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This is my first post at Posterous.

If this works, it should show up at Blogger too.

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My update for Kaz’s Summer Camp, Week #2:

I edited about 6k in from a previous draft and wrote about 3700 words too.

I'm a lot closer to the end then I thought I was.

Tonight's the big move. Eek.

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Yes, I am leaving Life in the Cold and the Wet behind.

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A snippet in honor of above:

She sat up, reached over, and hit him. Hard.

“What do you want?” he growled into the pillow.

“Sex. Conversation. The naked man next to me transforming back into my doting husband. Just to name a few things.”

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1.

This is my first post at Posterous.

If this works, it should show up at Blogger too.

2.

My update for Kaz’s Summer Camp, Week #2:

I edited about 6k in from a previous draft and wrote about 3700 words too.

I'm a lot closer to the end then I thought I was.

Tonight's the big move. Eek.

3.

Yes, I am leaving Life in the Cold and the Wet behind.

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A snippet in honor of above:

She sat up, reached over, and hit him. Hard.

“What do you want?” he growled into the pillow.

“Sex. Conversation. The naked man next to me transforming back into my doting husband. Just to name a few things.”

Posted via web from The Eternity Project

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Thinking of getting this blog done up right. Talking to Parajunkee Designs. If you have any other suggestions, please do let me know.

Incidentally, I am now at Posterous.

There will be different content over there for the foreseeable future.

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I'm writing about 2 pages -- about 500 words a day. Since the start of May, which means a nice 7k or so.

The next few days will be slow. I'm writing a rousing declaration of war. Note to self: Bush II must have made some speeches about the War on Terror, and I must study them to see what he did right/wrong at some point. Probably should consider Churchill and a few others too.

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I'm playing EchoBazaar. Possibly the greatest waste of time on Earth, but I need to sorta disappear from a few places online and therefore I need a new obsession.

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I am still on the wrong continent.

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Hurricane Forever is also still on the wrong continent. I thought my sooperwoman would already be in her new home by now. Bah.

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I started Northern Expression's Celtic Leaves. Such a lovely piece.

But I desperately need to either stop talking about my needlework on this blog, or to somehow reconcile this identity with my other online identity.

The latter would be preferable, but I am also certain that it is a problem to which there is no solution.

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I think my Monday posts are going on temporary hiatus until I get my act together to start blogging again. It makes me feel very lazy, but hey, I am very lazy.

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I rather think I've been neglecting this blog for too long.

But I did try to return to the UK, got stuck in Dubai and decided to return to Singapore, so I do sort of have an excuse.

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Dubai is an inspiration.

It is what I imagine a charter city that's run out of money would look like.

Certainly, it does not meet the definition of a charter city. But the point of a charter city is that build it, and they will come.

They came, they saw, they left.

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I ran into a stop for most of the last week.

But it's kick-started again.

The first time in my life that my synopsis has actually helped me.

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Working on Hurricane Forever. It is going wonderfully well.

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No 'actual' post today because I'm a nitwit, and I'm a nitwit who is extremely busy.

I did try. But I think anything I put up would be worse than last week's Monday post, which was generally a waste of time altogether.

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I do need to start something for this month, however, and I really ought to do it soon.

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The novel formerly known as TLOL is now officially Hurricane Forever.

Because I think I'm funny.

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Thinking about allegories in my work.

They never used to exist, but now I see them left and right.

I think that will probably be the topic of my next Monday post. This week's one was pretty crappy and I apologize for that.

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Hurricane Forever is going surprisingly well. My current process (well, my current planned process anyway) is to write the novel and add comments to the synopsis as I go along to fix things.

So far so good.

Previously, all the clay was just random lumps. This time it's like I put the clay into the mold, popped it out, and am now reshaping it a bit.

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This post is brought to you by ScribeFire for Firefox. As opposed to Windows Live Writer.

I do miss the many keyboard shortcuts that WLW had though. Like Ctrl+Shift+C to open up categories, and the ability to have it remember links, so when I mention Nadia, for instance, it'll link to her website automatically.

