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Sep. 15th, 2004 12:58 amToday was the day of the Minneapolis primary election, so I went and voted. Turnout was higher than I would have expected. I once voted in a school board primary at about 6 p.m., and was the 34th person to show up at the polling place that day. Or something similarly absurd. I voted today at about 6:15 and was #250 or so.
Then I dropped my bike off to have it tuned up and repaired. With some encouragement from Ed, I've started biking semi-regularly. After a couple of weeks of this, I'm feeling committed enough to the whole "exercise" thing that I didn't feel like it was a complete waste of money to have my bike overhauled.
Work on the new novel has been running hot and cold. One day it's going GREAT, I'll crank out a thousand words. The next day I find myself completely stuck and have to backtrack. At this point, I have about 7,700 words written. If I keep all of them, and if I did my math correctly, that's about 8% of a first draft. I didn't get a lot done tonight, despite having all sorts of ideas while walking home from the bike shop.
I actually have a question, for those who have read Freedom's Gate. If you could spend more time with any one of the Alashi, in the third book, which one would you pick? Please choose someone who is alive at the end of book one, as dead people have to stay dead. Also, you can feel free to choose a male character, or someone we see only briefly -- it doesn't have to be someone who's in the Sword Sisterhood. Tamar and Lauria are a given. They're in the story whether you like it or not.
Then I dropped my bike off to have it tuned up and repaired. With some encouragement from Ed, I've started biking semi-regularly. After a couple of weeks of this, I'm feeling committed enough to the whole "exercise" thing that I didn't feel like it was a complete waste of money to have my bike overhauled.
Work on the new novel has been running hot and cold. One day it's going GREAT, I'll crank out a thousand words. The next day I find myself completely stuck and have to backtrack. At this point, I have about 7,700 words written. If I keep all of them, and if I did my math correctly, that's about 8% of a first draft. I didn't get a lot done tonight, despite having all sorts of ideas while walking home from the bike shop.
I actually have a question, for those who have read Freedom's Gate. If you could spend more time with any one of the Alashi, in the third book, which one would you pick? Please choose someone who is alive at the end of book one, as dead people have to stay dead. Also, you can feel free to choose a male character, or someone we see only briefly -- it doesn't have to be someone who's in the Sword Sisterhood. Tamar and Lauria are a given. They're in the story whether you like it or not.
