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Sep. 14th, 2014 11:26 pmProgress notes for September 14, 2014
Total words new or revised : + 568. Which is slightly awkward, as there was -565 included in that total...
Reason for stopping: Finished revamp of scene.
Tea: Cornelia Bean's Pear Garden Ginger Fresh, plain water.
Music: Lennie Gallant - Live at the Carleton
Mean Things: the whole thing, really, but I went through this scene not that long ago, before I decided on the alternate descent.
Darling du jour: "Sorry I'm a burden right now," she said, and she meant it, but it felt even better that it made him laugh.
Just finished reading: Joshua Palmatier - The Skewed Throne. Steles of the Sky - Elizabeth Bear. The latter was vastly and noticeably better reading than the former, but I have more to say about Palmatier.
Next on the to-read pile - Martha Wells - The Serpent Sea and the Siren Depths, Kate Elliott - Cold Steel
Inevitable asides: I actually quite liked this last Doctor Who as a story, in ALMOST all respects. Here's my facebook comment about the one exception:
I hate being distracted by a cool tv show concept by what I call the Fallacy of Universal experience (Does it have a different formal name, Jeff?). To be a bit clearer, not every human culture has beds that are platforms raised off the ground. Not even every Western person has this. So why would nightmares about monsters under the bed be not only common to every human being, but literally universal?
Argh. it would have been so easy to write that little bit out (Ed. as small and simple as turn it into AN example that happens to be central in THIS case, instead of THE example). Instead it nags at me.
Total words new or revised : + 568. Which is slightly awkward, as there was -565 included in that total...
Reason for stopping: Finished revamp of scene.
Tea: Cornelia Bean's Pear Garden Ginger Fresh, plain water.
Music: Lennie Gallant - Live at the Carleton
Mean Things: the whole thing, really, but I went through this scene not that long ago, before I decided on the alternate descent.
Darling du jour: "Sorry I'm a burden right now," she said, and she meant it, but it felt even better that it made him laugh.
Just finished reading: Joshua Palmatier - The Skewed Throne. Steles of the Sky - Elizabeth Bear. The latter was vastly and noticeably better reading than the former, but I have more to say about Palmatier.
Next on the to-read pile - Martha Wells - The Serpent Sea and the Siren Depths, Kate Elliott - Cold Steel
Inevitable asides: I actually quite liked this last Doctor Who as a story, in ALMOST all respects. Here's my facebook comment about the one exception:
I hate being distracted by a cool tv show concept by what I call the Fallacy of Universal experience (Does it have a different formal name, Jeff?). To be a bit clearer, not every human culture has beds that are platforms raised off the ground. Not even every Western person has this. So why would nightmares about monsters under the bed be not only common to every human being, but literally universal?
Argh. it would have been so easy to write that little bit out (Ed. as small and simple as turn it into AN example that happens to be central in THIS case, instead of THE example). Instead it nags at me.
