What I've been up to for this week
Jun. 15th, 2013 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catherineldfWe can haz new car! We picked up the new fire engine red Honda Fit on Thursday night and said goodbye to Jana's aging pickup truck. The transition will take a bit of getting used to, I suspect, but I think it will be good in the long run.
Other things are still in flux but house refinancing is moving onward, I think, so yay on that.
I'm trying to switch from being a fairly pure pantser to being a writer who does general outlines, which has been interesting. So far this week, I identified a bunch of things that wanted changing in one of the novels in progress. Would I have gotten to many of them with my usual make up as I go along method? Probably, but this certainly has potential to move things along faster. I've also picked up a fun new book for blurbing, about more later, and I need to get a new story out the door for a July 1 deadline.
In what passes for the rest of my life, I heartily recommend Theater Pro Rata's life of Emilie Du Chatelet (see link).
Now it's off to errands, and perhaps La Boheme at Lake Harriet if I'm feeling better, since it is a "my body hates me" sort of a day.
Other things are still in flux but house refinancing is moving onward, I think, so yay on that.
I'm trying to switch from being a fairly pure pantser to being a writer who does general outlines, which has been interesting. So far this week, I identified a bunch of things that wanted changing in one of the novels in progress. Would I have gotten to many of them with my usual make up as I go along method? Probably, but this certainly has potential to move things along faster. I've also picked up a fun new book for blurbing, about more later, and I need to get a new story out the door for a July 1 deadline.
In what passes for the rest of my life, I heartily recommend Theater Pro Rata's life of Emilie Du Chatelet (see link).
Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight
It is a play written and directed by women which provides a complex portrait of a female genius and there aren't a lot of those around. It's a strong, feminist work that doesn't sugercoat its characters, and it made me want to read her work (and theoretical physics is not generally my thing). Highly recommended! After you've seen it, read David Bodanis' excellent book Passionate Minds about her, her science and math achievements and her relationship with Voltaire.Now it's off to errands, and perhaps La Boheme at Lake Harriet if I'm feeling better, since it is a "my body hates me" sort of a day.