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Writing

I'm about one-third through my first heavy edit of the novel. This run-through is to a) make sure it's detailed and excurciatingly historically accurate (the novel takes place over 114 years and in three cities), and b) to make sure it's internally consistent.

To this end, I've been reading dozens of histories, pored over hundreds of documents, gathered a huge collection of photcopied photos, and (in Montreal) visited the locations I'm writing about, and tried to reconstruct what they would've looked like at the time.

I've researched things from the development of phone technology (to know if a person in downtown Montreal in 1945 would need to talk to an operator to make a long distance call), to urban growth patterns (to know what existed in 1900), to the origins of place names (it turns out that the name of the Vancouver neighbourhood of Kerrisdale means "little throne").

I've read up on the lives of saints, on how logging was done in the BC bush in 1890, and what songs were popular in 1974.

After this, I'm going to do a quick edit to make sure it all fits together still, then a deeper edit to enrich the language.

The Future Has Kittens

I graduate in 17 days, and the last Harry Potter book comes out in 54. I'm not really sure which one I'm looking forward to, more.

And the photo of Nietzsche-Cat makes me wonder, is the cat making the statement, or is it the abyss staring back...?

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OK forget Heather O'Neill, you make me feel like Phoebe in that episode of Friends where she heard Ross play the synthesizer. I'll explain later.

I did see a few episodes of friends, so I know who Phoebe is, at least. But yeah, otherwise I'm lost.

Congrats on graduating. A definite accomplishment, but well worth it? Up to you to figure that one out...

Heh. I am glad I've got a degree -- and reading the work of other authors has helped me, for my own writing.

But I do sometimes think that I didn't really get that much of value out of my MA (http://felis-ultharus.livejournal.com/132798.html). Maybe the ability to say, "Would you like fries with that?" in Middle English.

That's a lot of research but it sounds really interesting. I can't wait to see the result. ^_^

I would be more exited about the Harry Potter but then I hate ceremonies. So long and boring.

Hmm. Maybe it's both.

"Hmm. Maybe it's both."

Possible, I suppose. But I expected the abyss to be a little less cute and fuzzy.

Are you kidding? At least 40% of all abysses are cute, fuzzy, or BOTH.

It's true, I looked it up.

May Nietzsche wasn't looking into the Abyss. Maybe he was staring at a cat.

It puts a whole different spin on the history of philosophy, I tell you.