Especially since most of them don't work.

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In my attempts to procrastinate all things synopsis/studying, I have switched my choice of browsers from Chrome to Firefox and have decided to delete Opera completely from my laptop's consciousness.

This is followed by me jazzing it up, with Echofon -- I really want something that has Reply All and immediate shortening of URL and ability to change views with a keyboard shortcut -- and Scribefire, to be followed by something for an RSS Aggregator and something I can use for Gmail when I can't connect with Outlook.

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I'm also currently contemplating putting an end to my attempts to finish my synopsis as it is clearly going nowhere.

But I think I'm going to see whether I can dig up one of those list things for the Three Act Structure, which asks you stuff like inciting event, climax, etc.

This I'll input into Excel, with each of those items on the left column, and Acts I, II and III across. Because in every Act, those items ought to link up somehow.

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I tend to blog a lot on Sundays. Hmm…

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I’m unwriting again. Bah.

But I did read over what I have today, and I see that I’ve begun the slow process of jargonizing TLOL.

Jargonizing probably isn’t a good term for it. More along the lines of my worldbuilding is beginning to actually appear inside what I’ve already written.

Kinda, I think it is beginning to be recognizable as the world that exists in my head.

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I am working on Nadia’s wedding sampler again.

I did finish The Charleston. I’ll put up a picture of that at some point. Probably means when I get back to Singapore later this month.

I need to contemplate what I’ll be starting in May, June and July. The Year of Starts! Whoot!

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I should probably post about my trip to the Macclesfield Silk Museum yesterday, but somehow, I just can’t be bothered.

I’ll try to post something more substantial than my metrics at least once a week.

Tentatively, I’m going to schedule something for every Monday, and then we’ll see.

Blogging

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This isn’t the first blog I’ve had. Not even close. Off the top of my head, I can think of at least three previous ones.

Two I kept for a good long while, with regular updates. One must have had over a thousand posts over its several-year lifespan. Maybe even two thousand. I suspect that I can check because I don’t think my attempts to delete them were successful.

But some things are best left dead in the water and hopefully decomposing into nothingness

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For most of my blogging life, I have had more than one blog a time. Sometimes because I contributed elsewhere, but mostly because I wished to keep my book blog and my writing blog separate.

To be honest, I don’t know why I wanted the separation. I did think it was better for my audience, such as it were.

But it was hard, especially towards the end.

I am a writer first, and a reader second. The fact that I am a writer too has changed the way I read.

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Which brings me to this: consolidation.

I don’t have the time for more than one blog. But at the same time, I do want a blog.

I like that I have a platform to say whatever it is I want to say, and I am arrogant enough to think that what I have to say is worth reading. It is, naturally, your prerogative to disagree – in which case, I do have to ask, why are you reading this?

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Especially since this blog is more about and for me than any of the previous ones I have had in the past. Which isn’t to say that I don’t welcome comments, because I do, but simply to say that this blog is focused on me.

As I told a sooper-dooper writing pal in an email today, this blog is my mental space for Emily Cardinal*, and Emily Cardinal is this person who’s writing this novel without a title** about reincarnation, obsession, and how the world will/could/should/might/should not change in allegory.

*In case you did not realise, I am not Emily Cardinal in my day-to-day life.

**I am waiting for inspiration to strike so that I can change the tag from TLOL to something else. And no, it does not stand for The LOL. Well, it does, but not in the Laugh Out Loud kind of way.

Minima

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I wouldn’t say that I had a fetish for minimalism, though I do prefer simplicity, clean lines and elegance over baroque, over-the-top chaos.

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I’m using Blogger rather than something else because I had to have this template – I think I still prefer WordPress, but WP’s interface…

True, I could probably have found a substitute, but in this case, Minima refers to minimal work involved.

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My words stand for themselves.

In Minima, there is nothing to draw your eye away from my words.

It’s not to say that they wouldn’t if I had a fancier template, but I think the simplicity of this one makes a statement by itself.