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kateelliottI am back home after 6 days in Seattle visiting my ailing mother-in-law. I meant to get work done yesterday since my flight got in reasonably early, but managed only to unpack and do laundry and clean the kitchen (kindly left for me by certain unnamed persons).
The vog today is quite bad.
(Added: vog is volcanic fog, that is, the murky sulphuric haze burped by the volcano on the Big Island which can get particularly bad when the volcano is actively burping a lot AND when the trade winds, which blow out of the east, aren't blowing the vog west into the Pacific.)
So bad is the vog today that, in fact, I have closed all my jalousies and turned on the ac. It's not hot, but I'm hoping the filter will help the air? I will head to the gym, and then work at Starbucks, anything to avoid tasting the air. The trade winds are meant to return tomorrow, which should blow off the vog.
Meanwhile, more questions to answer and more work on the icepunk novel. I'm still revising chapters 10 - 14, which will bring me to the halfway point of the novel. I then have to write the second half, although since this is a chase novel the plot is already fairly well defined.
I should note, if I have not already said so, that the icepunk novels are written in first person. (A few of you may have heard me read aloud the first scene at Devention.) I decided to write it in first person as an experiment in writing a shorter (read: normal length rather than monstrous length) novel.
Writing multi point of view third limited, especially when one is juggling 6 - 10 points of view, does tend to expand the length of a novel. First person? Single point of view! That's the ticket.
The vog today is quite bad.
(Added: vog is volcanic fog, that is, the murky sulphuric haze burped by the volcano on the Big Island which can get particularly bad when the volcano is actively burping a lot AND when the trade winds, which blow out of the east, aren't blowing the vog west into the Pacific.)
So bad is the vog today that, in fact, I have closed all my jalousies and turned on the ac. It's not hot, but I'm hoping the filter will help the air? I will head to the gym, and then work at Starbucks, anything to avoid tasting the air. The trade winds are meant to return tomorrow, which should blow off the vog.
Meanwhile, more questions to answer and more work on the icepunk novel. I'm still revising chapters 10 - 14, which will bring me to the halfway point of the novel. I then have to write the second half, although since this is a chase novel the plot is already fairly well defined.
I should note, if I have not already said so, that the icepunk novels are written in first person. (A few of you may have heard me read aloud the first scene at Devention.) I decided to write it in first person as an experiment in writing a shorter (read: normal length rather than monstrous length) novel.
Writing multi point of view third limited, especially when one is juggling 6 - 10 points of view, does tend to expand the length of a novel. First person? Single point of view! That's the ticket.