Morning?

Got too little sleep last night. Had planned to be asleep by 4:00 am (my definition of going to bed 'early') but it was actually past seven am when I finally fell asleep.

I'm still on my first coffee so I'm not really awake yet. Must fix that. I want to be semi-alert for the party this evening. I also need to get to sleep at a much more reasonable time tonight as sps is visiting here tomorrow, and it would assist muchly in the socializing if was actually awake and coherent when he got here.

Plans for the day consist of a bit more catching up on things that were neglected this last month, as well as selecting the one-page excerpt from my novel to take to the NaNoWriMo party. I thought I had a good bit chosen, but it turned out closer to four pages. I shall have to search again.

Turkey City Lexicon

The Turkey City Lexicon is a list of writing workshop terms for common features in Science Fiction writing. Many of these are terms for mistakes. Since my novel is SF/Erotica and November is over, I've been looking at things like this list, to assist with the necessary editing. I am distressed to say that my novel is probably guilty of about a dozen of the sins mentioned in the lexicon. Admitedly in two cases, that was the result of a deliberate decision on my part, that I stand by. In the other cases, I can only plead inexperience and writing in a rush. Some of these I already knew about and was already planning to fix. Some I hadn't realized I was doing. After a quick read-through the list it would appear that my novel suffers, to one degree or another, from:

• Brenda Starr dialogue

• Brand Name Fever

• Not Simultaneous

• "Said" Bookism

• Tom Swifty

• Bathos

• Countersinking

• Dischism

• Fuzz

• Show, not Tell

• White Room Syndrome

• Wiring Diagram Fiction

• You Can't Fire Me, I Quit

• The Cozy Catastrophe

• Deus ex Machina or "God in the Box"

• The Grubby Apartment Story

• The Kitchen-Sink Story

• The "Poor Me" Story

• Bogus Alternatives

• Frontloading

• Infodump

Some of these problems will be much harder to fix than others.

NaNo Wrap Up.

I just got back from the NaNoWriMo wrap party, where I read an excerpt of my story. It got a sufficiently good response that I've decided to publish it here:

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