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Oct. 8th, 2011 07:19 pmI am safely through the Fast. I am now allowed to be officially cheerful again. I'm also allowed to wend my way through lists and wonder why work never finishes and why everything comes out awry. Also, why there's nothing decent on TV at the odd times I can actually watch it.
I've started listing deadlines and can't think of nearly enough to list. If anyone wants me to meet a deadline, tell me what it is and I'll list it and we'll see what happens. So far my best bet is persuading Cat (whom I shall be visiting down the coast soon, for those who are worried about my persistent illness - going to the sea for wellness is *such* a Victorian thing to do, but I was born and brought up in Victoria, so it is appropriate) that she needs a honey cake and that I need to make it. Most of my deadlines are things like course proposals and chapters of dissertation and reducing piles of paper that have somehow accumulated again. Honey cake is far more exciting.
Speaking of excitement, I have 1000 words less to write on my dissertation than I thought. This is because those words were hiding in Ch 4 and really belong in Ch 5 and Ch 4 was too long and not lucid. It's still not lucid, but it's no longer too long. I'm wondering if I cut and shift text from one novel to another whether this will count as High Literary Writing and make me my reputation as deep and dire and controversial. I'm tempted to do it tonight, just because I can. I want to see if my beta readers notice...
I've started listing deadlines and can't think of nearly enough to list. If anyone wants me to meet a deadline, tell me what it is and I'll list it and we'll see what happens. So far my best bet is persuading Cat (whom I shall be visiting down the coast soon, for those who are worried about my persistent illness - going to the sea for wellness is *such* a Victorian thing to do, but I was born and brought up in Victoria, so it is appropriate) that she needs a honey cake and that I need to make it. Most of my deadlines are things like course proposals and chapters of dissertation and reducing piles of paper that have somehow accumulated again. Honey cake is far more exciting.
Speaking of excitement, I have 1000 words less to write on my dissertation than I thought. This is because those words were hiding in Ch 4 and really belong in Ch 5 and Ch 4 was too long and not lucid. It's still not lucid, but it's no longer too long. I'm wondering if I cut and shift text from one novel to another whether this will count as High Literary Writing and make me my reputation as deep and dire and controversial. I'm tempted to do it tonight, just because I can. I want to see if my beta readers notice...