With much determination, I embarked upon a regime of aggressive, preventative medication this morning: Sudafed, Aleve, caffeine, and sugar. Results: a qualified success. No headache, hurray! But I did a lot of restless twitching at my desk, and the muscle tic under my left eye has returned. Time for the magnesium supplements.
Writing Stuff:
Decided to re-read Ursula K. LeGuin’s Earthsea trilogy, prompted by all the shiny trailers of the mini-series coming up in December on the SciFi channel.
Managed 1000 new words on the fantasy. Rah! And I’m percolating an idea for another story. So far I’ve got a good setting, characters, and beginning, but I’m not sure where to go with it. Not sure if I should go ahead and start it on the hope that something will get jostled loose, or wait until a plot and theme coalesces. Ponder ponder. Also beginning to dwell on the science fiction story I set aside. Multi-tasking is me.
Did a Critters critique, which seems to be my default activity when I feel like I should be writing, but can’t seem to focus on putting words on the page anymore.
And finally received a response to my query to LCRW, over a month later. Quite frustrating and a trifle perplexing: “Sorry, I think this one was rejected. It’s not in our submission pile, so it must have gone back to you already.” They’re not sure they got it, but “think” they rejected it. That does not fill me with neon flashes of “oh boy, that was postage well spent!” Oh well, back out it goes.
Don’t forget the other Earthsea books too!
hey.. sounds like a good cocktail for headache prevention, I’ll have to try it 😉 I don’t mind twitching.. I do that already anyway. 😉 lol
hey eugie, i just tried to email eugie@eugiefoster.com and it was returned – do you have a different email address?
It was bounced? Eep! I wonder why. But yes, you can also email me at: eudjinnie(at)comcast.net.
(Obviously, replace the “(at)” with the requisite “@”.)
Now that it’s getting cold, I’ve been getting a lot of sinus headache in the morning. Um, not fun.
i just picked up the earthsea books a few months ago to start reading. i had never gotten around to them yet. and then i started seeing the trailers for the mini-series. now i am in a rush to read them before the series comes out. 🙂
want to place any bets on whether they will mess it up or do a good job?
1000 words
I forgot. Will you be participating in NaNoWriMo (www.nanowritmo.org)? Not as though you need a boost… 🙂
Joel
Re: 1000 words
Nope. I don’t think I write the way NaNoWriMo works. I already crank out as much wordage as I can. I don’t think an arbitrary deadline is going to help me much.