Update

[stillsostrange]

Exercise -- 20 minutes of dancing. (New Order-Confusion Pump Panel reconstruction, Das Ich-Uterus, and Shriekback-Accretions) That's high-impact goth dancing; I broke a sweat and got a stitch in my side. Weights yesterday, 3000 lbs.

Words -- 500-something on Dreams. Yet another scene where the prose is tolerable, but I realize half-way through that Liz is totally not paying attention to anything I'm writing. Bitch. I'll try to cosset and coddle her and get her to talk again tomorrow.

Also, 233 words on the side with Isyllt, who popped up with a scene. It's the start of a book. Thankfully, I don't know where it goes yet. I want to turn the Isyllt book into the elf book, but I'm trying to make it work. Maybe I will just write it with pointy-eared people and see if readers squick.

Comments

[ultharkitty.livejournal.com]

Isyllt's such a great name, what inspired it?

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

The short answer is: I like Germanic and Norse names.

The longer version is: once upon a time in high school I started a very bad book about teenagers travelling to another world, and the main character's name was Elizabeth. I started over in college and got rid of the world-travelling bits, so her name became Isolde (because they lived in Generic European Land). The book was still very bad. A few years later I started it over again; the world became less generically Celtic and more generically Norse, and Isolde became Isyllt. The character decided she liked Isyllt and told me to stop being a twit and changing her name. I nearly finished that third incarnation of the book, but finally trunked it.

So Isyllt and some of her friends have lived in my head for nearly 10 years, and they really want a book that is neither generic nor bad.

[ultharkitty.livejournal.com]

After 10 years of waiting, they deserve it ;)

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

Yes, and they're very quick to point out that they deserve it. At great length. They often remind me that it wasn't their fault the last book sucked.

[raecarson.livejournal.com]

High-impact goth dancing! I'm soooo going to try that tonight.