Kim Harrison's Blog, page 154

And somehow, it got to be Friday again

Phew!  What a relief!  I've been working my butt off this week, and I could use a break.

My desk was clean for about three minutes, and now it's covered again with my notes for the Hollows world book.  Yesterday was fun.  I hope to get this section finished today, and then on to the next!

And Hell Followed With Her

My office smells like ozone this morning, which means I've pulled my laser writer out of the closet and am printing out a burnt offering to the editorial gods in New York.  -grin-  Book nine is once again out of my hands, and I'm hoping that Diana likes the changes I made.  It is the same book, but not, which is hard to explain.  It feels less complicated, but more far-reaching.  The endings, be they emotional or physical, feel firmer.  The questions raised are now more pointed, less vague...

Wednesday is hump day, and I'm over the hill.

Okay, that didn't sound as prophetic as I had hoped, but you get the idea.

So, we had a nasty set of storms roll through late yesterday.  Lots of wind, lots of lightning.  We didn't lose power, which is amazing in itself.  The leaves of the maples are still stuck to each other, and they are showing their undersides to make the woods look silver.

The raccoon stole the suet early, before I got out with the dogs for the last time and I could bring it in.  Irritating to say the least.

And it's...

Good day's work

Got a lot done yesterday, and I'm back where I was on Friday night, which I didn't expect.One more day ought to do it, and then I can print out and send.  Yay!  Every rewrite is different for me, even if the same basic steps are involved.  This one was less about tweaking emotion, (though I did that in a few places) and not much about story logic (but I tweaked a couple of spots for that, too.)  The overriding theme of this rewrite was shifting elements to quicken story flow and to keep it...

Bits and Bobs

I feel like my radio today, fuzzing in and out until the signal strengthens.  Had a hard weekend outside, putting down the rest of the mulch, planting a few annuals, tidying the yard, and generally enjoying being outside all day.  We finally got rain Saturday night, the remnants of the storms that tore up the south, but the mountains and cooler night temps took out much of their vigor, and it was only a soft rain.  The woods are green, and it's primeval out my window.

Topped off the weekend...

Friday give-away

THEY ARE GONE.  THANKS GUYS!  YOU ARE AMAZING!

But now I feel bad for a post that's pretty much meaningless, so here's a link to my agent's blog with something about the i pad that had me laughing at the end.

http://ereads.com/2010/04/pianist-lang-langs-tickles-the-ipad-88.html

I am not known for giving things away or having contests.  In fact, I sometimes feel like I'm the exception in the urban fantasy author pool in regards to such things.  But today, I have something for you.  ;-)  In...

Tired

Wow, I'm tired this morning.  I did not sleep until about two in the morning, and then it was restless.   It might have been from eating too much last night. (which was stupid)  Or the pot of green tea (which isn't supposed to have a lot of caffeine.)  But I'm pretty sure it's the rewrite.

I've got one more chapter to go, and for what I want to do, I'm going to have to go back an re-rewrite a chapter and take something out.  And that's the easy part.   After that, there is fixing the current l...

Radio Interview

I've got a radio interview for you today.  I did this way back in Feb when I was in Cincinnati, WVXU interview with Barbara Gray but they just aired it a few days ago, and now it's available.  I don't even remember what the focus was, but it's something to do with Black Magic Sanction.  -grin- Work on the next Hollows book is going great.  I pushed through most of the problem areas, and all that's left is rewriting the end.  The end is okay as it stands, but I've got something better in mind ...

I didn't kick my keyboard's butt . . .

I didn't kick my keyboard's butt, but I brow beat it until it cried.  Monday was like pulling teeth to get my proposed daily workload done.  All I wanted to do was to rewrite just one chapter.  It was only ten pages long.  Ten pages in a rewrite can take up to ten minutes, or it can take ten hours.  This time, it was hours.  But in all fairness, it was an entirely new ten pages, not tweaking.

The original action scene was deemed not serious enough, and the visual gag wasn't working this late i...

Monday again?

That was one of the fastest weekends I've seen in a long time.  Monday already?  It was productive, though.   Had 8 yds of mulch delivered, and top-dressed a third of the front.  There's still a pile of mulch in my drive.  I told Guy it looks like a car rusted to nothing, siting there.  That was Sunday.

Saturday was re-doing the steps in my path because it felt chancy to me.  The guy who installed the path a few years ago went with a slope, not steps, and the slant never set well with me.  I c...