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Mar. 9th, 2004 03:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanaiseThe cat stole my hair band while I was taking a bath and went fishing with it. He's a fluffy little moron. He even tried to use me as an island to get the band when it was on the wrong side of the tub.
I was thinking about Company Man today, because I know I messed it up on some deep intrinsic level, and I'll be bitten by a kitten if I can figure out where. So far it's just the vague, mostly useless musing. "What if Diccon was her uncle, not her grand-uncle? What if he was adopted? What if he's her grand-uncle, but her mom's really her grandmother?" THat one has the most potential. It makes her 'mom' old enough to be a proper mayor, not some 32 yr-old single mom. And thus plays some havoc with her relationship to Dix. Oh, and I had been thinking of making her mother the leader of the Company, and if I do it this way, it would actually work--I'll have to put it in my hmmmm pile for now.
Oh, and I renamed Requiem because it fit well enough, but it's sort of a blah title, especially for a short story. So I'm calling it "Spirits in the Wood," which is more evocative and less vague, and also gives a story hint that I don't think is actually addressed in the story unless I fixed it in the last draft. Can't remember.
I also have a story brewing again, thanks in part to the *awful* romance I'm trying valiently to finish. I don't know why, it's not like I'm going to be surprised at the end (Oh my god! He loves her? And she loves him? And the babies are too cute? I would never have guessed!). I think maybe it's a principle kind of thing. wasting money and all that, never mind it was essentially free as I traded in a stack of paperbacks for credit and picked out a handful of bad books just to use it up. Anyways, it's a selkie romance (better than the druid ones is all I can say) and it made Greylady and the sequel I started writing and a few other chunks that never made it into Feeling Driftwood all start moving around asking for attention. So I should open them up and try and find my plot. Or at least a place to start a plot, and I'll make it up from there on out.
So I should remember to think about them tomorrow, and I need to start actually making Boston plans, and figuring out when I want to leave and how everything will work and what I will do when I get there. I'm hoping a temp agency to start out with, and honestly, if I could find a graphic design type temp agency up there like they had in DC, I could probably be happy as a temp for a while. That was pretty much what our division did. And if I got temp work, then I could look for a place to stay with the knowledge that even if it wasn't a real job, at least I'd have an income. wheee! money! Oh, and I need a haircut, as my ends are tangling much too much lately. I should call about an appointment tomorrow, though I'll need to get a ride for it, if they've even got anything for me, since it's going to be too cold to walk, I think.
But for now, bed.
I was thinking about Company Man today, because I know I messed it up on some deep intrinsic level, and I'll be bitten by a kitten if I can figure out where. So far it's just the vague, mostly useless musing. "What if Diccon was her uncle, not her grand-uncle? What if he was adopted? What if he's her grand-uncle, but her mom's really her grandmother?" THat one has the most potential. It makes her 'mom' old enough to be a proper mayor, not some 32 yr-old single mom. And thus plays some havoc with her relationship to Dix. Oh, and I had been thinking of making her mother the leader of the Company, and if I do it this way, it would actually work--I'll have to put it in my hmmmm pile for now.
Oh, and I renamed Requiem because it fit well enough, but it's sort of a blah title, especially for a short story. So I'm calling it "Spirits in the Wood," which is more evocative and less vague, and also gives a story hint that I don't think is actually addressed in the story unless I fixed it in the last draft. Can't remember.
I also have a story brewing again, thanks in part to the *awful* romance I'm trying valiently to finish. I don't know why, it's not like I'm going to be surprised at the end (Oh my god! He loves her? And she loves him? And the babies are too cute? I would never have guessed!). I think maybe it's a principle kind of thing. wasting money and all that, never mind it was essentially free as I traded in a stack of paperbacks for credit and picked out a handful of bad books just to use it up. Anyways, it's a selkie romance (better than the druid ones is all I can say) and it made Greylady and the sequel I started writing and a few other chunks that never made it into Feeling Driftwood all start moving around asking for attention. So I should open them up and try and find my plot. Or at least a place to start a plot, and I'll make it up from there on out.
So I should remember to think about them tomorrow, and I need to start actually making Boston plans, and figuring out when I want to leave and how everything will work and what I will do when I get there. I'm hoping a temp agency to start out with, and honestly, if I could find a graphic design type temp agency up there like they had in DC, I could probably be happy as a temp for a while. That was pretty much what our division did. And if I got temp work, then I could look for a place to stay with the knowledge that even if it wasn't a real job, at least I'd have an income. wheee! money! Oh, and I need a haircut, as my ends are tangling much too much lately. I should call about an appointment tomorrow, though I'll need to get a ride for it, if they've even got anything for me, since it's going to be too cold to walk, I think.
But for now, bed.
