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Summer's gone, winter's in your eyes...
Tuesday, October 05, 2004The subject kline's from one of my favorite songs, "See the Lights" by Simple Minds. And so it is. I've spent the last couple of weeks mowing the lawn, scything (yep, with a real sythe...all I need is a long black cape, and I can scare away the neihbors...should they ever be so foolish as to walk two miles to my house...) because the bigger, tougher weeds I didn't get before are too much for the weed eater string, washing cars, all that. I wish I could burn some brush, and get rid of the piles of it i made in my attempts to wrestle this place into some sort of shape. As a whole, i'm more productive in winter, so that should be ok. I'm typing in what I hand wrote of Palace of Bone, and you know, I shouldn't say this, but I'm actually enjoying it. I read a few things and wince and re-work it, but a few things, especially the conversations between Dr. "No first name that I allow anyone to call me" Ashton and Minerva "Hell yes why not>!" Corvae are hilarious. In a really good way. There's some checmistry...they're starting to work well together. I'm releived, because ever since I read in an intrveiw with Jude Deveraux that once she had to throw out a book because her characters argued all the time...not the sexy, good arguments that lead to love, but "I hate you, die" arguments, I was worried that perhaps they wouldn't be able to come to terms with each other. They are very different. Romance doesn't really matter, because they aren't going to do anything beyind have some tension, and learn to get along, in this novel, but it's good to see they will fall in love. I like love. It's important to me...I try not to make it a big part of the story, but I enjoy writing it. Not enough that I could ever be a romance writer (though my contract for Balancing Act has it listed as a paranormal romance...um...) but enough that developing it as a subplot makes me happy. Permalink Cindy scribed this at 9:26 PM 0 comments |