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[elingregory]

I have so little gpoing on on the mental front right now that I'm

In 2012, elin_gregory resolves to...

Get back in contact with some old anglo-saxons.
Ask my boss for a scythia.
Eat more marine artists.
Become a better sculpture.
Cut down on my betaing.
Stop writing with erastes.

Get your own New Year's Resolutions:

Actually, it's a displacement activity. Trying to revise and rerwrite a sex scene is hard enough when feeling well. Right now I can't help but feel I'm making it worse.

Still - EDITING. Your actual proper editing. They say you should try and enjoy all the first times so I am.

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[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

As long as you've had long enough since sending the book in to grow fond of it again, real proper editing is quite good fun, I think. It's when I just can't stand to read those sentences one more time that it becomes a bit of a chore.

In 2012, alex_beecroft (http://alex_beecroft.livejournal.com) resolves to...

Apply for a new fiction.
Start a slash fund.
Give up sailing.
Ask my boss for a stoneage.
Stop sewing with ennorwen.
Eat more swords.

Get your own New Year's Resolutions (http://thesurrealist.co.uk/newyear):

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

Eat more swords

:)

There was a brilliant TV show last night about the Staffordshire hoard [I so want to go and see that]. The big cabochon garnets had come from India! And this bloke made a seax! It was gorgeous - all ripply with a shark tooth pattern strengthening the spine of it. If I was 30 years younger [and had the dosh] I'd be so tempted by the experimental archaeology degree course at Exeter Uni.

As long as you've had long enough since sending the book in to grow fond of it again ...

I think that's a very important point. I'm reading this again, properly, for the first time since about September and am cautiously pleased with some of it and quietly appalled at other bits - how can I mispell my own characters' names fcol? - and I think I would be enjoying it if I didn't have a head full of red hot cotton wool and a Friday deadline.

But the point you make may explain why an author friend regularly sends me his galley proofs to read. His publisher seems to have a very fast turnaround on their books and he's always cramming his writing and betaing right up to the deadline for the call so maybe he doesn't have that all important cooling off period? He asked me to do one on Tuesday but I've had to turn him down. I'd just be too unreliable.

[jessie-lansdel.livejournal.com]

Oooh, don't let age put you off getting a degree. I was erm, 46 when I went to UEA as a (very) mature student in 2002. But you're right, it is expensive. I'm still paying off debts. :-( and another thing I discovered, I went right off history. Honest. It ceased to be a pleasure and something I'd loved for YEARS and became a chore. But my love for it magically returned a year or two later.

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

I did the degree thing with the OU years ago, but the Exeter course is fantastic and goes to MA. Great fun. Ah well, maybe if I win the lottery?

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! I miss all the good TV these days because the girls are in charge of it. That does sound good, and trade routes with India, eh? That's interesting.

*g* I remember when I studied the Anglo Saxons at uni, pattern welding was referred to as a lost art. It's good to know it's been found again. It sounded so magical, and the blades look so amazing. Our teacher also claimed that most Saxon blades were put through some sort of chemical process that made them reddish, so the pattern welding stood out in silver. I've never heard of that since, and I wonder now whether she made it up.

Oh, I feel sorry for your author friend - it really can be quite soul destroying to go through four drafts of writing on a book and then have to edit it three more times and then proof it for good measure. I'm always glad of the break between acceptance of contract and editing so I can come to it new.

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'm going to get much of a gap with mine. I had to have the first batch of content edits back on Friday [lord knows whether I made it worse or not] and it's due to go to the copy editor on February the first. All very exciting though :D and it's not as though it's a long story.