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I got myself up at 5:45 a.m. for this morning's Talking Library shift... only to find out that the sound engineer was dealing with car trouble, and there was no backup, so the reading had to be cancelled. So that was an hour's round-trip for nothing -- but the morning was already pretty, and I beat the school traffic home, even with a stop for gas, so I'm not too cranky about it.
It also means I got home early enough to listen in on the visits from the cabinet guy and the general contractor, and dived into my second breakfast (leftover fajita fresca), and got going on the current I-Will-Not-Panic-But-How-Did-This-List-Get-So-Long? list, which included refining and posting yesterday's sermon on country dancing.
On Saturday, I also hammered out a thousand more words on part 3 of Not As Dumb, which brings it up to about 2500 words, plus a couple pages of handwritten notes... and I'm tabling more work on it until after Easter, even though I'm itching to spend more time with it: the images of the whole chapter are so, so vivid and vibrant in my head, but there are at least two major chunks of plot that haven't quite settled into place yet, and a good part of that is me needing to do more reading and thinking about the characters' world. Which I can barely wait to do, but there are other promises that are more pressing, and they'll definitely take up most of March and probably beyond.
(I admit that my eagerness to get this story done is also because I've come across way too many FAKE novellas that got abandoned mid-saga, and the thought of being lumped in among those makes me inordinately twitchy. But I am a slow writer, and it took me over a year to finish "Just Like Strangers Here" -- which, come to think of it, was a much shorter story with a less complicated plot. Oh, ack. I need just to chill out and do justice to the fool thing once I can get back to it. And Mochimune/Miyasaka is getting deferred to 2010 or 2011, and if no one's still interested by then I'll cannibalize those notes for original fic.)
On a much more mellow note, the page proofs for my chapter ("The Potterverse and the Pulpits: Beyond Apologia and Bannings") in Reading Harry Potter Again arrived in Saturday's mail. Soon to show up at a library near you! (Or, if not, there's interlibrary loan...) Whee!
It also means I got home early enough to listen in on the visits from the cabinet guy and the general contractor, and dived into my second breakfast (leftover fajita fresca), and got going on the current I-Will-Not-Panic-But-How-Did-This-List-Get-So-Long? list, which included refining and posting yesterday's sermon on country dancing.
On Saturday, I also hammered out a thousand more words on part 3 of Not As Dumb, which brings it up to about 2500 words, plus a couple pages of handwritten notes... and I'm tabling more work on it until after Easter, even though I'm itching to spend more time with it: the images of the whole chapter are so, so vivid and vibrant in my head, but there are at least two major chunks of plot that haven't quite settled into place yet, and a good part of that is me needing to do more reading and thinking about the characters' world. Which I can barely wait to do, but there are other promises that are more pressing, and they'll definitely take up most of March and probably beyond.
(I admit that my eagerness to get this story done is also because I've come across way too many FAKE novellas that got abandoned mid-saga, and the thought of being lumped in among those makes me inordinately twitchy. But I am a slow writer, and it took me over a year to finish "Just Like Strangers Here" -- which, come to think of it, was a much shorter story with a less complicated plot. Oh, ack. I need just to chill out and do justice to the fool thing once I can get back to it. And Mochimune/Miyasaka is getting deferred to 2010 or 2011, and if no one's still interested by then I'll cannibalize those notes for original fic.)
On a much more mellow note, the page proofs for my chapter ("The Potterverse and the Pulpits: Beyond Apologia and Bannings") in Reading Harry Potter Again arrived in Saturday's mail. Soon to show up at a library near you! (Or, if not, there's interlibrary loan...) Whee!
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