almost there
Dec. 22nd, 2006 06:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmegaeraThe crane quilt is bound and washed, and I have maybe a couple of hours work left on it -- filling in some quilting in the bottom corners, which I couldn't do until I washed out the original quilt pattern markings on it because I goofed when I marked it. I am at the stage right now where if I never see this thing again it will be too soon, but I *always* feel that way at this stage of a quilt, even if it's a bit more so with this one because of the deadline. I've only been hand quilting it since the middle of September, after all.
The synopsis is in rough draft form and my beta reader has it -- I probably won't have it back before xmas, which is a good thing, taken all in all. It's about 22 doublespaced pages in its present form, which I don't think is *too* bad given that it's 180,000 or so words. I will be doing a one-page much more condensed version as well, gods help me. But I *am* going to start querying in January if it's the last thing I do. And starting volume two. Dorothy, Charley's daughter-in-law-to-be, is already starting to mutter, and I can't wait to start listening.
I had a lovely solitary Solstice celebration last night. Ever since I moved here, which is much farther north than anywhere else I've ever lived (okay, Canadians, quit laughing now [g]), getting to the Winter Solstice takes so *long.* It's like okay, we're getting there, we're getting there, and *now* we've finally turned the corner. Now the days are now officially getting longer. So what if it won't be noticeable for another month. We're *there.*
Tomorrow I am going to quilt, and bake sugar cookies, and Sunday I am going over to Loralee's for dinner and to give her the quilt. And on xmas Day I am going to drive over to the coast and watch the waves roll in. It's been too long since I've seen the ocean. And the weather looks like it's going to cooperate.
Happy Yuletide!
One more thing I want to say. Earlier this week we had a lot of discussion going on on the Bujold list. So what else is new? Well, I actually jumped into the fray and said a few things. And got listened to, which was lovely. I wish we could have carried the discussion through much farther than we did, because I feel rather like Ekaterin when she was shortcircuiting her arguments with Tien. Which apparently made her feel like they were doomed to repeat the exercise over and over and over. I do feel like we got farther than we ever have before, but still not far enough. Still, there was some progress.
The other thing is, though, I find myself censoring myself even here because I know there are listees who have friended me who would take what I really want to say the wrong way and I'm not sure -- well, I'm pretty sure I *don't* want their feedback on the things I want to say. How do people deal with that sort of thing here? Not necessarily technically (I know I can disable comments, but I don't think that's what I want to do, either), but just in general. I really feel the need to say what I'm censoring, but I know I'm not up to dealing with the fallout. Because in general, I'm lousy at defending myself.
Anyway.
I hope everyone has a great holiday, no matter what you celebrate. Here's to a new year full of fruitful communication, both written and out loud.
The synopsis is in rough draft form and my beta reader has it -- I probably won't have it back before xmas, which is a good thing, taken all in all. It's about 22 doublespaced pages in its present form, which I don't think is *too* bad given that it's 180,000 or so words. I will be doing a one-page much more condensed version as well, gods help me. But I *am* going to start querying in January if it's the last thing I do. And starting volume two. Dorothy, Charley's daughter-in-law-to-be, is already starting to mutter, and I can't wait to start listening.
I had a lovely solitary Solstice celebration last night. Ever since I moved here, which is much farther north than anywhere else I've ever lived (okay, Canadians, quit laughing now [g]), getting to the Winter Solstice takes so *long.* It's like okay, we're getting there, we're getting there, and *now* we've finally turned the corner. Now the days are now officially getting longer. So what if it won't be noticeable for another month. We're *there.*
Tomorrow I am going to quilt, and bake sugar cookies, and Sunday I am going over to Loralee's for dinner and to give her the quilt. And on xmas Day I am going to drive over to the coast and watch the waves roll in. It's been too long since I've seen the ocean. And the weather looks like it's going to cooperate.
Happy Yuletide!
One more thing I want to say. Earlier this week we had a lot of discussion going on on the Bujold list. So what else is new? Well, I actually jumped into the fray and said a few things. And got listened to, which was lovely. I wish we could have carried the discussion through much farther than we did, because I feel rather like Ekaterin when she was shortcircuiting her arguments with Tien. Which apparently made her feel like they were doomed to repeat the exercise over and over and over. I do feel like we got farther than we ever have before, but still not far enough. Still, there was some progress.
The other thing is, though, I find myself censoring myself even here because I know there are listees who have friended me who would take what I really want to say the wrong way and I'm not sure -- well, I'm pretty sure I *don't* want their feedback on the things I want to say. How do people deal with that sort of thing here? Not necessarily technically (I know I can disable comments, but I don't think that's what I want to do, either), but just in general. I really feel the need to say what I'm censoring, but I know I'm not up to dealing with the fallout. Because in general, I'm lousy at defending myself.
Anyway.
I hope everyone has a great holiday, no matter what you celebrate. Here's to a new year full of fruitful communication, both written and out loud.
