold, so I need to get myself to bed.
TNEO Progress-O-Meter
I got the bulk of the Big Mass O' Research I needed to do for my TNEO lecture done, so that's a relief. Now I just need to organize it all into a lecture, which is still work, but it's the easier part for me and less likely to make my eyes cross the way plowing through agent listings and websites and deal news did.
I'm not as far along on my TNEO critiquing as I was hoping to be by this point--one crit complete, *cough mumble cough cough* more to go. But I've at least done a first read through of all of the first round novel chapters, and I have nowhere to be this weekend, so I intend to be a critiquing mad woman. And, if the weather cooperates, bicycling will hopefully be on the menu as well.
The Writerly Update
Novel progress has been sloooooow. Surprisingly so. I was sure this chapter would go faster, but I forgot how much rewriting I needed to do in the opening scene. Giving a character a complete personality transplant will do that. But it all came together, just in time for me to kill the character off. Official Big Fat Epic Fantasy Body Count: 5ish. I say "ish" because a) I'm not counting some random guards and mercenary types who've bought it, and b) three of the five-ish were extremely minor characters, but I've decided that they count because walking into a room full of three bloodied dead folks was kind of a big deal for the not-dead folks.
And on that note, I seem to have caught another dang cold, so I need to get myself to bed.
