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Sunday Sunday
Jun. 12th, 2011 10:26 pmMy writer's group met today, which was fun and useful, as ever. I also ran into the lady I facetiously call my yoga-class fan (at yoga class, natch), who's finally broken into A Rope of Thorns; she's just past the wedding sequence, and says it's "just as engaging" as A Book of Tongues, which makes me happy. So it's decided: On Monday, in between trying to fill out a grant application and posting the copy of Rope I bought today off to my Dad as a late Father's Day present to Australia, I'll get back on the Tree of Bones horse.
I did have a very tiny revelation today: I think that eventually, Chess is going to pawn his ear-bob, both because it's worthless and painful to him to keep it, and because he frankly needs the money. Naturally, given [current events], he'll have to go through a fair few changes in order to even be able to do that, but...yeah, I can see that scene pretty firmly in my mind. Maybe it's just because I've been reading Patrick DeWitt's black-hilarious Coenesque Western The Sisters Brothers, in which our titular hired killers spend a lot of time worrying about expenses, but it occurs to me that Chess hasn't had to care what things cost in quite a while--it's a good humanizing element.
Otherwise: The file for "Furious Angels" is, as advertised, now firmly over 10,000 words long, though that'll definitely change. People asked me today if Sister Blandina had been a "supermodel" back in the day, and I said I thought she'd been middlingly successful, booking a couple of jobs that made her face fairly recognizable for a brief period; mainly music video work, probably. I have this recurrent image of her being one of those girls you see "gully-creepin' up the midst" in the foreground of a Sean Paul video, wearing a midriff-bearing outfit and looking like they could beat your ass, if it was worth their time. We also briefly discussed what the utility of having Saracen Druir in one scene was, aside from: "Because it's cool." This is a bad reason for doing anything, I know, but I can't get away from it.;)
Anyhow. Here's yet another interview (http://bloodandvegetables.com/2011/06/12/frontier-of-fear-an-interview-with-gemma-files-author-of-a-rope-of-thorns/), conducted by Claire Horsnell, now calling herself bloodandvegetables. And here, OTOH, you can find my story "Signal to Noise", aka That Thing I Couldn't Sell, up at ChiZine (http://www.chizine.com/signal_to_noise.htm). It looks pretty good, if I dare say so myself...
Okay, just waiting for Steve to come home with the shopping, after which it's my turn to cook. Keep well, everybody.
I did have a very tiny revelation today: I think that eventually, Chess is going to pawn his ear-bob, both because it's worthless and painful to him to keep it, and because he frankly needs the money. Naturally, given [current events], he'll have to go through a fair few changes in order to even be able to do that, but...yeah, I can see that scene pretty firmly in my mind. Maybe it's just because I've been reading Patrick DeWitt's black-hilarious Coenesque Western The Sisters Brothers, in which our titular hired killers spend a lot of time worrying about expenses, but it occurs to me that Chess hasn't had to care what things cost in quite a while--it's a good humanizing element.
Otherwise: The file for "Furious Angels" is, as advertised, now firmly over 10,000 words long, though that'll definitely change. People asked me today if Sister Blandina had been a "supermodel" back in the day, and I said I thought she'd been middlingly successful, booking a couple of jobs that made her face fairly recognizable for a brief period; mainly music video work, probably. I have this recurrent image of her being one of those girls you see "gully-creepin' up the midst" in the foreground of a Sean Paul video, wearing a midriff-bearing outfit and looking like they could beat your ass, if it was worth their time. We also briefly discussed what the utility of having Saracen Druir in one scene was, aside from: "Because it's cool." This is a bad reason for doing anything, I know, but I can't get away from it.;)
Anyhow. Here's yet another interview (http://bloodandvegetables.com/2011/06/12/frontier-of-fear-an-interview-with-gemma-files-author-of-a-rope-of-thorns/), conducted by Claire Horsnell, now calling herself bloodandvegetables. And here, OTOH, you can find my story "Signal to Noise", aka That Thing I Couldn't Sell, up at ChiZine (http://www.chizine.com/signal_to_noise.htm). It looks pretty good, if I dare say so myself...
Okay, just waiting for Steve to come home with the shopping, after which it's my turn to cook. Keep well, everybody.
