of weddings and worm kings

[thanate]

I've been reading back over my unfinished novel of mice, and came across the sentence: Jo felt as if they had become paleontologists, encasing casing fragmenting rock in plaster for the trip to the lab. which makes no sense at all. Aside from a bunch of these small details, I find that my suspension of disbelief works a great deal better while reading than while writing. Or possibly even that some of the forced plot points aren't actually as bad as I thought they were. I may, however, have to tidy up a few of the introductions of characters so that they have less in common with Anyone We Know.

Meanwhile, I have ordered 10 yards of silk, and paid less than half what they were asking for any of the crazy acetate bridal gowns I tried on, and with some luck and attention to detail, I may even end up with something I find far more attractive. We shall see. (oh, plus a matching vest and cravat for grauwulf) It almost looks like progress...

Other than that, about the most I have to report is that I measured my hair and discovered that in fact I have about 3.5 feet of it. In case anyone was wondering. This week *could* have been more productive.

Comments

[skittblink.livejournal.com]

Are you actually really really making your own wedding dress? That sounds difficult.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

No more so than making any other nice piece of clothing. Much as I love ball gowns, I've decided that I don't really want to wear one. Odd, isn't it? So really the only problem is that the patterns that most resemble what I want are all size 8 or smaller from the 1970s, and so I need to do proper re-fitting things to create a new pattern. If I had a dress form, this would be much easier...

So, are you going to the Palimpsest launch party (http://sjtucker.com/newyork.php) tomorrow? nudge, nudge...