Monday looking pretty good so far
Sep. 26th, 2005 09:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperAnd, another Monday. This one is special, for lo, I have now reached the four-month mark with Luna. I passed the turnaround time from Tor several days ago, but this feels cooler since it's an even milestone. I'm still trying very hard not to be twitchy about thinking about my manuscript, but it's slowly getting ever so slightly harder. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mizkit says that the longer one goes, the greater one's chances are of getting a positive response--and at the same time, I've seen both Kit and shadowhwk go upwards of nine months and even a year, and then still getting a rejection letter. Argh, the suspense!
It does, at least, continue to help that I have another active project.
In the meantime, the weekend was enjoyable despite a lack of productive writing. As I fretted last night under my writing filter, I realized that the current chapter in progress was rather an incoherent mess, and I needed to take an axe to it because it wouldn't wait until the second draft. This has, however, seemed to lead to an important epiphany that may well shape the rest of this story and the trilogy as a whole.
Friday, as previously posted, was the birthday dinner at the Burning Hand in honor ofkathrynt's mother.
Saturday afternoon was great fun, thanks tomamishka coming over and getting caught up with me on the second episode of "Bones", the second season premiere of Lost (and OH the Lost-ness!), and the summer finale of BSG. (On that, see previous commentary re: ARGH!)
Saturday evening was even more fun, as Meems and I then went out to meet up withjessicac, her spouse, and kingchiron at the Northwest Film Forum in Capitol Hill for a viewing of Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation. This was HUGELY fun, just to see what a pack of children did with their own homemade version of what remains to this day my favorite film of all time. I watched this with bits of the actual movie playing through the back of my head the entire time, and mouthing all the lines a beat before the kids actually did, much to Meems' amusement. How many different things the kids actually managed to pull off was astounding--such as getting permission to record on an actual submarine. My favorite part, though? They couldn't get a monkey, so for the scenes involving the monkey in Egypt, they substituted a puppy instead. TOO, TOO CUTE.
Sunday afternoon there was walking down to the market, for one of the last visits to that for the season.
Tonight, there will be Serenity, forsolarbird has gotten in on the advance screening for bloggers and the press--and hopefully we'll actually be able to get in, since the email she received said we wouldn't be guaranteed seats. We'll see what happens!
Now I just have to make it through the work day, and try not to obsess too much over Captain Tightpants. ;)
Oh, and for general reference, I think I'm officially Over the Flu. YAY!
And we do seem to have a build. Let's see if we'll actually be able to TEST it.
Days until release of The Hard and the Easy: 15
Days without a rejection letter from Luna: 4 months, 0 days
Saturday miles: 1.7
Sunday miles: 2.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 349.25
Miles to Rivendell: 108.75
mizkit says that the longer one goes, the greater one's chances are of getting a positive response--and at the same time, I've seen both Kit and shadowhwk go upwards of nine months and even a year, and then still getting a rejection letter. Argh, the suspense!It does, at least, continue to help that I have another active project.
In the meantime, the weekend was enjoyable despite a lack of productive writing. As I fretted last night under my writing filter, I realized that the current chapter in progress was rather an incoherent mess, and I needed to take an axe to it because it wouldn't wait until the second draft. This has, however, seemed to lead to an important epiphany that may well shape the rest of this story and the trilogy as a whole.
Friday, as previously posted, was the birthday dinner at the Burning Hand in honor of
kathrynt's mother.Saturday afternoon was great fun, thanks to
mamishka coming over and getting caught up with me on the second episode of "Bones", the second season premiere of Lost (and OH the Lost-ness!), and the summer finale of BSG. (On that, see previous commentary re: ARGH!)Saturday evening was even more fun, as Meems and I then went out to meet up with
jessicac, her spouse, and kingchiron at the Northwest Film Forum in Capitol Hill for a viewing of Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation. This was HUGELY fun, just to see what a pack of children did with their own homemade version of what remains to this day my favorite film of all time. I watched this with bits of the actual movie playing through the back of my head the entire time, and mouthing all the lines a beat before the kids actually did, much to Meems' amusement. How many different things the kids actually managed to pull off was astounding--such as getting permission to record on an actual submarine. My favorite part, though? They couldn't get a monkey, so for the scenes involving the monkey in Egypt, they substituted a puppy instead. TOO, TOO CUTE.Sunday afternoon there was walking down to the market, for one of the last visits to that for the season.
Tonight, there will be Serenity, for
solarbird has gotten in on the advance screening for bloggers and the press--and hopefully we'll actually be able to get in, since the email she received said we wouldn't be guaranteed seats. We'll see what happens!Now I just have to make it through the work day, and try not to obsess too much over Captain Tightpants. ;)
Oh, and for general reference, I think I'm officially Over the Flu. YAY!
And we do seem to have a build. Let's see if we'll actually be able to TEST it.
Days until release of The Hard and the Easy: 15
Days without a rejection letter from Luna: 4 months, 0 days
Saturday miles: 1.7
Sunday miles: 2.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 349.25
Miles to Rivendell: 108.75