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cblj_backupI had a post half-written this afternoon but I think I left it at work. Guess you'll get that tomorrow...
You guys, I'm such a fucking grownup, last night I went to A WINE BAR. A FANCY DOWNTOWN LOUNGE. They serve wine flights! More importantly, they serve cheese tasting flights. Most importantly of all I went there with OTHER GROWNUPS.
There's a bunch of us at the office, not just in my department, who do theatre in our off-hours, so we got together to network, though for "network" mostly read "drink wine and gossip". I did get to talk about a new play I'm working on writing, which impressed them way more than I thought it would (if it ever gets out that I write novels, apparently I'm going to blow some fucking minds), and we helped one of the other people make some venue connections for their wee little theatre company that has no home, and then we dished dirt on the people we work with for like, an hour. Good times. It was like blogging only with faces. Faces and cheese.
I am up to my elbows in Dead Isle, meantime; I'm trying to get through a hundred pages a day of quickie-readthrough, and only managing about seventy. I have caught some good stuff though; a couple of relics from earlier drafts snuck in, like Jack PSYCHICALLY knowing that they're going to Canberra about twenty pages before Ellis finds out he needs to go to Canberra. Oops. Fixed now!
I started playing around with the sequel I said I wasn't writing, too. Not with any intent, just sketching out scenes, and now I see the appeal of sequels because it's like fanfic. All the characters and settings and worldbuilding are already in place! I don't want to imply writing fanfic is easier or less awesome than writing original work, but oh my god writing sequels is so easy. I'm still not technically writing the sequel, but it's awfully fun to mess around with it.
You guys, I'm such a fucking grownup, last night I went to A WINE BAR. A FANCY DOWNTOWN LOUNGE. They serve wine flights! More importantly, they serve cheese tasting flights. Most importantly of all I went there with OTHER GROWNUPS.
There's a bunch of us at the office, not just in my department, who do theatre in our off-hours, so we got together to network, though for "network" mostly read "drink wine and gossip". I did get to talk about a new play I'm working on writing, which impressed them way more than I thought it would (if it ever gets out that I write novels, apparently I'm going to blow some fucking minds), and we helped one of the other people make some venue connections for their wee little theatre company that has no home, and then we dished dirt on the people we work with for like, an hour. Good times. It was like blogging only with faces. Faces and cheese.
I am up to my elbows in Dead Isle, meantime; I'm trying to get through a hundred pages a day of quickie-readthrough, and only managing about seventy. I have caught some good stuff though; a couple of relics from earlier drafts snuck in, like Jack PSYCHICALLY knowing that they're going to Canberra about twenty pages before Ellis finds out he needs to go to Canberra. Oops. Fixed now!
I started playing around with the sequel I said I wasn't writing, too. Not with any intent, just sketching out scenes, and now I see the appeal of sequels because it's like fanfic. All the characters and settings and worldbuilding are already in place! I don't want to imply writing fanfic is easier or less awesome than writing original work, but oh my god writing sequels is so easy. I'm still not technically writing the sequel, but it's awfully fun to mess around with it.
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Date: 2012-03-30 01:57 am (UTC)