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Things Managed
Sep. 18th, 2019 10:12 amI did manage to do a number of things that I whined about in the previous post, including getting another skim coat on the front steps to the house. Whoo!
Today, it is raining. I have plans to meet-up with a writer friend and work at a coffee shop for a bit this afternoon. I was going to tell her 'no,' but then I decided that it wouldn't kill me to go to a coffee shop for a few minutes, especially if I spent this morning working on my writing as well. I have not YET done any actual words on page, but I got everything that I had previously written (I did a whole lot of this novel, live, as it were, on Wattpad) into the "current" document. I have no idea how much of what I wrote before will actually survive this revision. I suspect that some will? But, I have radically restructured the first three chapters to better layout the plan/theme/plot of the novel... and some of what that is has shifted/clarified. So, we'll see. If I'm not posting here for any chunk of time, assume I am deep in revisions/rewriting.
My deadline is November 1. I plan to make it, come hell or high water. I've been sitting on this thing too long. It needs to get out into the world, even if Precinct 13 fans have long since forgotten about that universe.
It is Wednesday, so I can tell you a bit about what I've been consuming.
On Monday, with my anime group, I finished watching Good Omens. Wow, that was good. Wow, that was gay. Now, like a lot of my friends, I am helplessly watching fan vids to relive all the Crowley/Aziraphale moments.
We also watched ChÅyaku Hyakunin isshu: Uta Koi which I like a lot for the art style, but also because of its very weird conceit, which is that it dramatizes a Heian period poetry anthology. It's kind of a full story version of what I really want from a language learning app, wherein someone would read me stories while pointing to the characters. They actually kind of do this very briefly in each episode. All way too fast for me to study, but I still enjoy it. Plus, it's pretty. Did I mention that it's pretty???
We also finished the disc that our host had of Shounen Onmyouji, which I liked okay, though mostly because I'm fascinated by the ways in which the historical character of Abe no Seimei shows up in anime.
Then, we also continued The Case Files of Lord El-Melloi II, which is based on a video game franchise. I initially did not care for this one, particularly, but the episodes we watched on Monday were an astrological magical manor mystery, which I not only enjoyed the action of, but which I also UNDERSTOOD the magical system on which the mystery was based.
If I've been reading anything, it's snippets of articles in a book Shawn picked up when we were thrift store shopping: The Mother Earth News Almanac from 1970-something, which makes me feel like I could plow up my backyard and live off the land. Though, to be fair, I did actually do a bunch of research yesterday into making our yard more bee-friendly and ordered woodland violet seeds.... so?
Today, it is raining. I have plans to meet-up with a writer friend and work at a coffee shop for a bit this afternoon. I was going to tell her 'no,' but then I decided that it wouldn't kill me to go to a coffee shop for a few minutes, especially if I spent this morning working on my writing as well. I have not YET done any actual words on page, but I got everything that I had previously written (I did a whole lot of this novel, live, as it were, on Wattpad) into the "current" document. I have no idea how much of what I wrote before will actually survive this revision. I suspect that some will? But, I have radically restructured the first three chapters to better layout the plan/theme/plot of the novel... and some of what that is has shifted/clarified. So, we'll see. If I'm not posting here for any chunk of time, assume I am deep in revisions/rewriting.
My deadline is November 1. I plan to make it, come hell or high water. I've been sitting on this thing too long. It needs to get out into the world, even if Precinct 13 fans have long since forgotten about that universe.
It is Wednesday, so I can tell you a bit about what I've been consuming.
On Monday, with my anime group, I finished watching Good Omens. Wow, that was good. Wow, that was gay. Now, like a lot of my friends, I am helplessly watching fan vids to relive all the Crowley/Aziraphale moments.
We also watched ChÅyaku Hyakunin isshu: Uta Koi which I like a lot for the art style, but also because of its very weird conceit, which is that it dramatizes a Heian period poetry anthology. It's kind of a full story version of what I really want from a language learning app, wherein someone would read me stories while pointing to the characters. They actually kind of do this very briefly in each episode. All way too fast for me to study, but I still enjoy it. Plus, it's pretty. Did I mention that it's pretty???
We also finished the disc that our host had of Shounen Onmyouji, which I liked okay, though mostly because I'm fascinated by the ways in which the historical character of Abe no Seimei shows up in anime.
Then, we also continued The Case Files of Lord El-Melloi II, which is based on a video game franchise. I initially did not care for this one, particularly, but the episodes we watched on Monday were an astrological magical manor mystery, which I not only enjoyed the action of, but which I also UNDERSTOOD the magical system on which the mystery was based.
If I've been reading anything, it's snippets of articles in a book Shawn picked up when we were thrift store shopping: The Mother Earth News Almanac from 1970-something, which makes me feel like I could plow up my backyard and live off the land. Though, to be fair, I did actually do a bunch of research yesterday into making our yard more bee-friendly and ordered woodland violet seeds.... so?