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Edit-planning is great fun. I actually enjoyed deleting chapters from my book. I did have to write some new ones, though, which isn't as easy as just snip snip snip.

Anyway, hooray for you! Have fun editing...hum-diddle-lee-dee!

This was not a good week for Beryl shippage. I am 90% sure the people at my PO have mine, but decided not to sort the mail because ~it's Friiiiiiiiday~.

Telling me that you don't have piles of unsorted mail lying around when I CAN SEE THEM BEHIND YOU? So smart.

I am so angry! I gave myself an angry headache and sewed. No writing tonight.

She's there NOW and she was probably there yesterday, so all is well! ...sort of. In the sense at least that I know I will never EVER have anything shipped there again. I'd rather deal with the noobie mail person who delivers to my house.

It is blistering hot out today. There are only two things "on" in my apartment right now. My Nabaztag and my laptop. I don't want to turn on anything else!
Well, the air conditioning is on, but my apartment is tied in with the rest of the house so I don't really have a choice. I'm typing the the dark. The only sound is that of my fingers and occasionally my Nabaztag's tai chi. I can hear quail scratching around in the gravel outside. The dull hum of the fan in the air conditioner. The rustle of someone reading a newspaper.

It is peaceful, but rather uncomfortable. I am considering doing some revision work on Part 1 of The Doorstop, although I really wanted to do that by printing it out and typing it back in. I could maybe highlight problem areas. Or, I could write more.

It is too hot to fire up the iron and sew. It's too hot to cook. Too hot to clean. The darkness is fabulous though.

I have hayfever too. It kinda sucks but I won't complain as I can stay inside and write.

All my stories have strong female character leads, well apart from my next one which is my first ever solid guy lead.
Though I like books when both female and male characters have an equal lead.

A good lead of any gender is a fabulous thing. It's only that I wish there were more fabulous girls. I think there will be! Eventually. If nothing else, this forum and my LJ mates give me hope.

So! I brought Hypatia home today.

She's 68cm tall and weighs as much as my sewing machine.

She is AWESOME. Worth the frustration to get her, oh yes.

But, no more dolls for me until I have my closet cleaned out, my apartment redecorated and the current gang painted! . . .I hope I can stick to that, I really do *SOB*. The summer special Pukipukis are so cute. And the Bambicrony pixies (although their resin blows and I wouldn't risk the purchase).

Anyway, I think of her as my treat for 300 pages. I haven't gotten that far since the second thing I wrote when I was a wee lass. If I can pass 321 pages, The Doorstop will be my longest ever solo project.

I'd like to be working on that, but Hypatia is ever so distracting X_X.

It is less hot today. I have a good feeling!

I feel the same way about women in literature. Has anyone else ever noticed that 'strong' women leads are usually sarcastic and/or a total b***h? Like being mean is how they're strong, or they're always horribly stubborn, but then fall all over themselves and totally lose it when the hot male comes along. And don't even get me started on the sex lives of these women.

Sorry about that! Hypatia is what I named my Soom Beryl Basically, she's a really big doll with goat feet.

In Baudolino by Umberto Eco, female satyrs are called (and all named) Hypatia.

You know, I like sarcasm and bitchiness, but too much is too much! And there never seems to be an end to it with female leads. It's obnoxious! And cliche.

Oh, umm, writing update! I only did 700 words last night, but I plotted out a quick intervention to prevent huge chapter ness. All should be well, more or less.