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So here’s the deal: I have a tendency to think I’m not writing. There are a couple of stretches in my life where I honestly thought I hadn’t written a damn word, until we moved and I went through all my files and found all the things I’d been working on.

That said, I don’t do well with daily word goals. I do better with page goals (when working on a book, I try to do 3-5 pages a day), but even then they need to be guidelines more than rules. Recently it’s been a lot of short stuff, so my goals are usually write the scene with the monkey and the hole punch or dear god, untangle that paragraph before it kills us all.


But in order to not beat myself up, I do need to keep a log. And I thought I’d go ahead and attempt to do that here on LJ, because why not. I’ll probably link to it on WP, but not mirror it.

We’ll see how it goes. If you scroll past, I will not blame you.



Laura’s Writing Log

So, Laura, what did you do today?

No actual writing, but I did slog my way through a chunk of the last research book. I hate this book, have I mentioned?

What did you do that you’re telling yourself is work?


Putting stuff on Springpad. This is my foreseeable future. Once it's there, I have to decide how to tag it. Oh frabjous day!

Anything interesting to report?


Nope.
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My Soon-to-be Standard Disclaimer:

So here’s the deal: I have a tendency to think I’m not writing. There are a couple of stretches in my life where I honestly thought I hadn’t written a damn word, until we moved and I went through all my files and found all the things I’d been working on.

That said, I don’t do well with daily word goals. I do better with page goals (when working on a book, I try to do 3-5 pages a day), but even then they need to be guidelines more than rules. Recently it’s been a lot of short stuff, so my goals are usually write the scene with the monkey and the hole punch or dear god, untangle that paragraph before it kills us all.

But in order to not beat myself up, I do need to keep a log. And I thought I’d go ahead and attempt to do that here on LJ, because why not. I’ll probably link to it on WP, but not mirror it.

We’ll see how it goes. If you scroll past, I will not blame you.


Laura’s Writing Log

So, Laura, what did you do today?  Writing?  Revisions?

Hmmm ... well, I reworked the last scene of a story that will probably never see the outside of my hard drive, because it is very self-indulgent.  But I'm okay with that, because I've mostly been working on it to just keep myself writing while the part of my brain that tells me about Corwyn and Gwen grows back.  In theory, I was also supposed to be doing research ...

Research?

Yeah, not much going there--I HATE THE BOOK I'M GOING THROUGH.  The last one was so easy to read, and this one is not.

But.  It has to be done.  Even a staff person such as I only gets so many renewals at the library.

Submissions?

Stuff is out, and I'm waiting.

What did you do that you’re telling yourself is work?

Downloaded and started making notebooks on Springpad--I think it's going to be really nice for research, actually.  It's like Pinterest, but I can clip articles and make notes and to-do lists.  And apparently, once I let it eat my soul, it'll do all sorts of crazy things like alert me when stuff I want to buy goes on sale, or when a book I like comes out, or or or or ...

But first, I slowly start compiling my Teachout net-based research.

Anything interesting to report?

Nope.  But I need a nap pretty desperately right now.
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Do you know how hard it is to try and research what types of fabric were used in the 19th century?  I mean, it's a small detail, and it's a throwaway line, and it's alternate history, anyway--but while that means I could probably say that denim came into widespread use in (as a totally fake example because I don't have my notes in front of me and I feel lazy right now), say, 1850 rather than the (totally fake, again, making it up) actual date of 1887, I don't want to do something akin to dressing a character in polyester in 1850.

Anyway, I decided to hop on the library database since Google was doing me no favors ... and while, in the end, my lovely costume-designer friend, David, was way more of a help in a Facebook comment than either the databases or Google (not to mention various other folk--make friends with librarians and intellectuals, y'all, it pays off), I did find what may be my favorite article title ever:  "'Fighting the Corsetless Evil': Shaping Corsets and Culture, 1900-1930."  Here, have a quote from the abstract:

"Manufacturers and retailers instituted new merchandising tactics to resist the 'corsetless evil' and disseminated pro-corset ideologies culled from dominant discourses about race, nation, and female inferiority. "Scientific" methods of corset-fitting blamed discomfort on fit rather than on the garment itself."

"Pro-corset ideologies."  This is lovely.  Since I've read numerous modern articles claiming that if a bra is uncomfortable, you're wearing one that doesn't fit, I am filled with thought and speculation, now ...

Oh, and damn, I was actually going to research the history of the brassiere and forgot.  Note to self.


Look, kids, cite your sources!  The above quote is from ...

Fields, Jill. "`Fighting The Corsetless Evil': Shaping Corsets And Culture, 1900-1930." Journal Of Social History 33.2 (1999): 355. America: History and Life with Full Text. Web. 24 June 2013.

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