We made it to Chicago, without incident…internet is VERY poky here, so this isn’t much of an update! And it’s bedtime anyway. Goodnight all!

I drove to Seattle today; it was a reasonably good drive, except for the scary harassment. A delivery van got on the highway a little past Centralia, and got in the fast lane ahead of me, and obviously wasn’t using cruise control (and I was), and so I caught up to him. After a bit,

More excellent work on Hobgoblin today…I got back up to where I’d left off and circled back, before; but the question that had stopped me moving ahead the last time was still unanswered, in its particular details; and after a brief but profound conversation with Miss Q, I knew JUST what should happen here…but (you

I had one of those breakthroughs today…I was working away, rewriting a little scene in my edits in chapter 12 in Hobgoblin, when one of the characters suddenly said to another character, “You’re lying.” Oh my, I thought. What’s she going to say to that? And I waited for the response, and Character B (who

I defeated chapter 7 today! (and chapters 8, 9, and 10) (but it was chapter 7 that took all the time). It took hours, and I had to think carefully about every single line, what it meant with what had come before it, and with what was coming next…but I made it through. And cut

Yeah, very clever of me, “I only have to make little changes to chapters 1, 5, and 7.” Hahhaha. Anyway, you know what happened: after dithering around and making fourteen false starts, and going off and reading the entire internet a few times, I started at the beginning again and am rereading/reworking Hobgoblin, making the

I made more progress-that-doesn’t-look-like-progress on Hobgoblin today…finished cleaning up the outline, matching it with the book-as-written (through the first half) and notes-of-things-to-come (for the second half). But then I realized that the changes I have to make going back are even larger than I thought yesterday…so now I’ve already scribbled all over this clean new

I worked nicely along on my Hobgoblin edits today, getting to the point where I realized something bigger and more important needed to happen at the end of the chapter I was working on, and coincidentally it was time for my swim, so I said, Brain, go ahead and think this over whilst we are

Next week we leave for WorldCon. It just sort of crept up on me! I don’t have any programming (yay), but Mark does. So I’ve printed out his schedule and am planning social stuff around that. (So organized!) It should be fun. I haven’t been to a WorldCon in a few years–Australia was the last

I got a lot done today, including another chapter edited in Hobgoblin. Which is all very nice, except then I looked ahead to the next chapter, which is from a POV I’ve eliminated; and the chapter after that is from the POV I’m replacing it with; so obviously these two chapters should be combined; except