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

Sorry for the radio silence–Seattle was busy and fun, and I only turned my computer on once. This was also due to the fact that Mark has reconfigured his tiny apartment to accommodate his new art equipment, and there is no longer a natural place for me to use my computer…so I spent time learning