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Jul. 9th, 2014 10:50 pmProgress notes for July 9, 2014
Total words new or revised : + 60, -86. Or thereabouts; A purely editing day, on a stretch of story needing minimal editing.
Reason for stopping: The hour...
Tea: homemade milk chai.
Music: none
There's Always one more Quirk in the character: Of course Gerald would be a Michael Jackson fan. He last saw or heard Michael Jackson about a year after Thriller came out, and while it was still a top selling album.
Mean Things: Bugs laying eggs inside one.
Research: Top hits of 1983...
Books I'm Reading: Oriole A. Vane-Veldhuis - For Elise, Pratchett - Raising Steam
To-Read Pile toppers: S.ClarkeCollins - Gregor the Overlander, KAtherine Addison - The Goblin Emperor.
Inevitable Asides:
Obviously didn't go to the Folk Fest mainstage tonight. However, minimal novel progress can mostly be attributed to Joseph's complete lack of a nap this afternoon.
While I enjoyed Chadwick Ginther's Thunder Road and will likely read the sequel, because Norse Gods in Manitoba just works, it's definitely a man's book written by a guy. If I had to summarize it in one word, as I said on Goodreads, it would be "Muscular". Note, none of that is criticism, merely description.
OTOH, I'm bothered by Bechdel-failure and the only major female character being the Girlfriend (Even though she's a darn powerful Norn - the only other women I remember at all are her mother and great-great-grandmother. There might be a waitress), even as I liked most of the rest, and I'm pretty sure it would have been feasible to have another woman or two onstage and still have the same mood and attitude.
Total words new or revised : + 60, -86. Or thereabouts; A purely editing day, on a stretch of story needing minimal editing.
Reason for stopping: The hour...
Tea: homemade milk chai.
Music: none
There's Always one more Quirk in the character: Of course Gerald would be a Michael Jackson fan. He last saw or heard Michael Jackson about a year after Thriller came out, and while it was still a top selling album.
Mean Things: Bugs laying eggs inside one.
Research: Top hits of 1983...
Books I'm Reading: Oriole A. Vane-Veldhuis - For Elise, Pratchett - Raising Steam
To-Read Pile toppers: S.
Inevitable Asides:
Obviously didn't go to the Folk Fest mainstage tonight. However, minimal novel progress can mostly be attributed to Joseph's complete lack of a nap this afternoon.
While I enjoyed Chadwick Ginther's Thunder Road and will likely read the sequel, because Norse Gods in Manitoba just works, it's definitely a man's book written by a guy. If I had to summarize it in one word, as I said on Goodreads, it would be "Muscular". Note, none of that is criticism, merely description.
OTOH, I'm bothered by Bechdel-failure and the only major female character being the Girlfriend (Even though she's a darn powerful Norn - the only other women I remember at all are her mother and great-great-grandmother. There might be a waitress), even as I liked most of the rest, and I'm pretty sure it would have been feasible to have another woman or two onstage and still have the same mood and attitude.
