Various post-weekend updates.: seanan

Various post-weekend updates.

(For purposes of this post, 'post-weekend' means 'Thursday night to now.')

Well, things continue to be hectic around here, which is exactly how I like them, so I really can't complain. Since Thursday, I have...

* Finished the initial revisions on Lycanthropy and Other Personal Issues. This was draft one-and-a-half, to let me fix all the continuity glitches and authorial stupid that had managed to creep in around the edges; now I'm ready to kick off draft two, during which I'll lose 10% of my hard-earned word count and hit all my characters repeatedly with a hammer. Because that's social. I'm feeling super-good about this book, and I love, love, love the fact that it's finally, blessedly finished.

* Purchased tickets to head for Seattle for my first pre-Conflikt rehearsal. Conflikt is the Pacific Northwest's own filk convention, and I'm going to be their Guest of Honor in 2009 (it's a January convention). I'm super-excited, but I'm also super-nervous. Rehearsal will make the nervousness become less while the excitement becomes more. It's a match made in heaven. Plus I get to hang out with all my awesome Seattle area friends, and that never fails to make me happy.

* Processed a bucketload of edits on Late Eclipses of the Sun, aka, 'Toby Daye book four,' aka, 'Seanan, if you just sold the first three, what the hell is wrong with you that you're working on the fourth one already?!' OCD cat is working marginally ahead of the curve, yo. OCD cat is also endlessly amazed by the editing process, because, well...I'm a pretty good author. I think I can say that without bragging, since, y'know, sold the trilogy and all. But give me a bunch of good proofreaders with machetes, and things become amazing. I'm watching this book just get better and better, and it's incredible.

* Finished the third chapter of The Mourning Edition, bringing me one step closer to world domination through zombies. I like world domination through zombies. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

* Entered about ten pages of data into my Toby Continuity Wiki, where it gleams in hyperlinked, clickable glory, thrilling my OCD heart to no end. It's gorgeous. I'm trying not to think about the part where it's the beginning of several hundred cumulative hours of work, because it really is going to make my life infinitely easier, and just dwell on the part where it's gorgeous.

* Started Discount Armageddon, book one of the Price series. Because I know you're gonna say it anyway, say it with me now: CHEESE! AND! CAKE! Also, ballroom dancing, snarky chameleon girls in fancy hotels, apartments sublet from Yeti, and La Parkour. It's good at be this kind of crazy.

My weekend was awesome. How was yours?

vaspider

August 25 2008, 21:19:48 UTC 8 years ago

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CHEESE! AND! CAKE!

(and any excuse to use my Iggy icon.)

seanan_mcguire

August 26 2008, 02:31:28 UTC 8 years ago

Hee.

yolandasfetsos

August 25 2008, 22:09:06 UTC 8 years ago

Sounds like you got some awesome progress over the weekend. :)

My weekend was great. I love weekends, especially when it's nice and sunny and the weather's getting better. I can't wait for spring... it's just around the corner.

Have a great week!

August 26 2008, 02:32:13 UTC 8 years ago

I'm praying the awesome progress continues.

See, here, autumn is just coming. I adore autumn. It's my favorite time of the year!

kyburg

August 25 2008, 22:34:11 UTC 8 years ago

Exhausting, but I wouldn't have changed a thing.

Disney this Halloween is doing Candy Corn instead of pumpkins. As in - biggest ever, ubiquitous, every where you'd expect a pumpkin...you get candy corn.

I'm of mixed feelings about this, naturally. Lack of pumpkin makes me sad...but candy corn...hmmmmm.

August 26 2008, 02:32:39 UTC 8 years ago

Yay for the weekend!

I am delighted to hear that the world is full of candy corn.

igneous_smurf

August 25 2008, 23:03:55 UTC 8 years ago

Wonderful, thanks for asking. We spent it in Edinburgh attending the various festivals! Enjoyable, but clearly nowhere near as productive as your weekend.

August 26 2008, 02:33:06 UTC 8 years ago

Productivity isn't for every day, or we'd run out of things to do!

August 26 2008, 10:05:10 UTC 8 years ago

I've seen all your to-do list posts; I doubt you could ever run out of things to do. How do you manage to get so much done? Do you ever sleep? ;)

August 26 2008, 14:12:38 UTC 8 years ago

I do sleep -- actually, I sleep more than almost anyone else I know. I just work very, very quickly when I'm conscious.

idancewithlife

August 26 2008, 01:03:14 UTC 8 years ago

Good weekend. Just curious. Would you be willing to share the name of the Wiki you are using? I'm still looking for a good one for various things.

August 26 2008, 02:33:38 UTC 8 years ago

Um. The Wiki I'm using is...called...um...'the Wiki that Chris set up for me.'

Hope that helps?

August 26 2008, 02:39:14 UTC 8 years ago

Thanks. Some of them are an online service you can subscribe to, or buy into (you probably knew that). Maybe Chris should market and sell his version. :-) I could use a good one as I start writing my thesis.

porpentine

August 26 2008, 03:54:08 UTC 8 years ago

Hehe. What I set up for her was an installation of MediaWiki (that which runs Wikipedia) set up on a flash drive via WOS (WebServer on a Stick). Basically, WOS sets up a little private webserver for you that's totally portable, and then the wiki's installed on that. WOS and all the software packages it installs are free, including MediaWiki.

...and actually, as I go peer, it looks like they've upgraded their site a bit. It's now MoWeS -- Modular Webserver System. You want the MoWeS Portable version in this case, with: Apache, PHP, MySQL, and MediaWiki. Once it's all installed, you just have to start one program up that launches everything that needs to be launched, and you have access to your wiki through localhost. No cost, can take it with you, no chance of anyone getting a peek at things you don't want them to see, not even a need for an internet connection to get it up and running.

http://www.chsoftware.net/en/useware/mowes/mowes.htm