The Sounds of Silence
Aug. 19th, 2009 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseOnce again I need to apologize for silence. My family and I went up to our friends’ cabin in Siren again last weekend, and, apparently, wore ourselves out completely. I think what happened was that we finally had some really amazing Minnesota summer weather on Friday. I think up in Siren it actually hit 90 F/ 32 C. Mason and I spent almost the entire day either on or in the water. We were back on Monday, but I actually spent much of the day napping (something I usually don’t allow myself to do because day time = writing time.) Then yesterday was spent sort of making up for all the things I didn’t do on Monday – calling people back, making plans, cancelling plans (sorry ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
swords_and_pens! sorry jiawen!), etc.
Today, I finally feel like I'm back among the living.
And the week is already half over.
Nurf.
In good news, however, I did manage to get a lot of writing done on Tate's YA project yesterday. Because Mason was finally worn down, he spent much of Monday and Tuesday absorbed in various low-key activities like reading, video gaming, TVing, and LEGOs. (Though we now own the Falcon, he's decided to finish up Vader's Tie-Fighter first.)
Tate, alas, has had to restart the YA for the second time. Turns out I kind of suck when I attempt to write third person. I'd been hoping to stretch myself, you know, do something challenging, but Anne, my editor, finally just suggested I go back to first person and you know, "write a Garnet novel without the sex." It is to laugh. If only becausenaomikritzer and Shawn told me to do that from the beginning. As Shawn says, "You don't mess with the cash cow. Just milk it!"
Indeed.
I'm thinking that if I want to work on my third person skills, I may try to take some time after the YA is do to practice on a couple of short story ideas that have been banging around at the back of my skull ever since I started working on ALMOST (the YA.)
Since Mason is once again occupying himself, I should probably continue to take advantage of that and get started writing.
swords_and_pens! sorry jiawen!), etc.Today, I finally feel like I'm back among the living.
And the week is already half over.
Nurf.
In good news, however, I did manage to get a lot of writing done on Tate's YA project yesterday. Because Mason was finally worn down, he spent much of Monday and Tuesday absorbed in various low-key activities like reading, video gaming, TVing, and LEGOs. (Though we now own the Falcon, he's decided to finish up Vader's Tie-Fighter first.)
Tate, alas, has had to restart the YA for the second time. Turns out I kind of suck when I attempt to write third person. I'd been hoping to stretch myself, you know, do something challenging, but Anne, my editor, finally just suggested I go back to first person and you know, "write a Garnet novel without the sex." It is to laugh. If only because
naomikritzer and Shawn told me to do that from the beginning. As Shawn says, "You don't mess with the cash cow. Just milk it!"Indeed.
I'm thinking that if I want to work on my third person skills, I may try to take some time after the YA is do to practice on a couple of short story ideas that have been banging around at the back of my skull ever since I started working on ALMOST (the YA.)
Since Mason is once again occupying himself, I should probably continue to take advantage of that and get started writing.