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Alex's birthday!
Mar. 5th, 2021 09:38 pmIt was a pretty good day. :)
Alex ended up bailing on riding, because his hip was hurting pretty badly this morning. (Getting old, apparently.) We spent pretty much the whole day shopping so he could pick out stuff for his birthday. (I genuinely did not have my shit together enough in advance to get things bought and delivered and wrapped...) Mostly he got hobby stuff, which I think he's happy with.
We also grabbed late lunch (fish and chips from On The Hook, a food truck that roams around.) And we bought a tira misu cake. Another thing that I probably should have tried to get my shit together enough to do, but... Cake is not my strong suit when baking.
I am Really Tired, though the day wasn't especially strenuous.
Gonna try and read a bit more of All Strange Wonders, taking notes on what I want to do for the first draft before I go to bed.
Honestly, I'm kind of using this also to... figure out my process for second drafts? I've done rewrites before, but generally oneshots. Or, like with Potentials, I rewrote early chapters once I'd figured out where I wanted things to go, but my posting cushion ran out, so the later chapters just got an editing pass, rather than a true rewrite.
This is the first time I've written a complete first draft of something close to novel-length (about 70k words), and then had the chance to actually rewrite the whole damn thing. I'm flying a little bit blind, seeing if this works process-wise. Hopefully it does!
Alex ended up bailing on riding, because his hip was hurting pretty badly this morning. (Getting old, apparently.) We spent pretty much the whole day shopping so he could pick out stuff for his birthday. (I genuinely did not have my shit together enough in advance to get things bought and delivered and wrapped...) Mostly he got hobby stuff, which I think he's happy with.
We also grabbed late lunch (fish and chips from On The Hook, a food truck that roams around.) And we bought a tira misu cake. Another thing that I probably should have tried to get my shit together enough to do, but... Cake is not my strong suit when baking.
I am Really Tired, though the day wasn't especially strenuous.
Gonna try and read a bit more of All Strange Wonders, taking notes on what I want to do for the first draft before I go to bed.
Honestly, I'm kind of using this also to... figure out my process for second drafts? I've done rewrites before, but generally oneshots. Or, like with Potentials, I rewrote early chapters once I'd figured out where I wanted things to go, but my posting cushion ran out, so the later chapters just got an editing pass, rather than a true rewrite.
This is the first time I've written a complete first draft of something close to novel-length (about 70k words), and then had the chance to actually rewrite the whole damn thing. I'm flying a little bit blind, seeing if this works process-wise. Hopefully it does!
