So I have been hard at work on Cawdor. Putting down the ink-on-paper edits, planning the 1.5 narrative revisions, and I expect it will take me another month to get it ready for my sweetie-wife’s copy-edit pass.

On an older novel front, I got a reply from an agent for the first 10 pages of my previous novel. In all likelyihood he will pass, but hope does spring eternal.

Dealing with a nasty headache, but soon I will my impressions on two films, one new and one old.

I saw a doctor today about my sneeze injury. It hurt like the devil and seemed worse to me, but the doc assured me it was simple muscle injury and it would heal on its own. It would take a while but it would heal.

From the lobby of the hotel:
Last night went pretty well. There was an evening panel on remakes and are they needed anymore. The sole panelist had quite a bit to say on the history of remakes in hollywood and how it has changed over the years.
His final answer were that remakes are not required anymore. (There was a time when film copies were routinely destroyed and remakes were seen as the only way to tell the story again. all pre-TV of course.)
After the panel I toured parties had a few good conversations before turning in for the night.
I rose early this morning, I’ve spent about an hour and half editing on Cawdor.
Now it’s time for day three of the convention.

We do seem to have an internet connection, but it is a bit on the iffy side so I can not be assured of being able to do daily updates.

Today was a pretty good day. Oh the first Panel I went to was a bust. Turned out it was about painting and drawing not writing. I can not paint or draw and new media vs old media in that fight has no meaning to me.
Next I went to “Is Manned Space Travel Gone Forever?” It was a pretty well attended panel, with lively panelists. A panel on the SF movies of 2009 veered wildly off topic — I know, shocking — but still proved to be entertaining. One of the panelists reported that he had interviewed John Frankenhammer director of ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ and that the director totally viewed that classic film as a work of SF.

The best panel of the day was two panelists, Tim Powers and Harry Turtledove, on if history was a help or a hindrance to plotting. These two men riffed together and the room was packed and everyone was entertained.

I saw my first plastered panel at the end of the day. Okay, they weren’t plastered but they both brought scotch to the panel and drank as they discussed horror and taboos.

The day is done, one last panel to attend and then parties.

In less than an hour we depart for Westercon in Pasadena. I have all my essentials packed: clothes, toiletries, and manuscripts for editing.

I’ll be driving half the distance and my wife will be driving the other half, If We don;t have access to the internet see you next week.

Well, I have pretty much recovered from my oral surgery and the fun that it was. I went back to work today, ate pretty much normally, and in general returned to my life.

I have started on Cawdor version 1.5. There will be a few changes and alteration to the manuscript and then I’ll be handing it over to my sweetie wife for copy-editing before it goes to my beat readers. (Gosh, I guess I gotta find some beta readers.)

This ends a perfect month of posting everyday. Go team me!

I may not start of July so strongly. Tomorrow I drive to LA for Westercon and if there is no internet connection I will not be updating over the long holiday weekend.

First draft is done. Total word count is currently 83000 words, but I have some revision and establishment to do so I might add a couple of thousand more word. I expect that I’ll land around 85,000 to 87,000 words.

I feel pretty good despite the surgery of yesterday. A little worn out, a little flush, but finishing a story is always  high.

can’t sleep…..clowns will eat me