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Weekend Update Wakes Up
Oct. 28th, 2017 09:25 amSaturday morning and we don't have anything planned for the weekend other than errands and maybe the farmer's market tomorrow. Sometimes I have to remember that having nothing major planned on the weekend can be a good and relaxing thing!
Last night after work we went up to the Legion of Honor Museum (the one that's in our neighborhood) and checked out a couple of their recent exhibits (one featuring Klimt and Rodin, the other featuring painted recreations of Roman and Greek statues (as the current theory goes, many of them were actually painted, many quite garishly...and in an amusing twist of fate, some of the supremacist yahoos take offense to that idea).
Also last night, I've come ever closer to finishing Meet the Lidwells. WOOT! If I play my cards right, I may actually have it done this weekend! At present it's just over 80k words, which is about what I was aiming for. And once I'm done, I'll start up on the revision on that one, and also start up on the preparation for the Next Project.
Speaking of Next Project...I should probably come up with a decent title for it, at least a temporary one. Right now I'm referring to it as the Apartment Complex story or My Studio Ghibli story, but I should probably give it something a little more creative. Heh. I know I've been a bit quiet about this one, only giving out vague hints on what this one's about, and I may finally open up about that one once I start in on it. I'm being mum because I don't want to jinx it just yet! But soon, I'll let you all know a little more about it.
Related, as I'd mentioned briefly over at the WtBt blog, I decided I wanted to rename a few of the characters I'd come up with. I'm fine with that, because most times when I come up with character names, it's because they sound right, but not always because they mean anything. The issue here is that two of the main characters (a father and son) are of mixed race, but I haven't quite pinned down who they truly are, and I don't want to give them just any random non-English-sounding name, because that just ain't cool. I'll have to do some more thinking and research about it before I go too far. [For the record, there's no real reason they're mixed race other than that's how I pictured them when I came up with the story. I rarely start a project saying "I'll write about this type of person"; more often than not, I'll just go with what sounds right to me. Being inclusive in writing isn't about ticking races off a list to say 'there, they have a role now' but just being aware that the character palettes are a hell of a lot bigger and more diverse than you think.]
Okay...time to....do something, today? Shopping? Watch college football? :p
Last night after work we went up to the Legion of Honor Museum (the one that's in our neighborhood) and checked out a couple of their recent exhibits (one featuring Klimt and Rodin, the other featuring painted recreations of Roman and Greek statues (as the current theory goes, many of them were actually painted, many quite garishly...and in an amusing twist of fate, some of the supremacist yahoos take offense to that idea).
Also last night, I've come ever closer to finishing Meet the Lidwells. WOOT! If I play my cards right, I may actually have it done this weekend! At present it's just over 80k words, which is about what I was aiming for. And once I'm done, I'll start up on the revision on that one, and also start up on the preparation for the Next Project.
Speaking of Next Project...I should probably come up with a decent title for it, at least a temporary one. Right now I'm referring to it as the Apartment Complex story or My Studio Ghibli story, but I should probably give it something a little more creative. Heh. I know I've been a bit quiet about this one, only giving out vague hints on what this one's about, and I may finally open up about that one once I start in on it. I'm being mum because I don't want to jinx it just yet! But soon, I'll let you all know a little more about it.
Related, as I'd mentioned briefly over at the WtBt blog, I decided I wanted to rename a few of the characters I'd come up with. I'm fine with that, because most times when I come up with character names, it's because they sound right, but not always because they mean anything. The issue here is that two of the main characters (a father and son) are of mixed race, but I haven't quite pinned down who they truly are, and I don't want to give them just any random non-English-sounding name, because that just ain't cool. I'll have to do some more thinking and research about it before I go too far. [For the record, there's no real reason they're mixed race other than that's how I pictured them when I came up with the story. I rarely start a project saying "I'll write about this type of person"; more often than not, I'll just go with what sounds right to me. Being inclusive in writing isn't about ticking races off a list to say 'there, they have a role now' but just being aware that the character palettes are a hell of a lot bigger and more diverse than you think.]
Okay...time to....do something, today? Shopping? Watch college football? :p
