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Heatherings
Jan. 15th, 2012 10:11 pmI feel like all my LJ friends ... tempted to start each post with an apology for not posting more often. The holiday season (which extends through SCA 12th Night) is finally over and cleaned up after. I feel like I'm finally starting to move forward (as opposed to running to keep in place) on my home organization and financial status, although there are still several big chunks of projects to do on the house, not counting the yard. I pruned another large chunk of the roses today and took out several of the smaller volunteer fan palms. It's that time of year when I'm grateful for the fixed size of the green trash bin as a limit to how much yard work it makes sense to do in a week. The last set of bookcases I needed turned up on Craig's List and the fiction is now all unpacked (although I haven't yet set up the risers for the back row on each shelf -- still mulling over the best material). I've re-implemented my over-engineered multi-level housekeeping task lists. I'll see what sort of rhythm that settles into.
I'm chugging my way through the novel revisions. I've made a good stab at coming up with all the proper names I still need, although I'm still working on the specialized technical vocabulary for my magico-relgious system. This requires digging out the Latin and Greek dictionaries (since I'd already established that basis for the terminology). I really need to get the engineering work done on the house so I can confirm whether the library needs any foundation work -- this pulling of book boxes out one at a time is horribly inefficient. Once I started working my way through the revisions, it seems like there's a lot less that needs doing than I remembered. This is a Good Thing -- and probably a testament to the viability of my new writing process. (I.e., I really am forcing myself to write things in-line rather than skipping over the "hard bits" until the rewrite.) I'm still in the stage of working on the existing flagged bits and trying to hold off on the front-to-back once through until everything's actually in place. In a weird way, I don't want to risk getting tired of reading the story by going through it too many times.
I thought I had more to write about but my brain is reminding me that it's bedtime on a work night and -- along with the auto-timer on the computer -- it is counting down to sleep time.
I'm chugging my way through the novel revisions. I've made a good stab at coming up with all the proper names I still need, although I'm still working on the specialized technical vocabulary for my magico-relgious system. This requires digging out the Latin and Greek dictionaries (since I'd already established that basis for the terminology). I really need to get the engineering work done on the house so I can confirm whether the library needs any foundation work -- this pulling of book boxes out one at a time is horribly inefficient. Once I started working my way through the revisions, it seems like there's a lot less that needs doing than I remembered. This is a Good Thing -- and probably a testament to the viability of my new writing process. (I.e., I really am forcing myself to write things in-line rather than skipping over the "hard bits" until the rewrite.) I'm still in the stage of working on the existing flagged bits and trying to hold off on the front-to-back once through until everything's actually in place. In a weird way, I don't want to risk getting tired of reading the story by going through it too many times.
I thought I had more to write about but my brain is reminding me that it's bedtime on a work night and -- along with the auto-timer on the computer -- it is counting down to sleep time.
