writing about writing is not writing...

[thanate]

Or at least, it's no particular help to my wordcount. At any rate, I'm just above 30k, which is slightly behind my target still/again... I don't seem to manage to get back on track after Wednesdays. Also I spent more of today that might have been ideal wandering around in search of cat food that wasn't half starch and full of veggies.

I find (having read back over portions of last year's novel in an attempt to answer a particular question) that I have sadly misrepresented Caroline's voice; she is full of sharp observations and comparisons to her small town experiences and rather more charming that I'd remembered. I am seriously considering going back to re-write (and condense) some of the earlier chapters anyway, however, and so some of this may come in to play later on. But I have also determined that what I thought was a fairly early event actually is going to happen much later in the story, and so the fact that I have not yet gotten to it is slightly less worrying.

Meanwhile, Caroline has just attended her best friend's wedding and rediscovered that they no longer have anything at all in common. Mara has discovered that the banyan she has been living in has eaten the tree whose fruit grants eternal life (and the fruit with it) and this is only known by a very few self-selecting other people. The exact implications of this are still to be determined, but there's liable to be (sigh) more philosophy about mythology and how inexact it is as history. Mara seems to involve rather a lot of philosophy; possibly this is a side-effect of the fact that she hasn't really talked to anyone in almost a year.

Today, there will be more soup. Possibly with stew bits in.

Comments

[hydecat.livejournal.com]

Do you have a local fancy pet store? We have one that focuses on organic and otherwise awesome pet foods and supplies and the nice thing about them is that you can come in with a vague idea of what you want - like cat food that is more meat than starch - and they can recommend specific brands. In fact, their website is here (http://phydeauxpets.com/) - you could use it to scroll through the foods they offer and check the ingredients lists.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

I did actually find a couple decent options at Petco, it was just that I only went there after trying three different grocery stores where almost everything seemed to have brown rice or wheat as the second ingredient, and big pictures of carrots and tomatoes on the bag.

The only specialty pet store around here that I know of is pretty cool, but it's mainly aquatic oriented.