Best Laid Plans
Apr. 25th, 2007 12:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
handful_ofdustOkay, as a complete placeholder, here's the basic TBD list for the next little while:
A) Just sent off the first-draft Internet/radio script for the "David and David Audio Project" (an adaptation of Ray Russell's short story "The Cage"). This now frees me up to keep working on a first-draft script of my own "In the Poor Girl…" (due by May);
B) Need to write 250 more trivia questions (ASAP—-full 800 due by August);
C) Finish what will hopefully be the final rewrite of "The Speed of Pain" (ASAP), going by notes made after seeing it posted on IPSTP Day;
D) Write "Marya Nox", new 4,000-word short story, for ChiZine/Leisure Short Story Contest (due by June);
E) Finish "Words Written Backwards" for Burning Effigy (due by June);
F) Print out Lilim scriptment/novel outline, write formal query letter, finish revising Chapter One and print it out, send to Leisure Books (ASAP);
G) Write three-pagers and outlines for Nobody, the novel, and The Speed of Pain, the novel (ASAP);
H) Fix up "Loop" (ASAP);
I) Send out "The Jacaranda Smile" (ASAP);
J) Finish "Strange Weight" (ASAP).
My original TBD list also had "mark school crap" (didn't get done, needs to get done by Thursday) and "check re whether handouts need to go in for school" (didn't get done, can get done tomorrow). Plus BodyCombat. But I did do Flow tonight, at least. Go me!
The list of stuff I'd love to respond to and write about that isn't stuff I personally generated is getting progressively longer, but I'm afraid it won't be happening anytime soon. Sorry. And as for the rest of what happened today...had a very sanguine trip to the Dentist (my gums looked like 28 Days Later afterward), and Cal did a lot of his spankin' new "I don't like that! I will howl and flop on the floor, even when 'the floor' is the middle of the street!" routine. It is much fun, in another dimension.;)
And now, bed. Bed bed bed bed bed.
A) Just sent off the first-draft Internet/radio script for the "David and David Audio Project" (an adaptation of Ray Russell's short story "The Cage"). This now frees me up to keep working on a first-draft script of my own "In the Poor Girl…" (due by May);
B) Need to write 250 more trivia questions (ASAP—-full 800 due by August);
C) Finish what will hopefully be the final rewrite of "The Speed of Pain" (ASAP), going by notes made after seeing it posted on IPSTP Day;
D) Write "Marya Nox", new 4,000-word short story, for ChiZine/Leisure Short Story Contest (due by June);
E) Finish "Words Written Backwards" for Burning Effigy (due by June);
F) Print out Lilim scriptment/novel outline, write formal query letter, finish revising Chapter One and print it out, send to Leisure Books (ASAP);
G) Write three-pagers and outlines for Nobody, the novel, and The Speed of Pain, the novel (ASAP);
H) Fix up "Loop" (ASAP);
I) Send out "The Jacaranda Smile" (ASAP);
J) Finish "Strange Weight" (ASAP).
My original TBD list also had "mark school crap" (didn't get done, needs to get done by Thursday) and "check re whether handouts need to go in for school" (didn't get done, can get done tomorrow). Plus BodyCombat. But I did do Flow tonight, at least. Go me!
The list of stuff I'd love to respond to and write about that isn't stuff I personally generated is getting progressively longer, but I'm afraid it won't be happening anytime soon. Sorry. And as for the rest of what happened today...had a very sanguine trip to the Dentist (my gums looked like 28 Days Later afterward), and Cal did a lot of his spankin' new "I don't like that! I will howl and flop on the floor, even when 'the floor' is the middle of the street!" routine. It is much fun, in another dimension.;)
And now, bed. Bed bed bed bed bed.
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Date: 2007-04-25 09:21 am (UTC)On the assumption that it won't kill you or leave you gibbering in a corner: I am looking forward to reading all of these that can be read. (Pace Ray Rossell, I am unlikely to listen to the audio project.) I loved "The Speed of Pain" and the way it uses "The Emperor's Old Bones" as a text within itself.
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Date: 2007-04-25 11:13 am (UTC)The Internet/radio stuff is going to be very interesting, I believe. I know it's not for everyone, but I remember those classic radio horrors--"The Chicken Heart", et al--and it occurs to me that because they spin so much on the listeners' imaginations, there's the potential to be strangely more faithful to the source material than a visual adaptation ever can be.