Editing
Editing is interesting. It's the conscious side of the compositional process, where I look at what my unconscious has dredged up from the sea-bottom and sort through it. Seaweed, dead fish, dead fish, horseshoe crab, four zillion periwinkle shells, more seaweed... gold coin. Or abandoning my goofy metaphor: crappy sentence, mixed metaphor, crappy sentence, wrong word... good lord an important thing about the character, crappy sentence...
I write my ending, then rewrite my beginning, then tweak my ending again. I read through and try to comb my language so it all comes from the same metaphor system. I know
theblackmare accuses me of sticking with purely functional words and never letting myself be decorative. Hee! But I have a thing I'm tryin' to do.
Just take it as read that I'll be editing up until the moment I post on Thursday. And probably afterward.
Next. To whom do I owe what? Remind me.secondalto, I have two stories to be read, sitting in my Folder of Shameful Lateness. Anybody else? I have a horrible feeling that I have forgotten something. Like for xphile. Since January. Um. Crap. Did I really do that?
Your random link for today: Hmm! I have a link to BDFL Guido's update on the state of Python 3.0. Approximately -3 of you want to read that. How about a link to a crappy over-compressed video of a Discovery Channel documentary on the history of Atari? No? How about tomorrow's APOD, then, showing an eclipse of Venus? I think you'll like that one.
I write my ending, then rewrite my beginning, then tweak my ending again. I read through and try to comb my language so it all comes from the same metaphor system. I know
theblackmare accuses me of sticking with purely functional words and never letting myself be decorative. Hee! But I have a thing I'm tryin' to do.Just take it as read that I'll be editing up until the moment I post on Thursday. And probably afterward.
Next. To whom do I owe what? Remind me.
secondalto, I have two stories to be read, sitting in my Folder of Shameful Lateness. Anybody else? I have a horrible feeling that I have forgotten something. Like for xphile. Since January. Um. Crap. Did I really do that?Your random link for today: Hmm! I have a link to BDFL Guido's update on the state of Python 3.0. Approximately -3 of you want to read that. How about a link to a crappy over-compressed video of a Discovery Channel documentary on the history of Atari? No? How about tomorrow's APOD, then, showing an eclipse of Venus? I think you'll like that one.
Now, having said that, I'm awaiting 'Thusia' with barely (read: not in the slightest) restrained eagerness, the next bit of 'Blackmail' with a gleam in my eye that (I've been told) is more than a little maniacal, and if we (read: I) don't get the next section of 'Reconnection' soon, something is going to go 'boom.'
Right. So, how's your day been? ;-)
I decided I really did need a Buffy segment before the nearly-finished Giles segment in "Blackmail", so I've been fidgeting with that; probably next week to post 2 pieces. I generally have a fidget story that I work on while I can't think about my main project. That's been the role in life of "Blackmail" for about six months now :)
"Reconnection". *whistles innocently*
Folder of Shameful Lateness? *giggles*
Worry not my dear, you're not the only one. I have another person betaing a Stargate story for me and she's had it for longer than you've had the two Buffyverse things.
Do be warned, I have two stories finished (for
That said, here he is with Grilled (Jalepeno) Cheese & Tomatoe for lunch. So ya, about that Thusia. And Blackmail. OMG!! NOWish kthxbye please. *big sigh*
My ficrec is http://www.athenewolfe.com/justrewards/viewstory.php?sid=879&chapter=1 [Out of Africa by spikeNdru], not an author I've read before, but its a good rollicking adventure. While we(I) wait. *really BIG sigh*
Brain consumed with editing atm. Actually, brain consumed with paying work at the moment. If you could arrange for me to win the lottery, I'd write more fic.