Well, I just spent another hour deleting spam comments… I hope that mt-blacklist thing gets modified to not require the perl module today… (he’s releasing another version today, but I somehow doubt he’s made that major a reconstruction.) I should just buckle down, and ask my host to install it, but I’m ashamed to admit that I don’t know how to do it myself. (I tried, I swear, but it just didn’t seem to work–I’m not sure what I did wrong.)
Novel writing began last night… he first day’s 1900 words are here: /novel/ I’m hoping that I’ll get more structured and focused as time goes on… I really had no idea what I was writing when I started. (And consequently, I thought the tone was much better, which seems common for me. When I sit down with something in mind, I end up writing pretty plain, but when I have nothing in mind, prose blooms flowery and more interesting.) I also changed the person about halfway through, (first to third) so there is a lot of editing to be done in there dealing with that.
I’ll work on consistency. I hadn’t exactly meant to write a novel about a space miner’s kid, but that’s what ended up coming out so far. Of course I didn’t know it at first, and the passages jump around quite a bit. Transitions? What transitions?
I’ve been thinking about plot all morning. I need to have one… I’m sure it’ll come to me eventually, but will it be too late when it does!?! Of course, it could just be one of those journeys of discovery sorts of things. (New working title: “Letters to a young space-pirate”???)
Yesterday Laura did some research on how you can tell… and we now think Zelda is a male cat. This is weirdly huge news. I mean, it doesn’t change who she–er, he–is, but it also somehow does. Plus, this turns their feisty play/licking into cat homoeroticism. (Or just brotherly love.)
Laura said my plot could be like that discovery. Maybe my main character will turn out to be female like some kind of weird Shakespearean plot twist, or maybe I’ll just figure out halfway through what I’m writing about, and everything will change as a consequence. Whatever happens, it doesn’t matter. Quantity over quality is what matters here, right? 50-thousand words, here I come.