ARGH

This has no right to be so annoying.

You know, just when, ten months into the novel, I start thinking that it will be okay, my damn LOGIC kicks in and informs me that really none of it makes ANY SENSE AT ALL.

Thank GOD for Physics. In another year I should actually be able to manage the SCIENCE in science fiction.

At least the story comes with a built-in failsafe: "Oh, it doesn't make sense? No, see, you've got it wrong, it was the spies all along..."

By the way, I've got a doomsday weapon that looks like a toaster. Fear me.

My Day by the Numbers

Hours overslept - 2

New entries on LJ when woke up - 24

Hours playing Sims - 0 (v. good!)

Boxes of cheese curds eaten - 2

People contacted about printing chapters - 1 (is out of town. Bad Hannah.)

Days left until deadline - 12 (!!!)

Words written - 0 (v. v. bad)

Cost of attending Noreascon - $180

Plane ticket to Boston and back - In excess of $200

Bank balance - $468.19

Panic level - dark red (is not a number. V. bad.)

CDs that were returned - 3

Dinosaurs in dream - 2

Times ventured into great outdoors - 1

Stargate episodes watched since obsession began - 46

Lists made - 0

Super secret spider powers - dormant

...

The Boy has decided to start paying attention to my LJ. Silly Boy. What's the point in commenting when we can just shout?

BOY: Hours spent playing the Sims: 0. (pokes head into bedroom) AHA! You're playing right now!
NAE: Don't look at me like that! (mutters something about needing friends)

But I've torn myself away from the Sims, I have more than an hour left until Stargate, and so I am now going to head off to write. Really, this time.

Beta reading and alpha writing

I love to beta-read. It's one of my favorite things to do. I rejoice every time one of my alphas sends me a new chapter. Also, I'm one of the few people to have read Diagon Burning, since it's not up yet, and you know a story is good when it's making me believe in Harry/Ginny.

The thing is, though, that even though my almost-OTP is H/D, I can't make myself beta any of those, and I only read them when they're recced to me by someone I trust. I guess it's because I just can't see how H/D can work without a lot of build up to a relationship, and I'd rather not spend the beta-ing experience wincing at OOCness.

Speaking of OOCness! It's a silly thing, but it seriously bothers me when someone informs me that my original characters are acting "out of character." Because, um, they're mine. I know them, I know how they'd act, and thus they cannot be "OOC." They can be inconsistent, yes, but that's because they are people and people are often inconsistent, but they always have some kind of reason for it. Strange but true. And as they are my characters and it is my canon, OOC is not a proper term for their inconsistent behavior, which is not, actually, inconsistent.

Lyra, when do I get my chapters from you? We wants them, preciousss.

Um, and I have a bit of a problem with pacing, as I have just realized that next part of the story basically goes: Zacharias kidnapped - Zacharias returns - ALMOST IMMEDIATELY Zacharias is kidnapped again. And TORTURED. And also Joseph and Lasa get their angst on. And then there is FIRE and MURDER and lots of people DIE and then Zacharias is tortured again. Broadly speaking.

So much angst in such a short time. I need to find some kind of happy place for them to go just to lighten up a little before everything goes to hell in a handbasket.

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Am v. v. bad. Have caved, and read UU part 20 before finishing my chapter eight. Admittedly am 500 words from the end, and have solved part of the pacing problem, but still.

Have also lost subject pronouns. No idea where they have gone to.

Watched Stargate. OMG SQUEE SAM'S NON-REG HAIRCUT. OMG SQUEE FIFTH. OMG am such a fangirl tonight.

Absolute Power is due to air on Monday. Am v. v. much in love with Evil!Daniel. Must stop reading diary fic, as it removes my ability to type out the word very.

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MAY 4 2007

SPIDER-MAN 3 IS EXPECTED TO HIT THEATERS

ON MAY 4

IN 2007

AH, OH MY GOD, I'M GOING TO BE IN COLLEGE

OH MY GOD WHERE HAS THE TIME GONE?

How much have I posted today?

This is the sixth time.

Huh.

I think the lack of school is doing something to my mind. I never used to post this often.