imaginarycircus

I have forty pages printed out and I need to cut all the flab from them and make sure the prose is composed of fleet little greyhounds racing along in some places and trotting in others. It's OK if there is a lazy sharpei every once in a while, but the whole thing can't be big fat floppy sharpeis. I just don't know how you would read all those wrinkles a folds without annoying both the dog and yourself.

I have coffee and there are blueberry muffins in the oven. I'll have to leave the house for milk so I can have more coffee, but otherwise we're not going out because OMG 4 inches of rain. Send the ark.

I've started planning what we're going to do in Portsmouth (massages) and what we're going to do in Paris (eat chocolate and walk around a lot) and my aunt just let me know that the amazing macaron patisserie is very close to her apartment, where we are staying. THIS IS DEADLY NEWS!

I must earn those macarons and that massage. HUZZA!

I'm pretty sure this was taken in a Whole Foods in Nashville, TN in 1999 around Valentine's Day. We went to Graceland on Valentine's Day, but were too intimidated by the serious people to throw ourselves on the ground and weep. I think we should have worn widow's weeds to pull that off. But honestly the whole place is just so SAD.

I felt like I needed one of those eye opener devices from a Clockwork Orange today to keep myself working. I hate working at home, but it was pouring rain and I didn't want to go out to the coffee shop. I did manage to work for several hours, but it was ugly.

I've been doing odd work for a while in which I end up writing a bit and then spending time chopping other stuff out, thinning scenes and sentences. I think I finally cracked a chapter today that has been bugging me for months. It may still need work, but I think it's better now.

So this sucker may do that dumb thing where it grows and then shrinks because of chopping.

Aegis, draft v:

40542 / 80000 words. 51% done!


Did you ever play capture the flag when you were a kid? I was really good at sneaking across the line quietly and coming around the edge and taking the flag and then running all out back across the line. I was always amazed when I stepped across the line that no one on the other team noticed. I feel a little like that now and I really don't want the other team to notice me sneaking around behind all the text here--where the other team equals the reader.