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solarbird and I got back from looking at a potentially very interesting house in Kenmore.
(This seeing went a lot better than Sunday; for one thing, the agent actually SHOWED UP. For another, she was very amiable and friendly, and chatted with us about herself and her experiences with the neighborhood; she lives a scant five blocks away from the house she was showing us. For a third, there's a lot about the house that both Dara and I find interesting, for all that it has a couple of big things that would need major rework attention before we moved in. I'm really grooving on how the house is laid out in multiple levels; it's got like five different levels, if you count the mini-basement. And it's got some nice views of Lake Washington, since it's up high on a hill in Kenmore. Distinct street noise coming up from 522, but not enough to really be annoying, and the house is nice and quiet inside. But we'll see where it goes. The owner, from what the agent was telling us, was very open to making any needed repairs.)
But anyway. Right, trilogy. It's weird, starting a whole new book! Technically it isn't brand new, since I did do all of the worldbuilding on this thing prior to breaking my arm, but since I let it sit for so long and really didn't get that much actual writing done on it before, it really is still rather new in my brain. To my satisfaction, I found that after reviewing several of my files of notes, I felt ready to just go ahead and write. Not to mention that I kind of need to, at this point; I've gotten into the habit and am anxious to keep it up. The 500 words a day thing is working really well for me!
I am finding pretty much right out of the gate, though, that as with Faerie Blood, so with Lament of the Dove: I'll very likely be dramatically underestimating how many words I'm actually going to need to tell what I want to tell. I've got about five chapters' worth of outline, but if FB is any indication, this'll turn out to be more like 8-10 chapters. Or else I'm going to have much longer chapters with this story. I'm not sure yet. It's feeling different already, since a) I'm writing in third person here rather than in first, and b) I've got three lead characters whose stories I will be telling, interwoven with one another, so I've got a much denser amount of detail I'll need to convey. Plus it's a much more serious story, in tone, and just feels like it's going to need a lot more words than Rachel and Christopher and company did. But we'll see!
Written tonight: 570
Chapter 1 total: 1,400
LD total: 7,036
solarbird and I got back from looking at a potentially very interesting house in Kenmore.(This seeing went a lot better than Sunday; for one thing, the agent actually SHOWED UP. For another, she was very amiable and friendly, and chatted with us about herself and her experiences with the neighborhood; she lives a scant five blocks away from the house she was showing us. For a third, there's a lot about the house that both Dara and I find interesting, for all that it has a couple of big things that would need major rework attention before we moved in. I'm really grooving on how the house is laid out in multiple levels; it's got like five different levels, if you count the mini-basement. And it's got some nice views of Lake Washington, since it's up high on a hill in Kenmore. Distinct street noise coming up from 522, but not enough to really be annoying, and the house is nice and quiet inside. But we'll see where it goes. The owner, from what the agent was telling us, was very open to making any needed repairs.)
But anyway. Right, trilogy. It's weird, starting a whole new book! Technically it isn't brand new, since I did do all of the worldbuilding on this thing prior to breaking my arm, but since I let it sit for so long and really didn't get that much actual writing done on it before, it really is still rather new in my brain. To my satisfaction, I found that after reviewing several of my files of notes, I felt ready to just go ahead and write. Not to mention that I kind of need to, at this point; I've gotten into the habit and am anxious to keep it up. The 500 words a day thing is working really well for me!
I am finding pretty much right out of the gate, though, that as with Faerie Blood, so with Lament of the Dove: I'll very likely be dramatically underestimating how many words I'm actually going to need to tell what I want to tell. I've got about five chapters' worth of outline, but if FB is any indication, this'll turn out to be more like 8-10 chapters. Or else I'm going to have much longer chapters with this story. I'm not sure yet. It's feeling different already, since a) I'm writing in third person here rather than in first, and b) I've got three lead characters whose stories I will be telling, interwoven with one another, so I've got a much denser amount of detail I'll need to convey. Plus it's a much more serious story, in tone, and just feels like it's going to need a lot more words than Rachel and Christopher and company did. But we'll see!
Written tonight: 570
Chapter 1 total: 1,400
LD total: 7,036
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Date: 2004-02-02 11:56 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-03 12:06 am (UTC)The good (and un-eastside-like) thing about this house is that it's still near Stuff (kinda) and busses to Stuff. (easily; it's .4 miles from Bothell Way, and .5 to Burke-Gilman, which is only a tenth of a mile further than we go _now_ for the important busses.) Basically, go northwest at 60th Avenue and you're in the right place.
I was willing to look on the eastside - and specifically have been keeping it in my searches - as long as it was near downtown, but nothing right ever came up. It still could, but I'm not betting on it...
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Date: 2004-02-03 10:09 pm (UTC)I can't do the real evil laugh thing either. I can do the Anime Laugh of Mocking Conquest, and I can do the BATSHIT INSANE laugh, but not really the evil one. I should learn!
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Date: 2004-02-05 06:20 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-02-03 09:02 am (UTC)I even wandered around through the house singing snippets of "General Taylor" to test the acoustics. Not quite as cool as I was hoping for, but not bad, either. ;)
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Date: 2004-02-03 02:20 pm (UTC)And, off topic, did you know about
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Date: 2004-02-03 02:25 pm (UTC)And yeah, I knew about the community. :) I'm not on it primarily because I regularly lurk on the message board on Great Big Sea's actual web site, and periodically post there, so I don't really need a second place to get in my GBS fangirl mileage. :) Plus, I've already got a ganormous friends list. ;)