Month: June 2019

Katie is quite ill, but not dying. Those who know her should contact her directly for more details, I’m not putting it on my blog.

Make sure you drink enough fluids, people.

current chapter now 9250 words. I need to wrap this up and get to the next big weirdness.

My first tax refund is in my account already. Happy sigh. I’m hoping to take Jeff out to Timmy Ho’s if he can pry himself away from work – he’s very work oriented this morning.

announcing his complete indifference to my having stolen his car.

the wasband has returned!

Well I do have keys and he’s in transit from Australia right now. I am not inclined to forgive him FOR LEAVING FOR AUSTRALIA FOR TWO WEEKS WITHOUT TELLING ME I mean what the fuck dude, but I stole his car, so I have had my revenge.

Took Alex to daycare yesterday – his momma was embracing the porcelain rather too frequently to drive – and I tried to sneak out without saying goodbye and he was NOT
HAVING
IT
So I ran back and gave him a mini kiss with my fingers and the excuse “I wanted to see if you’d notice”

LOL

Saw video of a red winged blackbird pecking at a great blue heron’s ass and it was good.

Plotters = 3 x 5s save lives! Every scene, every major interaction, is depicted before the first word is written and it will all connect to an elaborate colour schema and vexillology plus excuse me but you can’t pants a thriller or a detective novel so fuck off haters. Pro: isn’t it obvious? Con: Prone to internet ratholes about Roman weaponry.
Pantsers= There are only so many stories and my characters will tell me which one we’re in, if we’re only sticking to one that is, and that seems unlikely. Pro: those fuckers write some extremely wild, poetic shit, once you free them from plot or character detail consistency. Con: A lot of the rest of it is unreadable, because you catch continuity errors more than you catch the wild weird shit.
Plantsers=I will do extremely detailed backgrounds on all characters so I don’t do any newbie shit like green eyes grey eyes, I have my plot points and my last line, time to let the characters do the work:
Pro: Works pretty much all the time if consistently applied
Con: Your characters will back you into corners and mug you.

I wrote about 370 words yesterday but it wasn’t on the main project, or even a side project, I just had to write Slider and Jesse putting their friendship back together on different terms, none of it will end up in the final novel.
Brekky with Katie this morning. Keith may come if he’s conscious but I doubt it.
MUST DRESS SHE’S ALMOST HERE.

Lovely brekky with the kids. Alex is with his pop.

With fanfic (and your own fiction, but for that one must make worlds) you get the fun without the plot.
The plot – the metaplot that holds it all together – is the dyad. If all you care about is the dyad, you can strip away all the standard elements of plot and just have people living.
Doing what people do when there’s no plot happening.

“David, Wizardry won’t boot!”

I haven’t even got to the good part yet.

Made pear pancakes this morning at Jeff’s request.

mOm called looking for Jeff and I distracted her with “I sent you more” for a while.

Lunch bunch today. I think I’ll just take cheese. Cheese is often welcome.

only a couple of hundred words yesterday, not enough to send along, but very satisfying.

Katie and Alex called wanting to go swimming last night. I said I was having an indoor day. I went upstairs to lie down and had an extremely visually interesting (briefly, I had scintillating scotoma for about half an hour) migraine precursor and then PAIN PAIN PAIN. Now, because I have really weird migraines I lay there with my eyes squeezed shut and the top right chunk of my skull coming off and said to it YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE and I thought about fun things and cookie dough and after about half an hour the pain lifted. First time I’ve had a pain migraine in ages but I managed to chase it off.

Yesterday I fired up the eye mask I made a year or so ago and it really helped, the heat treatment made my right eye less dry.

Still LOVING MY BLANKIE. I wish the cover wasn’t pink but hey I DIDN’T PAY FOR IT.

All my taxes are in.

I’m obsessing about my new arrangement of the Gelis song. It just stays in my mind all the time, it’s there when I wake up. Being a songwriter is occasionally not all that great. But don’t pay attention to that, you know I mostly love it. “I want no sympathy for a pain I would trade for nothing”.

Back to RED HOT SCIENCE FICTION ACTION which in this case, since Nereus is doing a controlled fall from orbit while dodging Russian fighters, is actually a sound call.

Many thanks to Jeff for getting my taxes dealt with. Other good things have come out of it, but the biggest one is that I’m getting enough back to cover me and my expenses for at least half a year, maybe longer if I do something radical like budget.

For his service he shall receive a really nice dinner at Atlas, or someplace else that has really good fish.

The chapter called Detour is now up to 5500 6000 words and no sign of stopping. There’s going to be a huge action sequence in about two hundred words, after I’ve done establishing this new character.

Hosting service is being oddly unresponsive and unpleasantly disingenuous. So may change providers. In meantime, please accept my apoplectic apologies for how slow and absent my site is.

breakfast with Jeff and Katie this morning

Jeff’s off to a client, I’m going to go back to writing adjacent activities