Elizabeth Culmer (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
edenfalling) wrote2008-04-12 12:16 am
edenfalling) wrote2008-04-12 12:16 am
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life update -- writing and family visits
On the writing front, I finished the rough draft of my ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
remixredux08 story Thursday night and did some preliminary revisions tonight.
If anyone is willing to do a lightning-fast read-through tomorrow, please tell me, and I'll email it to you Saturday morning. (If not, that's okay. I should be able to strip out the most egregious stupidity on my own -- I just worry about the second-most egregious bits of stupidity, and the places where I'm beating a theme into the ground, making logical jumps without explaining how I got from point A to point L, or failing to tie one section of the story into another section.)
I have the oddest feeling that I've written this story before, and I know exactly why I have that feeling despite the significant differences between the two stories in question (starting with them not even sharing a fandom!), but saying anything more would be too revealing.
(ETA, 4/12/08: Have tweaked the remix so it's not such an obvious echo of my previous story. Of course, this involved adding echoes of a second story, but those echoes are things that tend to turn up in half of everything I write anyway -- you may not always notice them, because I do try to prune them back when they're superfluous -- and so I'm kind of resigned to them.)
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In other news, my mom is visiting. She drove up this afternoon, did my laundry while I was at work (my mom is weird like that), and then we had dinner at the Lost Dog Cafe, which was quite nice. Tomorrow we plan to run some errands (including shoe shopping for Cat's wedding), have a picnic lunch (which will probably end up being indoors, since it looks like rain), and just generally catch up.
I do like seeing my parents every couple months. It's nice to keep in touch. (And on the same note, it's nice that I don't have to see them every week -- that would be far too much of a good thing!)
remixredux08 story Thursday night and did some preliminary revisions tonight.If anyone is willing to do a lightning-fast read-through tomorrow, please tell me, and I'll email it to you Saturday morning. (If not, that's okay. I should be able to strip out the most egregious stupidity on my own -- I just worry about the second-most egregious bits of stupidity, and the places where I'm beating a theme into the ground, making logical jumps without explaining how I got from point A to point L, or failing to tie one section of the story into another section.)
I have the oddest feeling that I've written this story before, and I know exactly why I have that feeling despite the significant differences between the two stories in question (starting with them not even sharing a fandom!), but saying anything more would be too revealing.
(ETA, 4/12/08: Have tweaked the remix so it's not such an obvious echo of my previous story. Of course, this involved adding echoes of a second story, but those echoes are things that tend to turn up in half of everything I write anyway -- you may not always notice them, because I do try to prune them back when they're superfluous -- and so I'm kind of resigned to them.)
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In other news, my mom is visiting. She drove up this afternoon, did my laundry while I was at work (my mom is weird like that), and then we had dinner at the Lost Dog Cafe, which was quite nice. Tomorrow we plan to run some errands (including shoe shopping for Cat's wedding), have a picnic lunch (which will probably end up being indoors, since it looks like rain), and just generally catch up.
I do like seeing my parents every couple months. It's nice to keep in touch. (And on the same note, it's nice that I don't have to see them every week -- that would be far too much of a good thing!)