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aamcnamaraElements for an excellent day:
- beautiful weather
- reading books (that might not be the greatest book you've ever read, and you might keep comparing it disfavorably with something else, but it's okay, I mean, you're still going to finish it)
- time to work on your novel
- hanging out with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
1crowdedhour
- sitting out by the lake on the dock, barefoot, thinking about how to revise your last novel
Mix well. Most of these, I admit, could or do happen most days of this summer--except for hanging out with1crowdedhour, which hadn't happened before and which rocked and which (I believe) should happen again.
Unfortunately for the last item on the list, I believe the next stage of the Novel Revision Plan might involve notecards. Which I own--once when I had a brief animation craze I asked for a whole bunch of notecards and a lightbox for my birthday, and I've hardly ever used any of them, so this aspect of the Plan might just be "I should really use some of those sometime"--but they're at the house I won't be at until a couple of days from now. So.
(Also I'm not really completely certain that the way I started thinking about last summer's novel is the best way to revise it. And "As Large as Alone" is still out, and I really want to have my copies of the Oresteia and Medea to hand when I'm revising "The Bodies of Erinyes", and you know what, I need another writing project.)
Flipping through a book catalog this evening, I stopped at a book called "The Tests of Time: Readings in the Development of Physical Theory". It's the discoveries of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Faraday, Maxwell, Einstein, Bohr, and Hubble in their own words--but when I glanced at I thought that it was going to be their discoveries retold in each other's styles. So, quantum theory told as Galileo would have understood it, or big bang theory as Copernicus might have written it up... I kind of wish that book existed.
- beautiful weather
- reading books (that might not be the greatest book you've ever read, and you might keep comparing it disfavorably with something else, but it's okay, I mean, you're still going to finish it)
- time to work on your novel
- hanging out with
1crowdedhour- sitting out by the lake on the dock, barefoot, thinking about how to revise your last novel
Mix well. Most of these, I admit, could or do happen most days of this summer--except for hanging out with
1crowdedhour, which hadn't happened before and which rocked and which (I believe) should happen again.Unfortunately for the last item on the list, I believe the next stage of the Novel Revision Plan might involve notecards. Which I own--once when I had a brief animation craze I asked for a whole bunch of notecards and a lightbox for my birthday, and I've hardly ever used any of them, so this aspect of the Plan might just be "I should really use some of those sometime"--but they're at the house I won't be at until a couple of days from now. So.
(Also I'm not really completely certain that the way I started thinking about last summer's novel is the best way to revise it. And "As Large as Alone" is still out, and I really want to have my copies of the Oresteia and Medea to hand when I'm revising "The Bodies of Erinyes", and you know what, I need another writing project.)
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Flipping through a book catalog this evening, I stopped at a book called "The Tests of Time: Readings in the Development of Physical Theory". It's the discoveries of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Faraday, Maxwell, Einstein, Bohr, and Hubble in their own words--but when I glanced at I thought that it was going to be their discoveries retold in each other's styles. So, quantum theory told as Galileo would have understood it, or big bang theory as Copernicus might have written it up... I kind of wish that book existed.
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Date: 2010-07-01 03:54 am (UTC)I think you might like a book by Paul Collins -- his first, which I haven't read but is on my list: Barnvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales Of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity, And Rotten Luck.
If you try it before I do, let me know what you think, please!
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Date: 2010-07-01 03:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-01 12:18 pm (UTC)(One nice thing about working/volunteering at the library this summer is regularly-scheduled library visits, so I have no excuse either to not check out books or to accumulate fines on them. I never take more than three weeks to read a book... I just usually forget to take it back afterwards.)
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Date: 2010-07-02 01:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-02 08:15 pm (UTC)no subject
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