The kindness of strangers (well, not really strangers)

[j_cheney]

After my whinging last night, the Esteemed Program Coordinator of ArmadilloCon squeezed me into the BU RFR. Evidently, she was in the midst of a power outage and was outside in her car working on a laptop....that's dedication! I'm always impressed by how hard the FACT people work on their Cons.

I spent another day working on the re-write of Shared Dreams. I discovered that I have a very illogical bias in my head that says writing a 10K story shouldn't take more than 1 day. Where I got this incredibly stupid idea, I don't know. After all, a 150K novel seems to take about 6 months to get through the first draft---not 15 days.

Still, that prejudice is there, and I feel bad that I'm about to launch into the 3rd day of working on this...and it's a re-write, for Heaven's sake! The October story (now entitled "Inheritance of Fire") keeps popping into my head and suggesting plot twists.

Got 7 more critiques this morning on AMOD. Go Critters! Because I'm doing something else, I'm just printing them, popping off a thank you e-mail, and sticking the e-critiques in my oubliette. I'll look at them later when I'm not so involved with SD, although one person who critted me mentioned that she is a friend of a friend on LJ....I'll have to look into that. (I glanced at the printout).

Comments

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading. Sorry. They just stick us broads in a room and let us read....and hopefully someone shows up. ;o)

(I did it at World Fantasy Con last year, and it was really cool)

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

I've done a few readings now, short at WFC and half hour slots at Albacon for the last several years. No Albacon this year, of course, because the lovely dedicated people afflicted with the above-mentioned con-organizing insanity are hard at work putting together World Fantasy. For some reason, they felt they couldn't to a mid-sized con in October and turn around and do WFC three weeks later. Go figure...

I had heard there were plans to do a relaxacon instead.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

After talking with the person who organized WFC last year, I bet they need it!

[displacedtexan.livejournal.com]

I got in trouble once for calling a dame a broad. Is "broad" okay now?

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Meh...