... they were definitely going to discharge him so I could make the hour drive down there. Finally the call came at 4 pm. I got down to Dekalb a little after 5 pm. They finally let us out the hospital door at 6:08. Did get some writing done today, but not enough. I'm averaging about 2000 words a day, which isn't going to make up for the early deficiencies in time. Need to get more than that out.
... give up when you see 2/3 of your time to write has gone by or do you pick up the lockets of your hair and the pieces of keyboard after a lot of head bang from the ground and start anew!? I'm sure Vane's cow will appreciate every insight on this matter :D By the way, parallel to this one, I'm writing another entry that will be member-locked, so be sure to be logged so you can also answer there!
...of tough. Gentle readers, there is no coming back from that kind of tough. Not for me. Don't get me wrong. I like my characters just fine. I like the plot. I am certainly not the person to be writing this and doing it any kind of justice. Can I knuckle down and finish it if I really wanted to? At this point, it would be tough, but not impossible. But the question is, should I? The answer to that...
This is my thesis statement: Throughout Diamond Grill, Fred Wah subverts official history by repositioning it within a larger poetic narrative which questions and contradicts it. More specifically, Diamond Grill de-emphasizes the constructed authority of many authoritative documents detailing the Chinese-Canadian experience, and demonstrates that official history can be a highly flawed ...
... all happy and romancey and I hadn't planned on writing (and if I did, it would have been more in...if I felt all happy and romancey, I should be writing a romance scene. Right now. So I made a ...version of the final romance scene in AEFB. And, people, writing romance is hard. It is so easy to stray ... always takes a backseat to the necessary constant of writing. OK Go: I burned myself out on "Here It ...
Meanwhile, Charlie Jane Anders over at io9 asked the question: "Your awesome novel is firing on all thrusters... except one. A major character, who's important to the story, isn't clicking. She's dull, or he doesn't play well with others." What to do? Eileen Gunn, Rachel Pollack, Kelley Eskridge and I answered . (Hint: it has nothing to do with feeding them to the Movember Wolfman.)
For the record, writing a novel in only a month's time is utterly insane. It's a lot of work and I will forever appreciate all the hard work they put into it.
Down to about 168,000 words and 750 pages or so. Maybe I'll reach 150,000 words after all? That's still an awful lot though, I guess. *sighs* I think this stupid project is driving me mad. Already I've failed to complete a page this week solely because I've been working on it and nothing but it. I swear, this idiotic story that I've come to hate will be the death of me. -_-
