About as organized and consistent as a tossed salad

The problem with writing very educated, learned characters is that you actually need to be very educated and learned yourself or at least go out and get a mini-education via wikipedia and a few smart friends. Especially if you need said characters to talk about very high brow things, even if it's in the back ground.


The current novel I'm working on is going at, like, lightspeed. This is because my job goes in boom and bust. Sometimes I'm so busy I can't breathe, sometimes I have nothing to do for days. During slow periods, I no longer go looking for work (they want me, they damn well know where my desk is), instead, I write.

And you'd be surprised how much writing you do when you have nothing else around you that's even remotely appealing to do. I can't even piddle on LiveJournal at work. So, it's just me and Google Docs and my intense desire to not be there.

Want to write a lot very fast? Go sit in a room with nothing in it but you, some paper, and a pen. You'll write like a frickin' jackrabbit. It might be crap, but it'll be the Speedy Gonzalez of crap.


This time around, I'm making my life easier. I'm doing a bit of editing as I go. I'm making notes in places that I know can but cut for length or places that I know, as I'm writing, that they're crap and need to be fixed but I'm not at all sure how to fix them right now and they just need to get *done*.

Hopefully it will make revision less painful and slow than it is with the Tower!Guy story, which is nearly stalled because I need a big block of uninterrupted free time to sit down with the story and I just don't have that right now.


I should do some more book reports soon. I've finished another batch of books and, well: My opinions. Let me show you them.