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[desperance]

When you transmute lead into gold - or indeed spin straw into gold - I wonder if the transition is lossy? If it is, then there may be hope yet. I have finished the edit on 'River of the World', and really all I've done is cut. There were 188,000 words; there are now 152,000. It may be okay, or it may be entirely the other thing. Whatever. For now, it is finished, and I have sent it off to my editor, my agents and my friends.

Feedback, no doubt, will occur. In the meantime - well, who knows? Immediately, I am going to finish this bottle of wine. After that, come what will...

Comments

[devonellington.livejournal.com]

Yes, my dear, finish your wine and start spinning another tale.

Maybe you can fit in one of the short stories you've been mulling over before you start on the play?

Congrats on finishing the edit, by the way. Wonderful!

I'm battling with deadlined articles and tidbits of information and the correct words flitting just beyond my reach as they blast the brickwork right outside the mirror.

On second thought, pass the wine, okay?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

[Passes wine - oh whoops, oh no, bottle empty. Opens new bottle, passes wine...]

[devonellington.livejournal.com]

Ahh, thanks, much better.

Interesting, in the previous post I wrote "mirror" rather than "window" -- wonder what that's about?

Well fortified with the proper wine and with the brick blaster packed up for the night, I'm tackling the articles again.