4 things: chores, reading, writing
Jun. 30th, 2013 11:43 pmThings I have done today:
1. Laundry. Whoo. So exciting.
2. Tied my bell pepper to a stake so it wouldn't fall over.
3. Almost finished reading Before Galileo: The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe by John Freely. It comes damn close to degenerating into a long list of names and book titles in several early chapters (when he is mostly talking about who translated what from Greek to Arabic to Latin), the copy-editing is shaky (I don't usually mark up library books, but I have made at least two corrections in every chapter because I have my limits, jesus fuck), and there are a number of places where it desperately needs diagrams of the scientific instruments and experiments under discussion (what kind of history of science doesn't have diagrams, I ask you???), but overall it's pretty interesting, if very dryly written. One more chapter to go...
4. Wrote some more the the "Secrets" epilogue, which is now at 1,625 words. I had to revise my outline because apparently when I wrote it, I'd forgotten the details of the scene in ch. 9 that my planned conversation referred back to. Bah. So I changed direction a bit, and also went back and tweaked ch. 15 to better lead in to the epilogue by pointedly leaving a certain issue unresolved.
1. Laundry. Whoo. So exciting.
2. Tied my bell pepper to a stake so it wouldn't fall over.
3. Almost finished reading Before Galileo: The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe by John Freely. It comes damn close to degenerating into a long list of names and book titles in several early chapters (when he is mostly talking about who translated what from Greek to Arabic to Latin), the copy-editing is shaky (I don't usually mark up library books, but I have made at least two corrections in every chapter because I have my limits, jesus fuck), and there are a number of places where it desperately needs diagrams of the scientific instruments and experiments under discussion (what kind of history of science doesn't have diagrams, I ask you???), but overall it's pretty interesting, if very dryly written. One more chapter to go...
4. Wrote some more the the "Secrets" epilogue, which is now at 1,625 words. I had to revise my outline because apparently when I wrote it, I'd forgotten the details of the scene in ch. 9 that my planned conversation referred back to. Bah. So I changed direction a bit, and also went back and tweaked ch. 15 to better lead in to the epilogue by pointedly leaving a certain issue unresolved.