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harborshore) wrote2009-12-07 10:09 am
harborshore) wrote2009-12-07 10:09 am
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1. I currently have five, no, count them, five snowflake cookies in my profile! Guys, seriously, stop being so awesome, I don't know how to deal with it! *beams* Thank you so much!!! ♥ It made my morning here at work, okay?
2. I have three stories in beta, oh god. ETA: that should be two stories in beta and working on finishing the third. We're calling the first sentence pre-breakfast wishful thinking. They are my patented Awful Early Drafts, so I don't envy anyone trying to make sense of them. (My writing process looks a little like this: start with the equivalent of a finger painting of the story you hope to get to, have someone tell you what's wrong with it, and then go through a series of increasingly improving drafts until the last one hopefully looks a little like what you were trying for.)
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bunnymcfoo is collecting money to buy clothes for a youth shelter over here. They need warm clothes for winter, you guys! Last year she raised over 3000 dollars--this is a fantastic initiative, and as long as my student aid check arrives before Christmas, I will certainly be donating.
4. I won't be around much in the next two weeks. I have a technical translation, a philosophy paper, lots of reading, and three stories of varying lengths to finish, and I have to work forty hours, too. So if you see me, tell me to go do work. If you need me/want to tell me something/feel like babbling, email: homeless dot sky at gmail is your best bet. Love!
2. I have three stories in beta, oh god. ETA: that should be two stories in beta and working on finishing the third. We're calling the first sentence pre-breakfast wishful thinking. They are my patented Awful Early Drafts, so I don't envy anyone trying to make sense of them. (My writing process looks a little like this: start with the equivalent of a finger painting of the story you hope to get to, have someone tell you what's wrong with it, and then go through a series of increasingly improving drafts until the last one hopefully looks a little like what you were trying for.)
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bunnymcfoo is collecting money to buy clothes for a youth shelter over here. They need warm clothes for winter, you guys! Last year she raised over 3000 dollars--this is a fantastic initiative, and as long as my student aid check arrives before Christmas, I will certainly be donating.4. I won't be around much in the next two weeks. I have a technical translation, a philosophy paper, lots of reading, and three stories of varying lengths to finish, and I have to work forty hours, too. So if you see me, tell me to go do work. If you need me/want to tell me something/feel like babbling, email: homeless dot sky at gmail is your best bet. Love!
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But ♥, my darling, I appreciate the good wishes.
PS. I'm at work, so I'm technically not procrastinating. Except for on work-related things. Um.
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That is very similar to my writing process also! Write the bare skeletal bones of a story and then go over and over it, filling in the missing pieces and tweaking the direction until I get something in the vicinity of what I'd imagined. But yes, good luck, darling! I will probably continue sending you panicky emails about various stories in various degrees of completion -- I am in awe of your having two, nearly three, already in beta!
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