see? it isn't the end of the world.

[aamcnamara]

65 / 350

This progress is not all today; also, I got up to, I think, 61 pages before, and then deleted most of them, because it turned out I needed a different scene there.

I haven't been writing much on break so far, overall. Instead, I have been:
- seeing friends, notably mlt23, who I hadn't seen for ages; we hung out and she graciously gave me her paperback copy of To Say Nothing of the Dog, and it was Awesome;
- visiting museums;
- visiting the Providence Athenaeum, which is oh, so pretty;
- and, of course, reading books (the aforementioned To Say Nothing of the Dog, and I picked up a copy of Blackout which I have started to read).

The rest of the break, I suspect, will continue apace. With luck I'll get some more writing done, et cetera. This is my last day in the Boston area. It's been fun. If I end up here this summer, I definitely will enjoy exploring the city more--I have hardly scratched a corner of a fold of a surface of it.

Comments

[mlt23.livejournal.com]

Yay for Connie Willis!

I realized afterwards that we've only actually met in person three times now, I think.

[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

Huh. I had not thought of that, but you are right. Yay for the Internet.

[vcmw]

To Say Nothing of the Dog is indeed charming.
I was re-reading her short story Blued Moon the other night - I love her sort of slapstick-romantic-comedy-sf short stories.

[vcmw]

Wait, I meant screwball-romantic-comedy, not slapstick, sorry. No slapstick is generally involved. brain didn't work there for a minute.

[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

I think my favorites of hers are (as I was discussing with mlt23 the other day!) when she manages to be devastating and yet optimistic and funny--see my love for Doomsday Book--but of course not everything can be. I definitely enjoy things like To Say Nothing or Blued Moon, too, it's just a different experience.