My Easter Monday: A Synopsis

[velvetpage]

What I Did with my last day off for six weeks:

1) I wrote a thousand words of my dolphin book, and posted it. It's a good start. It doesn't matter that I have only the vaguest idea what happens next. I'm happy with what happened in that scene.

2) I coached page_4 through some tough emotional stuff. Be nice to her, everyone, she's had a rough weekend.

3) I finally got page_4 to set up a livejournal. Hi, Heather! *waves*

4) I let Elizabeth cry it out for her nap this afternoon. Stay tuned for the evening edition in about fifteen minutes.

5) I ordered Swiss Chalet for dinner. It was yummy. Elizabeth disagreed. She only ate the bun - after licking the butter off it.

6) After typing #5, I went downstairs at the behest of my husband. He had been lying on the couch with Elizabeth on his tummy, talking to her, when she threw up. On his face. Into his open mouth. (Have I grossed everyone out yet?) So Elizabeth and I came upstairs to get cleaned up while Daddy did the same downstairs. She's now fulfilling the prediction in #4.

7) I made a concerted effort to set up a pub night for some friends and I. anguine and artisticblur, have you got the emails yet? We've tentatively settled on the Firkin's at Bloor and Islington, April 8th, between 7 and 7:30, for anyone who can get there from the two gaming groups. Oh, and anidada, you're welcome too if you want to come. Ditto Senora Bitter. It's a gamers' social evening rather than an evening of social gaming. :)

8) Caught up on some emails with a friend. Clarified some of my thinking around issues at work in the process. That's always nice. The clarification, not the issues. I could do without those.

That's just about it. I hate listening to my little girl cry it out. At least I know she's unlikely to throw up again.

And it's back to work tomorrow. Oh, joy.

G'night, everyone.

Comments

[anidada.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if we'll be able to wrangle babysitting, but thanks for the invitation! :)

[jordangreywolf.livejournal.com]

Howdy! pyat directed me to check out your LJ. He indicates that you have been writing stories involving creatures of the high seas and all that, and that if I were curious, I should head on by. =) (And judging from this entry, it seems you're at least writing something about dolphins. Keen!)

Re: Item #6 - Oh my. =/ Obviously, poor Elizabeth is having a troublesome time, but I particularly feel badly for Pyat. Ouch, ouch, ouch.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

I keep meaning to mosey on by your journal and invite you onto my friends list. Thanks for saving me the trouble. :)

So do you want onto my writing filter, then?

BTW, my dolphins aren't like your dolphins. THey don't have feet, for example. I'm not basing this book in an Ironclaw setting. Still, from what little I know of you, I think you'd like it.

[jordangreywolf.livejournal.com]

Actually, given my preferences, the Ironclaw dolphins wouldn't have had feet either. It's just that in the Ironclaw rulebook, one of the main section illustrations showed a scene of two elementalists - a bear and a dolphin - squaring off, and the dolphin was portrayed as having legs. So, since that was published in the rule book and all, I figured that was the precedent I would have to stick by for drawing any other dolphins. (Though, I suppose Pyat could have decided - or could still decide - to make dolphins minus the legs. None of the doodles I've drawn have appeared in any official Ironclaw publications, so it's not like my own drawings set any precedent - and the one picture of a dolphin spellcaster could be an aberration: Maybe he's got a spell that grants him magical "legs" for when he goes to visit the land-dwellers! ;) )

Anyway, sure, I'd love to see your writings! =)

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

You're on the writing filter. If you go back a couple of days in my journal, you'll find chapter one.

Frankly, I don't want my book to mirror Ironclaw at all, because I want to be able to approach bigger publishers with it. My first book, which is definitely based on Ironclaw, will have a very small print run because I pretty much have to go through Sanguine - Jason owns the rights to the world. I can handle that; it takes the pressure off for a first novel. But the second one - it's going to be bigger, and the world is mine. No copyright infringement happening here.

So if someone wants to use my ideas later to do a High Seas supplement, they'll be welcome to do so - but on the understanding that they're getting permission from me to use my copyrighted material, not the other way around.