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posted by [personal profile] imaginarycircus at 03:27pm on 12/10/2008
Zokutou word meterZokutou word meter
38,775 / 70,000
(55.4%)


I ended up taking yesterday off. I still feel like the scenes I am writing are too long, but I wanted Allie to have some nice moments before her life turns into a waking nightmare.

Hmmmm... if I can keep up my 2k word a day schedule for the next fifteen days I'll make my goal of having this rewrite done by the end of the month. I'll probably need a week or two to go over it and edit it a bit more. So perhaps I'll be sending it back to agent in early November. I would be very happy if I could get that much work done. Then I can start making Christmas gifts and sleep a lot.

I can already feel the pull of future revisions. So much is falling into place in this draft, but so much still needs work--I think with every draft the changes become finer and finer. The refining process of narrative text is rather elaborate.

I've had a very happy idea for writing exercises the next time I teach a workshop. I need to start looking into that at several local colleges and schools that offer creative writing courses. If anyone wants to try this exercise and let me know how it goes that would be cool.

writing exercise )
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posted by [personal profile] imaginarycircus at 09:21pm on 12/10/2008
A year ago today David and I drove up from NYC to find an apartment here in Cambridge. (That was the deal we made when we decided I would go to grad school at Sarah Lawrence. We agreed to move back to Cambridge when I was done.)

We looked at four apartments, but while we were waiting for the rental agent to arrive and show us the apartment where we currently live a parade went by. And it wasn't like boy scouts and shriners--it was the Leftist Marching Band, Bikes Not Bombs, and a lot of crazy looking marching bands in drag. We thought it was a good omen. It was.

Today they had HONK! again. No cars, only people on bikes or on foot or on stilts. We walked up to my coffee shop and I took some photos. It was pretty much pure joy and everything I love about this city.



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