the one she didn't want to know the answer to

[aamcnamara]

Not a con report, although Fourth Street is lovely so far.

(Except for the part where I took a wrong turn on the bike path and ended up going a few miles out of my way. But, you know, these things happen, and technically that was before I got to the con.)

What this post actually is: Hooray for finishing things! I have a first draft (2800 words) of a story I am currently calling "The Bodies of Erinyes". (It's the far-future SF ancient-Greece one.) Unlike possibly any story I have written before, I outlined this first, created documents in Scrivener for all the scenes in the outline, and then went through and wrote each of them, not necessarily working on them in order. A couple of scenes have been combined, but mostly it's just as I outlined it. Likely this will change (drastically) in revisions, but it's interesting to watch my own writing process change.

This means that I'll have headspace for whatever new story ideas Fourth Street stuffs into my head. (So far, I've mostly got revision ideas for this one, but that's okay too.)

Also, on the novel:

218 / 350

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Good for you!

[aedifica]

Last year I biked to Fourth Street and planned my route badly, so there ended up being a fence where I wanted to go and I had to go a few miles out of my way to get around the fence. So maybe it's tradition now, that someone will do it each year? (On second thought, maybe that's a tradition I'd prefer not to have.)

[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

I would also prefer not to have this tradition! I mean, I know how to get there now, but I wouldn't wish that on anyone else.