plumbing

[dragonlady7]

Holy shit, man. We paid like $600 for the Roto-Rooter guy to do all our drains and our main line and our sewer vent and the whole thing, and I was all, we really didn't need to get allll that done...
Well, I just did my first load of laundry since the work was done. The way our laundry is set up, the washer drains into the stationary tub, which drains into the branch line where we had the blockage. Since the day we moved in, the stationary tub has drained faster than the branch line, and so water has always backed up from the floor drain and come out across the floor a bit. It was always clean water, and always drained away within about two minutes (until the blockage, when it would take about four hours... yummy).
Well?
Stationary tub drains even faster now, and no water gets anywhere on the floor at all.
So that was, I guess, pretty much worth it. My basement is dry now.


In other news (because I feel it would just not be right for me to post an entire entry solely about plumbing), I've got a tentative schedule worked up for the completion of Barbarians Novel's first draft, and I figure once I do that (I want to do it before I go to Georgia), then I'll do the second draft of Vikings Novel.
Is anyone at all interested in doing a quick read-through sometime in mid-February of a novel of probably 90,000 words and giving me very general notes on pacing and plot structure? Just throwing that out there as a preliminary question and something to nudge me to actually get it finished. Because this, which despite being the umpteenth rewrite of the thought, will be the first complete draft, and for completion's sake I'm sort of blowing right by considerations of pacing and there are definitely some continuity errors-- but it ought to be a bloody good story. If it isn't I should probably shoot myself now.

If I finish B-N early, then I'll do some fanfic. I'll take requests for that, too, so expect a poll.

Comments

[jennnlee.livejournal.com]

I could give it a read-through if you want. But I'm a little confused. You want comments on pacing and plot, but you're planning to ignore pacing and continuity in the draft? So why do you want someone to read and tell you that there are problems with the pacing when you already know that there will be?

I'm hesitant to volunteer, because I'm pretty much in "what needs to change to get it published" mode with my own work right now, so I may do the same to yours. And when I did that for another friend, she didn't speak to me for a month, even though she wanted a hard critique. So email me if you want and we can talk about it...

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

I don't know what I want yet because I haven't finished it. I'm asking if anybody wants to help, because if people say yes, then I'll be locked into finishing it and will have that to look forward to. I know there are issues: I'll attempt to identify them once I've finished it, and will probably ask for suggestions on improving the problems I know about, or will flag them as known issues that don't need to be commented on because I'll be working on them. At the moment I am vaguely aware that I am skipping over pacing and continuity issues because if I stop to fix them, I will get bogged down, and will abandon the draft again, and I just want to finish the damn thing once so I can get to the next stage.

I don't know precisely, yet. I'm just trying to motivate myself to get it to the point where I can start to think about what to fix to make it publishable. But first it has to all be down on paper.

But yes, thank you: I will definitely email you when the time is closer.

[jennnlee.livejournal.com]

Ah. Gotcha.

Definitely email me. By February I will (hopefully) be mailing out a batch of queries and could use the distraction. :-)

[elentari-valie.livejournal.com]

I'm in. *raised hand up high*

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

:D Thanks in advance. I'm posting a preview today-- you can reconsider your valor there, if you have the time. :) See what you're getting into.

I'm just impatient to be done and somehow seem to think that starting posting bits will make me feel clever. The final draft, tho', I'll probably either email as attachments, post as files on my webserver, or possibly even print out and mail to the sort who really go in for that kind of thing. I will be posting more about that closer to the completion date.

[elentari-valie.livejournal.com]

the more convenient with me would be emails, I think international mail takes forever, and sending that much paper... well, i rec the e-mail.

Am packing as I type (not literally, but almost), so may not reply on preview later.

I'm anxious. I really digges the few bits you posted before. :)