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Romance novel covers "reimagined".
Ho-hum. Am mentally preparing myself: Four 8.25-hour days in a row of unrelieved boredom in Club Nobody Ever Comes In Here And Buys A Drink, Let Alone Leaves A Tip. I hope I can get some serious whipping-into-shape-of-the-Vikingsnovel done. But as I've said, that's nigh-impossible to do on the Newton: I need to take a big-picture view when editing, and the Newton makes that entirely impossible. So I can rewrite dribs and drabs, with the paper copy in front of me if I'm lucky enough to have one, but i really need to do a big-picture overhaul of the first 8 chapters and I don't think it'll work.
But, we'll try. Today's the day I see if it's feasible.
At least I'll try to redo Ch. 8, to make the first beta draft. I've been able to do that at work. I can't do the second beta, but maybe the first. That's a simpler rewrite and I don't need access to quite so much material. (Although, in Ch. 8's case, it seems I do, as i was utterly unable to get it finished last week due to not knowing what I'd already written.)
Failing that, I'm bringing Lost Tales and its sequel with me to work, and I'll read those instead and get nothing done.
In short, this week is going to be a big fat fucking waste of my fucking time.
I mean, we'll see. Yes. That's what I meant to say. I'm being fucking optimistic here, right? Yeah. Fuck. I'm never going to finish this fucking novel.
Er, I mean... Whatever.
applegnat's journal: Romance novel covers "reimagined".
I think a lot of us can agree that a large number of romance novel covers are pretty silly and are just asking to be ridiculed. So that's exactly what I did. I bought a few of them at the used book store and got to work on them. The artwork almost writes its own jokes.
Ho-hum. Am mentally preparing myself: Four 8.25-hour days in a row of unrelieved boredom in Club Nobody Ever Comes In Here And Buys A Drink, Let Alone Leaves A Tip. I hope I can get some serious whipping-into-shape-of-the-Vikingsnovel done. But as I've said, that's nigh-impossible to do on the Newton: I need to take a big-picture view when editing, and the Newton makes that entirely impossible. So I can rewrite dribs and drabs, with the paper copy in front of me if I'm lucky enough to have one, but i really need to do a big-picture overhaul of the first 8 chapters and I don't think it'll work.
But, we'll try. Today's the day I see if it's feasible.
At least I'll try to redo Ch. 8, to make the first beta draft. I've been able to do that at work. I can't do the second beta, but maybe the first. That's a simpler rewrite and I don't need access to quite so much material. (Although, in Ch. 8's case, it seems I do, as i was utterly unable to get it finished last week due to not knowing what I'd already written.)
Failing that, I'm bringing Lost Tales and its sequel with me to work, and I'll read those instead and get nothing done.
In short, this week is going to be a big fat fucking waste of my fucking time.
I mean, we'll see. Yes. That's what I meant to say. I'm being fucking optimistic here, right? Yeah. Fuck. I'm never going to finish this fucking novel.
Er, I mean... Whatever.
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Date: 2005-02-27 04:17 pm (UTC)Also, go you on the novel rewrite & keep slogging. I haven't been commenting because I'm stuck in a similar situation and have vowed to completely revise at least two chapters by the end of Feb (which would be, um, tomorrow - back to work!).
We will both finish these
albatrossesnovels.For the impatient
Date: 2005-02-27 07:35 pm (UTC)This is for real [from the worst-cover link]:
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Date: 2005-02-27 07:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-28 02:08 am (UTC)