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kinzelLate this afternoon I talk a walk, dressed in my hunting orange, toward the end of road we live on. Before I'd gone a tenth of a mile there were 5 shotgun blasts, all within the zone I consider "far too close" to home...
so I walked home, and found -- as I expected -- Rolanni waiting for me on the deck, all but tapping her feet over my decision to take a walk during hunting season, when I know better, dammit.
And so we'll hope the basement is dry enough to permit the treadmill to function, and I'll get back in the exercise habit... despite the rain, and despite the shooter violating the law. I *really* deplore the people who want to hunt from the shoulder of the road.
But, also this afternoon, came our authors copies of Sword of Orion, a sure sign that a bookstore somewhere is selling them ahead of the official November 10 release date BN.com is citing. Also today, news that the long-awaited Hal Clement Award parchment will be here on Thursday, assuming the delivery folks don't forget where we live.
Meanwhile, I've maybe solved the problem with the story I've been mumbling at off and on for a month, and it involves not adding a scene nor adding characters...but giving our protagonist a little longer to sit back and watch the pretty people. I hope that's all I need to do, because this needs done so the novel can get moving again.
so I walked home, and found -- as I expected -- Rolanni waiting for me on the deck, all but tapping her feet over my decision to take a walk during hunting season, when I know better, dammit.
And so we'll hope the basement is dry enough to permit the treadmill to function, and I'll get back in the exercise habit... despite the rain, and despite the shooter violating the law. I *really* deplore the people who want to hunt from the shoulder of the road.
But, also this afternoon, came our authors copies of Sword of Orion, a sure sign that a bookstore somewhere is selling them ahead of the official November 10 release date BN.com is citing. Also today, news that the long-awaited Hal Clement Award parchment will be here on Thursday, assuming the delivery folks don't forget where we live.
Meanwhile, I've maybe solved the problem with the story I've been mumbling at off and on for a month, and it involves not adding a scene nor adding characters...but giving our protagonist a little longer to sit back and watch the pretty people. I hope that's all I need to do, because this needs done so the novel can get moving again.
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Sword of Orion soon
2005-10-24 22:14 (UTC)Tom
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2005-10-25 07:36 (UTC)There are people who understand guns and how to use them. And then there are hunters who come up from the city with no idea that "woods" can be a narrow strip of trees fronting someone's yard, and that just because something's moving doesn't make it a deer.
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2005-10-25 21:24 (UTC)Tricia