Category: C: The Secret Project
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Finished at 63,368
Today was pretty much scumbags and killers day. Had a lot of fun tossing red herrings left and right. (Why are the herrings red, incidentally, and why do they have to be herrings? Would smelt work? Or trout?) And the killer got a fair amount of airtime, though I didn’t get to finish that scene…
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Finished Synopsis, Sent
Finished, revised, re-revised, and sent the synopsis for "C" to my agent. I’d actually planned to write on this thing for a few years before doing anything with it, but Robin was excited about the story, if not the style, and talking with her, a couple of beautiful connections clicked for me, and suddenly I…
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Worked Out a Synopsis Last Night
I talked over "C" with my agent yesterday. Damn near broke her — one shouldn’t break one’s agent. The style of the work was offputting. But she loved the story. So I put a little free time into the story last night (exactly one half hour — I timed myself — and got a preliminary…
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And On My Plate Today
Words. Lots of them. With a starting point of 56,920. I have, however, a gorgeous new keyboard. My Yule present, received last night. A Microsoft Wireless Comfort Keyboard with wireless mouse. It worked perfectly with the Mac straight out of the box, all the button presets automatically picking up my linked system defaults. Its curved…
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C: The Secret Project
I’ve had "C" (the code name for my current secret project) on my hard drive for a while now, but last night I had to break it out and work on it for a while. I had this breathtaking revelation about its structure that suddenly gave me scene after scene — my fingers were flying…