Status

[desperance]

Pages: three. One before coffee, two after shopping. Some people swim better than others, apparently.

Progress: backward. Two weeks ago, I thought I could finish this book in fifty pages. Since then I have written eighty-seven pages, and no longer believe that I can finish it in another fifty. This ... depresses me. Also, who cares if some people swim better than others?

I am going to eat a sammich and bake a cake. A big heavy season-appropriate fruit cake. Which I will then marzipan and ice, and then eat. By myself, largely. That'll fix this weight-loss thing. I'm down a stone now, more or less, but cake will give it back. Oh, yes.

Comments

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Also, who cares if some people swim better than others?

Me! :)

But do not despair. You will finish the book. *hugs*

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

I couldn't care about swimming but oh, I am jealous of that cake!

[triciasullivan.livejournal.com]

Why do you keep posting the stuff that is going on inside my head? Are you a ventriloquist?

I'm having the same problem with mine. The end is in sight...until it isn't. OK, I'm not doing remotely as many pages as you, but the torment is pretty much the same.

I'm going to believe mizkit is right and so should you! You get a medal for sticking it out and not collapsing in a shivering heap!

Yum for cake.

[jeremy-m.livejournal.com]

> Progress: backward. ...

When this happens in the software industry we would give you three helpers, who write strange chapters unrelated to what you need, then we decide it's taking too long and stop work on the book for a month while we start writing a new one, then decide that will take too long and abandon it to restart the old one, then move you to fixing plot holes in a book published last year, then stop all new writing in favour of changing all the names to match the latest best seller, then go bankrupt.

Now I come to think about it, maybe your system is better.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I must get on with making the Christmas cake.... Should have been done two months ago.
If one large cake fails to re-instate the weight, then will you make enquiries with your GP?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I will see what happens over the Festive Season. Because we all know what Festive means: it means constant availability of meaty & sweety snacks, plus cold weather that leans me towards constant snacking. If a month of that - with my birthday at the end thereof - doesn't fix this, yes: I will go and amuse my GP with this novel concept. Promise.

[pennski.livejournal.com]

We will keep you to that promise!

[maeve-the-red.livejournal.com]

I think we can do business.

I have a novel that's contracted to be 100K and I'm looking at it ending up at about 80K tops, unless something really surprising happens. I am also putting on weight like a bear about to hibernate.

So, here's the deal: you pass me some of that spare plot, and I post you some unwanted body-fat. No questions asked.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

That would be a deal. I can do you some spare dragon, quite a lot of sailing (with or without pirates) and imperial jade (which has Powers and Properties). Also, angst. Everywhere is angst.

[maeve-the-red.livejournal.com]

I'm sorted for angst and I have a dragon allergy, but a bit of piratical activity would be good and I definitely like the idea of magic green stone.

Oh wait ... I'm meant to be writing SF, not fantasy. Buggrit. Oh well, I'm pretty sure you didn't really want my cellulite anyway.