Well. Of course working on the Spare. Above 70K now. Things marche bien or not. Am doing a hard-copy read-through. Characters are beginning to make themselves better known and are falling into their natural places. Also, I wrote two new chapters and I'm zeroing in on the mysterious Mr. Verney. I thought he was a nice man when he appeared, but, gee, he's not. He has much for which he ought to be ashamed! I've been working out my idea for the Barbarian (Well, it's a code name, like MS calling it's document server Tahoe, before they settled on a really boring name, all right?) Anyway, I'm excited about this, I think this will be the next project instead of The List, which is still percolating but not speaking to me as this idea does right now. I have more books on Scotland and I think I've narrowed the time period to probably not medieval and almost surely not Regency. Pre-Culloden, I think. Depends. Also, I am learning Gaelic because my Barbarian doesn't speak English right now. The other day, I saw someone I used to work with and he was showing off his cute new baby, and as I was leaving, I touched his upper arm and said goodbye and congratulations. Well, I know what's it's like having an infant but that man has time for the gym! (How?? Oh, his wife must be the tired one...) It was like touching a rock. Anything more than a touch and I'd have hurt myself. Naturally, the sensation was immediately followed by "I can use this for the Barbarian!" Yay!
posted by Carolyn @ 9/26/2002 09:19:00 PM Permalink
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