September 2005

Katrina: The Gathering

I love this stuff.

Dear Kameron – STOP SPENDING MONEY. You have to get to World Fantasy in November and visit Stephanie & Ian in Ohio for Thanksgiving. THIS WILL INVOLVE MONEY, WHICH MEANS YOU NEED TO HAVE SOME. SO STOP SPENDING IT. Thank you. – me

Oh how I am glad it is Friday.

Finishing up the big round of edits, which is Pass 2. Pass 1 was just find-and-replace. Pass 2 is cutting and rearranging hunks of text to delete and compress characters. Pass 3 will be re-reading from start to finish for logical errors (wrong name, a mention of someone who doesn’t exist anymore, lingering scenes that

You can substitute another character’s name for theirs without changing the dialogue. heh.

Illinois state lottery’s up to $250 million. Our office is pooling resources and buying a bunch of tickets. Oh, why not?

I work as a project assistant for a company that builds, designs, and upgrades cell phone towers (I don’t know why everyone was so surprised when the towers went out in NOLA. Towers in Indiana are only enginneered to withstand 70 MPH winds. Every time a hurricane goes through Florida, we wait for a repair

Wouldn’t it be lovely?

Use Lohin, not Zhodai. Zhodai is a redundant character. And Lohin makes more sense. snip snip