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Christmas postmortem
Dec. 29th, 2006 05:46 amThis has been one of my better trips out here, mostly because I spent most of my waking hours with good friends.
I get back in Montreal on the red-eye flight, and get in some time after 7 am.
My current word count on my novel 20,088 -- not bad for 11 days of work, and I expect to get another 2000 words today. I was hoping for more, but there's only so much I can write in a day without my creative well running dry. I spent the last 24 hours excising one supernatural element -- it shall have to wait for a future novel -- and much of the last week better developing the other.
Neil Gaiman's Smoke and Mirrors got better by the end. Murder Mysteries -- a pulp detective murder mystery set in heaven before the birth of the universe -- was very good, and the retelling of Snow White from the Queen's perspective (Snow, Glass, Apples) is quite possibly one of the most chilling stories written, and classic Gaiman.
And cats with captions are funny, but I can't find the really good site we were looking at on Christmas Day. This one is okay, though be warned some of the captions are not worksafe. In any case, I found the place where these are being created:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
cat_macros.
I get back in Montreal on the red-eye flight, and get in some time after 7 am.
My current word count on my novel 20,088 -- not bad for 11 days of work, and I expect to get another 2000 words today. I was hoping for more, but there's only so much I can write in a day without my creative well running dry. I spent the last 24 hours excising one supernatural element -- it shall have to wait for a future novel -- and much of the last week better developing the other.
Neil Gaiman's Smoke and Mirrors got better by the end. Murder Mysteries -- a pulp detective murder mystery set in heaven before the birth of the universe -- was very good, and the retelling of Snow White from the Queen's perspective (Snow, Glass, Apples) is quite possibly one of the most chilling stories written, and classic Gaiman.
And cats with captions are funny, but I can't find the really good site we were looking at on Christmas Day. This one is okay, though be warned some of the captions are not worksafe. In any case, I found the place where these are being created:
cat_macros.