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I have a few things to talk about, nothing big (3200 words today! I don't even know how!), but first, I bring you: the Cloverfield monster, which I captured from the gloriously hi-res trailer. ( READ MOAR )

Monday night, sleepy

All I wanted to say about last night's entry--besides "thank you" for all the comments and well-wishes--is that I felt better after writing it. I usually do, and I think it helps me to articulate "I'm going to do this" and put it on paper (uh... e-paper?) and see it out there. It may not have sounded terribly optimistic, but it's cathartic writing about it, and I've found over the years that I'm far from the only person who goes through this kind of thing. People tell me it helps them to read about someone else going through this crap, and then I feel better because I'm not the only one going through this crap, and together, we all feel a little more normal. So that's why I do it from time to time.

And apparently I felt so much better that I ripped through 3200 words in about three hours today, wtf. (Chapter 7, woot woot!) Maybe it was the cathartic relief Mountain Dew? I will have another tomorrow. Although I did realize that the material as written gives away something I didn't want to give away until the next chapter, and there's pretty much no way around that, because it's now part of a chain reaction that causes that next chapter to happen. So. Uh. I'm just going to keep writing and leave it to my first readers--my mother, my agent, my best friends, whoever--to tell me if it works or not. I've also decided that from now until December 14 is simply for writing--filling in holes, making sure it's a complete, coherent narrative, all that, and if I have to say that Lady Something walked down Whatever Street, so help me, I'll do it, and I'll leave last-minute spot research (usually regarding exact geography) for the second half of the month. That seems fair, and it seems like a good way from preventing myself from getting bogged down in details. Also, a good bit of what I've asked for for Christmas and my birthday is books for research--some of them for this book, some of them for the second one (set in Paris). Also: if anyone knows of a good book about the 1889 Exposition Universelle--the Paris World's Fair--that's 1) on par with The Devil in the White City and 2) IN ENGLISH, I will love you forever.


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