A book of three birds
I've been joking that my current book is the tale of three birds: a nightingale, a hawk, and the albatross of an author trying to get the thing off the ground.
For weeks, I've been writing 300-500 words per day, and some days nothing at all. Well, yesterday I wrote 3,700 words in one day, which, I guess, is my Muse's way of apologising or ensuring I'm not throwing the towel.
The story now stands at just under 13k, the pieces are mostly in place (I'm missing one major character), and, to stay with the albatross image, the bird is hobbling along and seems now to have moved on from ungainly running to a hint of sailing. Ideally, there will be an uplift or a cliff or something that should help with gaining altitude.
I assume this will end up at 40k+, so definitely novella length. The related research is fun and never ceases to amaze me.
Today, work at work is extremely slow, so I did some fact-checking and very light-touch editing. The beginning will need some rewrites, but I think the overwhelming majority of this is as solid as can be. I really would liket o finish it this month, or maybe August. And after that - more historicals.
On a sidenote, I watched "Cabaret" yesterday, which is three years older than I am. Very surprised to see a m/m/f menage in there and a bit bummed that it didn't work out. Loved all the nods and winks to other stuff, like Otto Dix's paintings. Well worth watching, with an awesome Liza Minelli.
For weeks, I've been writing 300-500 words per day, and some days nothing at all. Well, yesterday I wrote 3,700 words in one day, which, I guess, is my Muse's way of apologising or ensuring I'm not throwing the towel.
The story now stands at just under 13k, the pieces are mostly in place (I'm missing one major character), and, to stay with the albatross image, the bird is hobbling along and seems now to have moved on from ungainly running to a hint of sailing. Ideally, there will be an uplift or a cliff or something that should help with gaining altitude.
I assume this will end up at 40k+, so definitely novella length. The related research is fun and never ceases to amaze me.
Today, work at work is extremely slow, so I did some fact-checking and very light-touch editing. The beginning will need some rewrites, but I think the overwhelming majority of this is as solid as can be. I really would liket o finish it this month, or maybe August. And after that - more historicals.
On a sidenote, I watched "Cabaret" yesterday, which is three years older than I am. Very surprised to see a m/m/f menage in there and a bit bummed that it didn't work out. Loved all the nods and winks to other stuff, like Otto Dix's paintings. Well worth watching, with an awesome Liza Minelli.
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I found it hard to watch TV recently because it's all so predictable. But Cabaret really isn't. It's intense and a little weird and has amazing acting. I'd really, really, recommend it.
I think I need to get back into embroidery when I watch TV; my biggest problem is just not having anything in my hands--I find I tend to eat, and I *know* that's not a good and healthy choice. (Of course, part of my problem with TV may be that I hate daytime programming, and in the evenings the DH takes over and watches hours and hours of fishing...just EW.) I really WANT to watch Cabaret, but, well--as with lots of other stuff that I really want to do--life just keeps getting in the way. (Actually, come to think of it, the DH *might* be willing to give it a try with me--he fussed and moaned about Chicago for ages, but ended up really enjoying it. I may have to just go for it one day. If he really hates it, he can always go play video games on the kids' TV. Or pick up a book, himself.)
*grumbles* I really need a movie buddy and a regular movie night. My Netflix list is getting out of control.
Do the "you choose one, I choose one" thing. I watch comedy with my dude if he watches my war moviews with me. :)
I've tried that. He bitches if I go for my favorites, and I absolutely cannot watch some of the stuff he loves. I get nightmares--really random creepy weird ones; sometimes I wonder if I should try to write horror. Oddly, I can read all kinds of stuff with no problem, but the movies just mess me up all kinds of ways (randomly enough, my first movie-induced nightmare was from Bambi.) We do have a few shows we like to watch together--Bones, Castle, NCIS, and I finally converted him to The Big Bang Theory (turns out I have a thing for geeky-physicist types. Who knew?!)
I watched "Bambi" as a five-year-old, I think. Traumatised me for life. I can't watch horror and I loathe zombie flicks. Thankfully my dude isn't into slasher horror (I watched "The Ring" with him and that was pretty bad... you ust don't feed a writer brain with things like that).
The DH & I joke sometimes when we see one of those dating-website commercials on TV about how they would never in a million years have matched the two of us up. He's all hunting and fishing and the occasional horror movie, while I'm books and baking and light-hearted B&W movies. We don't even have a lot of similarity in music tastes. But the places where we come together, we do it in a big way. We have a few friends who'd far rather come to us for dinner on date night than go to a restaurant.
Heh. "Odd couple" dynamics are fun. :)
Mostly, yeah. Although I sometimes feel like I'm navigating a minefield of negativity. But then, you get those in any relationship.
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Plus, of course, summer is a deadland for me anyway--with the kids home I can't watch anything even remotely adult during the day, and in the evening I want to spend time with the DH (and he's adamantly opposed to musicals and pretty much any movie older than me (with the exception of Star Wars) and since that's my preferred movie base...