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Jun. 17th, 2012 01:12 pmThe article I was writing, the one that I was going to read so many books for and then the number diminished and then diminished again, is sort-of drafted at 2,000 words. I want to do a bunch of analysis, but 2,000 words is about long enough for what it is. Imagine if I had included all the books I had intended, plus the analysis I really want to do: it would have been 6,000 words. And fun. Much fun.
I'm going to leave it at that, though. I shall revise it later today and email it and that will mean I only need to do three more BiblioBuffet articles this week. Also, I can put six books away now. One day in my future they (and many more books) will be ripped off the shelves. For someone, someday, will want a 6,000 word article on naming systems in novels, and they will ask me politely and I will do all the analysis I want to do now and cannot. There's so much awesome stuff to be written about recent works and the choices they make (some of which are idiot and some of which add layers of meaning to the book and make it easier to navigate) and I have the right linguistic background to write that awesome stuff. One day.
In the meantime, I only have fourteen things and three thousand words on my to do list for today. Some of them are quite large, but it suddenly looks quite possible to finish them.
I'm going to leave it at that, though. I shall revise it later today and email it and that will mean I only need to do three more BiblioBuffet articles this week. Also, I can put six books away now. One day in my future they (and many more books) will be ripped off the shelves. For someone, someday, will want a 6,000 word article on naming systems in novels, and they will ask me politely and I will do all the analysis I want to do now and cannot. There's so much awesome stuff to be written about recent works and the choices they make (some of which are idiot and some of which add layers of meaning to the book and make it easier to navigate) and I have the right linguistic background to write that awesome stuff. One day.
In the meantime, I only have fourteen things and three thousand words on my to do list for today. Some of them are quite large, but it suddenly looks quite possible to finish them.