All the world is quiet on New Year's Day
Jan. 1st, 2013 11:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julian_griffith ...yeah, DON'T I WISH.
Today was a day of hideous distractions. Some of them were my own fault: yes, I stayed off tumblr, but I spent plenty of time chatting with some friends about The State Of The Genre (how the fuck did I wind up writing in a genre that I barely read, except for the things my friends write? There's going to be a learning curve here) and dicking around on my brand new Goodreads account, which was not unrelated to my observations on The State of the Genre.
Some were NOT my fault. I had to take the kid over to the ex's house to collect the school backpack that was left there all vacation, I had to do dishes, and I had to cook dinner. By the time I sat down to work on my femdom-lady-pirate story, it was getting late.
And then![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eternaleponine and the kid start having a conversation, and a friend IMed me, and eternaleponine started watching a TV show that she usually watches on her laptop and it was LOUD, and then ANOTHER friend IMed me, and honestly I should just have gone upstairs and gotten away from all of it, but I didn't, and that was also my own stupid fault.
But I did go THROUGH the thing again. And while I did not carry the plot further forward, I did clear up some of the bracketed parts I'd noted at the beginning for revision - the hundred-gun warship is now a 36-gun ship, which is technically not a frigate as they hadn't been invented quite yet, but there's no point in mentioning that it was a demi-batterie, it is not at all germane to the story - and managed to adapt the dildo scene to include a harness -- Midori's two-scarf harness, which I felt was far more plausible than asking readers to believe that Faiza kept a specially-made one hanging about under her mattress just in case she met a man who was game -- so that it would better match the anthology call specifying pegging.
Given the noise and distractions I have no idea how well those revisions integrated. I'll have to read it over again tomorrow.
But it stands at 8386 words, and I think I've got a good hope of finishing it by the end of the week.
IF I CAN GET SOME QUIET.
Today was a day of hideous distractions. Some of them were my own fault: yes, I stayed off tumblr, but I spent plenty of time chatting with some friends about The State Of The Genre (how the fuck did I wind up writing in a genre that I barely read, except for the things my friends write? There's going to be a learning curve here) and dicking around on my brand new Goodreads account, which was not unrelated to my observations on The State of the Genre.
Some were NOT my fault. I had to take the kid over to the ex's house to collect the school backpack that was left there all vacation, I had to do dishes, and I had to cook dinner. By the time I sat down to work on my femdom-lady-pirate story, it was getting late.
And then
eternaleponine and the kid start having a conversation, and a friend IMed me, and eternaleponine started watching a TV show that she usually watches on her laptop and it was LOUD, and then ANOTHER friend IMed me, and honestly I should just have gone upstairs and gotten away from all of it, but I didn't, and that was also my own stupid fault.But I did go THROUGH the thing again. And while I did not carry the plot further forward, I did clear up some of the bracketed parts I'd noted at the beginning for revision - the hundred-gun warship is now a 36-gun ship, which is technically not a frigate as they hadn't been invented quite yet, but there's no point in mentioning that it was a demi-batterie, it is not at all germane to the story - and managed to adapt the dildo scene to include a harness -- Midori's two-scarf harness, which I felt was far more plausible than asking readers to believe that Faiza kept a specially-made one hanging about under her mattress just in case she met a man who was game -- so that it would better match the anthology call specifying pegging.
Given the noise and distractions I have no idea how well those revisions integrated. I'll have to read it over again tomorrow.
But it stands at 8386 words, and I think I've got a good hope of finishing it by the end of the week.
IF I CAN GET SOME QUIET.
