sundries

Last night, all night, I dreamed about Patty and I in Britain.

It seems clear that my flight to Zurich will, quite reasonably, involve being on a plane with colleagues. I like the people I work with, but I like my quiet time. I also find flying stressful and physically painful and prefer to do it either with people I'm really close to or alone. And if I get the middle seat because I'm the smallest? I don't even want to think about it.

Started mapping on ConSweet last night using Scrivener. After a I Didn't RTFM moment where I thought I deleted all my work and freaked out (also, sinus headache) and Patty consoled me, I found it all and it worked just fine. So I've made notecards for a couple of key scenes. Have put in a few chapters, and made areas to write about the character arcs for my main folks.

I've already bumped into a few problems to be solved, including the fact that I still need a name for Evan's show, and that Evan, also, still needs a last name. This is a real problem because everything I come up with turns out to be some nobody in IMDB, and I have to come up with something that doesn't match that of anyone working in this damn business).

I'm also realizing Hope is feeling a bit underdeveloped, so I need to get more in touch with her. Thing I just solved it. Question: how... I'm not sure how to phrase this. Basically this book isn't going to be graphic (it's chick lit, so it mostly fades to black), but it's totally sex-positive. Does that work under the rules of chick lit? Or does the girl who has casual sex (and a lot of it) in non-toxic (i.e., not drunk, not unsafe, not breaking agreements) have to be some sort of "evil slut." Because she's not, and I'm not changing that, but I'm wondering how large of a wall to beat my head against I just created.

Additionally, since emails, texts and twitters are going to be various key plot points, I should probably nab a bunch of accounts so I don't have to change all this shit later, and also decide on how to format this in the text. I should possibly also register some sort of domain for my anonymous gossip site villain thing. Can a website be a villain?

I really want to write a tiny bit pre-NaNo so I can put up an excerpt on my NaNo site, as I have this fantasy that I'll be one of the lucky books to have a cover designed for it, and that will propel me into publishing success.

Anyway, Scrivener, people! Get Macs. Use this! It's gotta be utterly gorgeous for cowriting too.

I've been doing a lot of freelance writing about film festivals lately. This is not scintillating.

Despite the notices in our building dated October 8 saying three business days, my fucking rent check still hasn't been processed through. Tonight is the tenant's association meeting, so as much as I don't want to go, I will to find out more about what is going on in general and what to expect and so forth. I hate being a grown up sometimes. Last night I even did laundry so we could have more warm blankets on the bed (that turned out to be very good). But hey, the heat is on (and, knock on wood, in a leak-free way, so that's a pleasant surprise).

Gamely battling the monthly PMS-induced pothos thing. I hate the fragile ego of my ambition.

Have what promises to be an amusing afternoon actorly interlude today.

Yup, know about the diet ads that should not be running on my frigging site. Working on it with AdSense.

And now, work to do!