April 13, 2006
Fuzzy
Gratuitous cat picture
I also have a shot of this one trying to fit his enormous butt into a very small box, but I'll spare you.
Flickr's April Fool's joke was to have their random "interesting" pictures be all cat pictures. Am I the only one who found the cat pictures more interesting than the usual slew of sunsets, pictures of sulky models, and landscapes with falling down barns?
Ah, well, even a whole battalion of falling down barns is more interesting than editing patents. I finished the big one today. Yay! While I was putting on the final touches (e.g. obsessing over the use of the word "restriction" vs. "regulation"), the same client emailed me with another patent. Different subject matter, thank the gods, but not the slackest deadline either. Whine, whine. But. Money. So I accepted it.
In the meantime, my fun editing has been going well. Yesterday I breezed by the halfway mark on editing The Egyptian Building. I've had to mark a few spots which need a little more writing (elaboration here, replace a boring spot with something shorter there), but the editing part has been fun. A couple days ago, though, I found a long stretch of chirpy cute dialogue. The question: How annoying is this? I was wondering whether to delete this and replace it with a couple paragraphs of exposition. Oz said, "Oh, leave it." He's the beta reader; if he's willing to deal with it, I'm willing to delete it later.
Speaking of which, I have more words to delete.
260 words | April 13, 2006 09:48 PM | Writer's block