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A Real Nice Gal Is Sally
Jun. 4th, 2012 11:33 amI'm pretty close to being finished with my edit/rewrite of an Oz manuscript I've been working on for almost twenty years. My working title is The Giant Rabbit of Oz, because Wag from Kabumpo in Oz is a character in it, but he turned out to be not all that major. I might well end up going with another title. Anyway, I wasn't satisfied with the ending I wrote, but I'm not sure the new one is much better. I suppose I'll have to get people to look at both versions and let me know which they like better, or if neither one works. I'm terrible at endings, and I keep wanting to introduce new plot threads that I then have to resolve. I edited out quite a bit of extraneous stuff this time around, but it's probably still overly complicated in parts. When I read books that contain continuity errors, I always wonder how something so obvious could have gotten through. It really can be difficult to keep track of everything you've written before, though. Mind you, that's what editors are for, but the original Oz books were very barely edited. Well, except for The Wonder City of Oz, and that edit reportedly added as much weirdness as it removed. I'm still putting off editing Prince Pompadore in Oz based on suggestions I've gotten from people, but should probably get on that pretty soon. I'm using the fact that I haven't heard feedback from one of my test readers as an excuse to procrastinate.
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bethje and I went to Manhattan to see Jordan Cooper's band Sally, which was cool. I actually recognized a few of the songs from the Internet. Their set included a cover of the They Might Be Giants song "Narrow Your Eyes," which fit into the mix quite well, as they played a lot of breakup songs. Kristen played the melodica during the solo part, where John Linnell plays an accordion on the original.
During the past few days, I've been taking a break from The Sims 3 and getting back into The Sims Medieval, although that game comes off as rather too easy and uneventful, since you're pretty much always told what to do.lozenger8 recently mentioned that she found it too easy, and hence hasn't played it in a long time. I've also checked out the Space Quest Collection, and found it amusing but really frustrating. Well, at least the first two games are, and I'm going to assume that didn't change much for the later ones.
Last night,
bethje and I went to Manhattan to see Jordan Cooper's band Sally, which was cool. I actually recognized a few of the songs from the Internet. Their set included a cover of the They Might Be Giants song "Narrow Your Eyes," which fit into the mix quite well, as they played a lot of breakup songs. Kristen played the melodica during the solo part, where John Linnell plays an accordion on the original.During the past few days, I've been taking a break from The Sims 3 and getting back into The Sims Medieval, although that game comes off as rather too easy and uneventful, since you're pretty much always told what to do.
lozenger8 recently mentioned that she found it too easy, and hence hasn't played it in a long time. I've also checked out the Space Quest Collection, and found it amusing but really frustrating. Well, at least the first two games are, and I'm going to assume that didn't change much for the later ones.
