The President, out Presiding and stuff
Here’s another grab-bag of images from the White House Flickr stream. Even if Romney wins*, I hope this continues.
* Please God, no no no….
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GAHHH!!
DIE BAD WRITING DIE DIE DIE!!!!!
The time has come at last: it’s editing time. Hoo-boy. I didn’t wait quite three months, but I got more than two and a half, and I’ve at last started digging through Princesses In SPACE!!! (not the actual title). I’m hoping that this process will be done by Labor Day, but as in all things, we shall see. This process is, as you might guess, fairly time-consuming.
And for anyone who might worry about whether or not I am sufficiently steel-willed to drag my literary darlings out of their coops in the middle of the night and chop their bloody heads off, well — witness the amount of red ink of corrections on those two pages! I’m about ten pages in thus far, and only one page doesn’t look like that. That’s page one. Because it starts halfway down the page (in keeping with proper manuscript format). Yes, folks — I can rip other people’s writing when the spirit moves me, but when it comes to my own, I’m utterly medieval.
Onward and upward!
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Manuscript Ahoy!
Since I’m gearing up to start editing it in July, I finally got around to printing out a copy of Princesses In SPACE!!! (not the actual title).
It’s all I can do to resist the urge to plunge right into the book right now. I always enjoy doing my editing, even though I can be really brutal on my own work. After I finish one round of edits, I hope to have a few beta-readers give the thing a look-see (note to self: find beta-readers), and then one more round of edits (unless the consensus opinion of the beta-readers is that I’ve written the literary equivalent of Plan 9 From Outer Space, in which case I’ll sit down and drink a lot of rum and have a good cry). Then it’ll be off to a publisher or some such purveyor of fine literary items.
The manuscript is 443 pages long. I wrote it in individual chapter files, but in the end, I wound up copying and pasting all the chapters together into one really big file. Not sure why I’m bothering to tell you all that, but I tend to be interested in matters of process.
Anyway, next week, it’s time to give my darlings a bit of a dust-up. I know, you’re supposed to ‘murder your darlings’, and I may well do so. We’ll see!
In other writing news, The Adventures of Lighthouse Boy (not the actual title) continues churning along, although my output there has not reached the consistent heights that I did whilst writing Princesses. I’m still feeling out my world and making up my backstory as I go, so this one’s a bit tougher going. As of right now the book is just under 28000 words long (roughly 68 pages of a mass-market paperback), and I’ve had six days in the last month where I produced a goose egg for word count, which is…well, not great, but I’m averaging 600 words a day (bolstered by a couple of really good days).
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Hair!!!
Come on get happy!
It’s not the Partridge Family, but the Goose Family! This clan of geese has set up camp behind The Store, as there is plenty of grass and some woods and Cazenovia Creek that runs right by, so I suppose it’s a good location for geese to raise their young’uns before taking them to Canada for their indoctrination. Or something like that. Anyway, here are some photos of the Goose Family.
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Cosplay Love!
Cal regularly posts photos of people engaged in cosplay, a hobby that I find very interesting when done well (and very interesting, in other ways, when done not so well). From his latest such post, I saw this one, which just strikes me as terribly sweet.
